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VI Semester B.A. History
HIS6 B14 INDIAN HERITAGE AND PLURALITY OF CULTURES
Multiple Choice Questions

1. Silsilah is
(a) Sufi master
(b) Sufi order
(c) Sufi philosophy
(d) Sufi music

2. Who was the immediate successor of Guru Nanak?

(a) Guru Tegh Bahadur
(b) Guru Arjan Dev
(c) Guru Arjan Dev
(d) Guru Angad Dev

3. Where was Kabir Das born?

(a) Amritsar
(b) Varanasi
(c) Kanpur
(d) Mathura

4. Who is the author of Gitagovinda?

(a) Adi Shankara
(b) Mirabai
(c) Jayadava
(d) Madhavacharya

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5. Sarais were
(a) Resting places for travellers
(b) Government offices
(c) Libraries
(d) Royal roads

6. Razm-nama is
(a) Persian translation of Ramayana
(b) Arabic translation of Mahabharata
(c) Persian translation of Mahabharata
(d) Arabic translation of Ramayana

7. Surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage is
called
(a) Calligraphy
(b) Arabesque
(c) Arching
(d) Pietra dura

8. Who completed the construction of Qutub-minar?

(a) Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kalki
(b) Razia Sultana
(c) Firoz Shah
(d) Iltutmish

9. Who is the author of Majma-ul-Bahrain?

(a) Abul Fazl
(b) Shahjahan

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(c) Al- Biruni

(d) Dara Shikho

10. Name the journal of Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangam.

(a) Manglodayam
(b) Vivekodayam
(c) Sadhu Paripalini
(d) Dharma Paripalini

11. Who preached Visishtadwaita?

(a) Nimbarka
(b) Ramanuja
(c) Adi Shankara
(d) Madhava

12. Gol Gumbaz is situated at

(a) Kanpur
(b) Lucknow
(c) Bijapur
(d) Hyderabad

13. Who wrote Gulamgiri?

(a) Atmaram Pandurang
(b) Dayananda Saraswati
(c) Jyotiba Phule
(d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

14. Which of the following Indians participated in all three round table conferences?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) B. R. Ambedkar

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(c) Jawaharlal Nehru

(d) Vallabhai Patel

15. When did the Indian Constituent assembly adopt the constitution?
(a) 26 January 1949
(b) 26 November 1950
(c) 26 January 1950
(d) 26 November 1949

16. Vaishnava bhakti saints of South India were called

(a) Alvars
(b) Nirgranthas
(c) Nayanars
(d) Nirguna

17. When did the Constituent Assembly met for the first time?
(a) 1946
(b) 1947
(c) 1945
(d) 1948

18. How many languages have been recognized by Indian Constitution?

(a) 28
(b) 26
(c) 22
(d) 23

19. Who founded the Satyashodhak Samaj?

(a) Dayananda Saraswati
(b) Tarabai Shinde

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(c) Jyotiba Phule

(d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

20. The famous Villuvandi Samaram (Bullock cart strike) was organised in the year of
(a) 1893
(b) 1899
(c) 1912
(d) 1915

21. Who wrote Stri Purush Tulana?

(a) Pandita Ramabai
(b) Savitri Phule
(c) Tarabai Shinde
(d) Annie Besant

22. Who among the following was the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
(b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(c) Sardar Patel
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

23. The Emergency provisions in the Constitution of India has been borrowed from the
(a) Constitution of Russia
(b) Constitution of Germany
(c) Constitution of the U.S.A
(d) Constitution of U. K.

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24. Find the correct statement(s).

1. Ancuvannam is a mediaeval commercial guild largely active in south India and made
up of non-Indian businessmen.
2. The Ancuvannam merchant guild, together with Manigramam and Ainnurruvar,
played a significant role in the region's commercial operations.

(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) neither 1 nor 2

25. Who preached Adwaita?

(a) Guru Nanak
(b) Nimbarka
(c) Adi Shankara
(d) Ramanuja

26. The second largest dome in the world is

(a) Dome of St Peter's Basilica in Rome
(b) Dome of Gol Gumbaz
(c) Dome of Humayun’s tomb
(d) Dome of Taj Mahal

27. The original document of the Constitution of India was handwritten by _____.
(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(c) Prem Behari Narain Raizada
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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28. Which of the following is not part of Ashtangamarga?

(a) Proper livelihood
(b) Proper action
(c) Proper lineage
(d) Proper vision

29. Which copper plate describes the rights and benefits accorded to Jewish leader Joseph
Rabban?
(a) Judapattayam
(b) Tharisapalli copper plate
(c) Mamballi Plates
(d) Thiruvalangadu plates

30. Who is the founder of Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangam?

(a) Sree Narayana Guru
(b) Thycaud Ayyavu Swamikal
(c) Ayyankali
(d) Dr. Palpu

31. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam is found in

(a) Atharva Veda
(b) Maha Upanishad
(c) Arthasastra
(d) None of the above

32. Gulamgiri was published in the year of

(a) 1885
(b) 1892

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(c) 1854
(d)1899

33. Which among the following is NOT listed as a Fundamental Duty in the constitution of
India?
(a) To protect the sovereignty of India
(b) To abide by the constitution
(c) To safeguard public property
(d) To pay taxes

34. The Muccunti inscription was found from

(a) Calicut
(b) Payyannur
(c) Kollam
(d) Kottayam

35. Who is the 24th thirthankara of Jainism?

(a) Chandraprabha
(b) Ananta
(c) Mahavira
(d) Padmaprabha

36. Punturakkon is the title given to

(a) the Venad kings
(b) the Kottayam rajas
(c) the Zamorin
(d) the Pandyan kings

37. Who was the actual founder of the Lingayats?

(a) Bhadrabahu
(b) Chandra Gupta

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(c) Basava
(d) sthulabahu

38. How many fundamental duties are provided by Part IVA of the Constitution of India?
(a) 15
(b) 17
(c) 11
(d) 16

39. What is the meaning Sulh-i Kul?

(a) Abstract idea
(b) Peace with all
(c) Spiritual confinement
(d) Monism

40. Who is known as Pulayaraja?

(a) Sahodaran Ayyappan
(b) K. Kelappan
(c) Vaikunda swami
(d) Ayyankali

41. Lal Ded belongs to

(a) Hyderabad
(b) Varanasi
(c) Ajmer
(d) Kashmir

42. Basava’s spiritual discipline was based on the principles of

(a) Arivu (true knowledge)
(b) Achara (right conduct),

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(c) Anubhava (divine experience)

(d) All of the above

43. Who is the founder of Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha?

(a) M. A. Ansari
(b) Atmaram Pandurang
(c) B. R. Ambedkar
(d) C. R. Das

44. In Sufism Pir is

(a) Student
(b) Dancer
(c) Spiritual guide
(d) Holy book

45. Who is the author of Ratnamanikal?

(a) Joseph Mundasseri
(b) Pattom Tanu Pillai
(c) Poykayil Appachan
(d) K. Kelappan

46. Fundamental Duties were incorporated in the constitution on the recommendation of

(a) Swaran Singh Committee
(b) Santhanam Committee
(c) First Administrative Reforms Commission
(d) Shah Commission

47. Who was the guru of Kabir Das?

(a) Adi Shankara
(b) Guru Nanak

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(c) Ramananda
(d) Namadeva

48. Who was the creator of the style of mystic poetry called vatsun or Vakhs?
(a) Kabir das
(b) Mirabai
(c) Lal Ded
(d) Guru Nanak

49. Who was the founder of the Chisti order?

(a) Hamid-ud-din Nagauri
(b) Shaikh Moinuddin
(c) Qutubud- din Bakhtiyar Kaki
(d) Nizam-ud-din Auliya

50. Who founded the spiritual path of Ayyavazhi?

(a) Vaikunta Swamy
(b) Chattambi Swamikal
(c) Ayyankali
(d) Poykayil Appachan

51. Tat Tvam Asi is found in

(a) Shvetashvatara Upanishad
(b) Chandogya Upanishad
(c) Taittiriya Upanishad
(d) Mandukya Upanishad

52. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

1. Ajita Kesakambala was an Akiriyavadin who strongly believed in the law of karma.
2. Ajita Kesakambala denied together the reality of this world and the world hereafter.
(a) 1 only

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(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

53. The Tharisapalli copper plate is associated with

(a) Marthanda Varma
(b) Pazhassi raja
(c) Veluthambi
(d) Ayyandikal Thiruvatikal

54. Which of the following Constitution (Amendment) Acts added Fundamental Duties to the
Constitution of India?
(a) Constitution (Forty second Amendment) Act, 1976
(b) Constitution (Forty first amendment) Act, 1976
(c) Constitution (Forty fourth Amendment) Act, 1978
(d) Constitution (Forty fifth Amendment) Act, 1980

55. Mention the place where Buddha attained enlightenment.

(a) Sarnath
(b) Rajagriha
(c) Bodh Gaya
(d) Kapilavastu

56. Manigramam is
(a) A guild of south Indian merchants
(b) Ancient village of Tanjore
(c) Village committee of Chola period
(d) A guild of temple priests

57. Which of the following statement is correct regarding Nirguna Bhakti?

(a) It is the concept of formless guru

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(b) It is the concept of God having form

(c) It is the concept of formless God
(d) None of the above

58. Who is the author of The Argumentative Indian?

(a) Satyajit ray
(b) Amartya Sen
(c) Salman Rushdie
(d) Sanjeev Sanyal

59. The Bardoli Satyagraha was launched in

(a) 1944
(b) 1928
(c) 1932
(d) 1919

60. Who is the father of Kerala Renaissance?

(a) Chattambi Swamikal
(b) Swathi Tirunal
(c) Sree Narayana Guru
(d) Sahodaran Ayyappan

61. In the Constitution of India, fundamental duties are mentioned in which of the following
Article?
(a) Article 50
(b) Article 51
(c) Article 51A
(d) Article 49

62. Who is the author of ‘Unto This Last'?

(a) John Ruskin

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(b) Hermann Kallenbach

(c) . Ruskin Bond
(d) Louis Fischer

63. Who was the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi?

(a) B. G. Tilak
(b) S. N. Banerjee
(c) G. K. Gokhale
(d) M. G. Ranade

64.Kesari and Maratha were newspapers published by

(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) B. G. Tilak
(c) Vallabhai Patel
(d) Sarojini Naidu

65. Poykayil Appachan was also known as

(a) Kumara Gurudevan
(b) Sahodaran Ayyappan
(c) Deenabandhu
(d) Ayya Vaikundar

66. Which of the following is not part of the five vows of Jainism?
(a) Aparigraha
(b) Brahmacharya
(c) Advaitha
(d) Ahimsa

67. Who was the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) K. M. Munshi

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(b) Dr. Rajendraprasad

(c) B. R. Ambedkar
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

68. Who was the Governor-general during the 1857 Revolt?

(a) Lord Irwin
(b) Lord Dufferin
(c) Lord Canning
(d) Lord Lytton

69. Who led the revolt against the British In Bareilly in 1857?
(a) Azimullah Khan
(b) Bakth Khan
(c) Rani Lakshmi Bai
(d) Tantia Tope

70. The founder of Kochi Pulayasabha is

(a) Sahodaran Ayyappan
(b) Ayyankali
(c) Thycaud Ayya
(d) Poykayil Appachan

71.Who led the British forces which defeated rani Lakshmibai?

(a) Warren Hastings
(b) henry Havelock
(c) Hugh Rose
(d) Robert Clive

72. The "liberty, equality and fraternity" enshrined in Preamble of Constitution of India, is
inspired by which revolution?
(a) Russian

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(b) French
(c) American
(d) Irish

73. Fundamental Duties is borrowed from which of the following constitution?

(a) Unites States of America
(b) South Africa
(c) USSR
(d) Australia

74. During 1857 Revolt, protests in Bihar were led by

(a) Begum Hazrat Mahal
(b) General Bakth Khan
(c) Kunwar Singh
(d) Tantia Tope

75. Two great Buddhist universities of Nalanda and Vikramshila were patronised by the
(a) Paramaras
(b) Palas
(c) Chandelas
(d) All the above

76.Who wrote Geetanjali?

(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Amartya Sen
(d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

77. Which of the following Article state the "Abolition of Titles"?

(a) Article 17

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(b) Article 18
(c) Article 16
(d) Article 15

78.When was the Indian National Congress founded?

(a) 1885
(b) 1886
(c) 1880
(d) 1881

79. In which year did Gandhiji return to India?

(a) 1920
(b) 1926
(c) 1915
(d)1917

80.Who is the founder of Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha (God's Church of Visible
Salvation)?
(a) Thycaud Ayya
(b) Vakkom Abdu Khader Maulavi
(c) Poykayil Appachan
(d) Sree Narayana Guru

81. The Right to Education Act was actually implemented by the Government of India on
(a) January, 2010
(b) August, 2009
(c) April, 2009
(d) April, 2010

82. Who was the Viceroy when Indian National Congress was founded?
(a) Lord Irwin

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(b) Lord Dufferin

(c) Lord Lytton
(d) Lord Ripon

83.The Sarvamsa Conference was convened at Aluva in

(a) 1924
(b) 1926
(c) 1930
(d) 1928

84. Who founded the Samathwa Samajam?

(a) Sree Narayana Guru
(b) Vakkom Abdul Khader Maulavi
(c) Vaikunda Swamy
(d) Thycaud Ayya

85. The Tarisappally Copper Plate donation was made in the year of
(a) 849 C.E.
(b) 848 C.E.
(c) 845 C.E.
(d) 840 C.E.

86. Sree Narayana Guru performed the consecration of Shiva at Aruvippuram in

(a) 1887
(b) 1882
(c) 1888
(d) 1885

87.At which session did Indian National Congress adopt the Poorna Swaraj resolution?
(a) Nagpur session, 1920

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(b) Lahore session, 1929

(c) Madras session, 1927
(d) Karachi session,1931

88. Simon Commission reached India in

(a) 1914
(b) 1918
(c) 1929
(d) 1928

89. Which Article of the Indian Constitution abolished the practice of untouchability?
(a) Article 16
(b) Article 18
(c) Article 17
(d) Article 20

90. The first person to open an English medium school for Dalit Community in Kerala was
(a) Ayya Vaikundar
(b) Poykayil Appachan
(c) Ayyankali
(d) Sahodaran Ayyappan

91. Which part of the Indian Constitution contains the Fundamental Rights of the citizens?
(a) Part III of the Constitution
(b) Part VI of the Constitution
(c) The Seventh Schedule of the Constitution
(d) None of the above

92. Article 19 of the Indian Constitution includes which of the following right?
(a) Right against exploitation

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(b) Right to Constitutional Remedies

(c) Right to freedom of speech and expression
(d) Right to freedom of Religion

93. Gol Gumbaz is the mausoleum of

(a) Muhammed Adil Shah
(b) Ismail Adil Shah
(c) Yusuf Adil Shah
(d) Ibrahim Adil Shah II

94. The monolithic image of Jain Saint ‘Gomateshwara’ is at __________

(a) Mount Abu
(b) Sravanabelgola
(c) Kalinga
(d) Kushinagar

95. In which year was Amartya Sen awarded the Nobel prize for Economics?
(a) 1998
(b) 2003
(c) 1999
(d) 2001

96. In which of the following articles of Constitution, the Right to Equality are mentioned?
(a) Articles 23 - 24
(b) Articles 19 - 22
(c) Articles 14 - 18
(d) Articles 25 - 28

97. Who among the following was the chairperson of the Provincial Constitution Committee
of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) M. R. Jayakar

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(b) Dr. Rajendraprasad

(c) B. R. Ambedkar
(d) Sardar Vallabhai Patel

98. Ajita Kesakambala lived in

(a) 10th century B.C.E.
(b) 6th century B.C.E.
(c) 2nd century B.C.E.
(d) 3rd century B.C.E.

99. Nayanars were devotees of

(a) Shiva
(b) Vishnu
(c) Indra
(d) Agni

100. The leader of Kallumala Samaram is

(a) Ayyankali
(b) Sahodaran Ayyappan
(c) Vakkom Abdul Khader Moulavi
(d) Poykayil Appachan

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Answer Key
1. b 2. d 3. b 4. c 5. a 6. c 7. b 8. d 9. d 10. c
11. b 12. c 13. c 14. b 15. d 16. a 17. a 18. c 19. c 20. a
21.c 22.b 23. b 24. c 25. c 26. b 27. c 28. c 29.a 30. c
31. b 32. a 33. d 34. a 35. c 36. c 37. c 38. c 39. b 40. d
41. d 42. d 43. c 44. c 45. c 46. a 47. c 48. c 49. b 50. a
51. b 52. b 53. d 54. a 55. c 56. a 57. c 58. b 59. b 60. c
61. c 62. a 63. c 64. b 65. a 66. c 67. c 68. c 69. a 70. b
71. c 72. b 73. c 74. c 75. b 76. b 77. b 78. a 79. c 80. c
81. d 82. b 83. a 84. c 85. a 86. c 87. b 88. d 89. c 90. b
91. a 92. c 93. a 94. b 95. a 96. c 97. d 98. b 99. a 100. a

Prepared by
Vivek. A. B
Assistant Professor,
SDE, University of Calicut.

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