WBCS 2021 Preliminary Questions solved- History

WBCS 2021 Preliminary Questions- History

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• The names of Sidhu and Kanhu are associated with which rebellion?

• Chuar
• Sannyasi
• Santal
• Kol

• Ibn Batuta came to India during which ruler's reign?

• Akbar
• Shersha
• Muhammad-Bin-Tughlak
• Alauddin Khilji

• What was the major symbol of Mahatma Gandhi during his non-violence movement?

• His looking glasses
• His Charka (spinning wheel)
• His walking stick
• His cap 

• Who had designed the first Indian National Flag?

• Vicoji Rustam Kama
• Annie Besant
• Sarojini Naidu
• Sister Nivedita

• Who wrote the drama Neeldarpan?

• Harishchandra Mukharjee
• Girishchandra Ghosh
• Dwijendralal Roy
• Dinabandhu Mitra

• The leader of the Narmada Bachao movement is

• Anna Hajare
• Medha Patker
• Ramdev
• Binayak Sen

• The boundaryline of Sundarbana was demakated by

• Hamiltan Saheb
• Major William Tolly
• Scott
• Dampier and Hodges

• Which Sultan was not a slave before he ascended the throne?

• Qutub-ud-din Aibak
• Iltutmish
• Alauddin Khilji
• Balban

• Who was the Mughal Emperor during the revolt of 1857?

• Aurangzeb
• Mir Quasim
• Bahadur Sha II
• Sarfaraz Khan

• What was the Carlyle circular and when was it issued in colonial India?

•  A decree to prevent political gathering during the World War I

•  A regulation to introduce English education in schools after 1857

•  A decree to restrict use of arms by Indian citizens of colonial India from 1919 onwards.

•  A decree to prevent National protests amongst students in educational institutions during the partition of Bengal.

• When was the first industrial policy resolution taken?

•  1956

•  1947

•  1948

•  1951

•  Mansab means

• A rank or office

• A military general

• A grant of revenue free land

• A religious text

•  Which was the first incident of a British official's assassinations after the revolt of 1857?

• Assassination of British official W. C. Rand by chaphekar brothers.

•  Assassination of British police officer John Sanders by Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru.

•  Assassination of William  Hutt Curzon wilyi by Madan Lal Dhingra.

•  Assassination of British police officer Jackson by Ananta Lakshman Kanhere.

•  Chipko Movement is known as

•  feminist movement

•  tribal movement

•  political movement

•  caste movement

•  Which Turkish Sultan introduced the iqta system?

• Alauddin Khilji e

• Balban

• Iltutmish

• Muhammad Bin Tughlaq

•  Who was the editor of the Nationalist newspaper Sandhya?

•  Satish Chandra Mukhopadhyay

•  Brambhabandhab Upadhyay

•  Sisir Kumar Ghosh

•  Bhupendra Nath Dutta

• Government of India passed the act to protect the Human Rights in the year

•  1990

•  1993

•  1995

• 2002

• Pakistan Resolution was taken on
• 16th August 1946
• 26th January 1935
• 14th April 1942
• 23rd march 1940


•  Who propagated the Safety Valve theory and about which organisation?
•  A O Hume,  about Indian National Congress
•  Lord dufferin, about Indian Association
•  Charles Tegart for zamindari Association
•  Lord Macaulay for British India league


•  Who was involved with the Indian independence League? 
• Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
• Mahadev Govind Ranade
• Anand Mohan Bose
• Rash Behari Bose

•  New Delhi the new capital of India was inaugurated by Lord Irwin in the year
• 1905
• 1911
• 1931
• 1947

•  When did Sakabda commence?
• 78 AD
• 78 BCE
• 178 BCE
• 178 AD

•  Who founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta?
• Alexander Cunningham
• John Stuart Mill
• William Jones
• David Hare

• Who among the following historians does not belong to the Aligarh School?
• Anil Seal
• Irfan Habib
•  Nurul Hasan
•  Athar Ali

•  Who was known as the Sher-i-Bengal?
• Fazlul Haque
•  Haji Mohammad Mohsin
•  Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
•  Nawab Salimullah

• Khajuraho, ‘the city of the Gods’ a UNESCO World Heritage site, the name of which was first referred in the 11th century CE by
• Ibn Battuta
• Ibn Sina
• Abu Rayhan Al biruni
• Omar khayyam

•  Which mediaeval ruler introduced Ain-i dahsala?
•  Balban
•  firoj Tuglak
•  Shershah
•  Akbar

•  Who is the author of the Allahabad pillar inscription?
• Rudra Daman
• Harisen
• Samudragupta
• Bunbhatta

• Which animal was part of the symbol of Netaji's INA Flag?

• Lion
• Elephant
• Tiger
• Rhino

• Sandhyakar Nandi was the court poet of the

• Mauryas
• Senas
• Hussain Sahis
• Palas

• Vikramshila Bihara was founded by 

• Devapala
• Dharmapala
• Rampala
• Sasanka

• Which Indian nationalist leader known as "Grand Old Man of Inadia" ?

• Badruddin Tyabji
• Surendranath Banarjee
• Gopal Krishna Gokhle
• Dadabhai Naoroji

• Who wrote Amuktamalyada?

• Rajendra Chola
• Harshavardhana
• Deva Raya
• Krishnadeva Raya

• Who was the Govorner General of India when Gandhiji initiated Civil Disobedience  Movement?

• Lord Hardinge
• Lord Minto
• Lord Linlithgo
• Lord Irwin

• The partition of Bengal was annulled in

• 1905
• 1911
• 1901
• 1947

• Who coined the slogan "Swaraj is my birth right" ?

• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
• Vasudev Balwant Phadke
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Balkrishna Chapekar

• What was the 'Eka Movement'?

• A relligious movement
• A peasant Movement
• A secret revolutionary movement
• None of the above

• When was the University of Calcutta established?

• 1911
• 1817
• 1854
• 1857

• To which following movement is the term 'Ulgulan' associated with?

• Munda uprising
• Santal uprising
• Kol uprising
• Gurkha uprising

• What was the original name of Titumir?

• Syed Amanullah Khan
• Syed Mir Nisar Ali
• Syed Amir Ali
• Syed Mir Muhammad Khan

• Bengal Revolutionaries were largely inspired by which revolutionary movements of Grate Britain?

• Scottish
• Irish
• Welsh
• None of the above

• Which Bengal poet composed the song "Ban eshechhe mora gange" during the partion of bengal?

• Rabindranath Thakur
• Lalan Fakir
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Mukunda Das

• Who wrote "Poverty and Unbritish Rule in India"?

• Ramesh Chandra Dutta
• Dadabhai Naoroji
• A. O. Hume
• Amartya Sen

• Who said "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind"?

• Martin Luthar King
• M. K. Gandhi
• Nelson Mandela
• Karl Marx

• Which part of the world was the agenda of Khilafat movement involved with

• India

• Arabia

•  Iran

•  Turkey

•  Gandhiji was influenced by

•  Leo Tolstoy

•  Charles Dickens

•  Karl Marx

•   Abraham Lincon

•  The Nayankara system was associated with

•  The Bahmani kingdom

•  The Chola Empire 

•  The Maratha Kingdom

•  The Vijayanagara empire

• Who among the following freedom fighters did not belong to Revolutionary (militant) Nationalism?

•  Veena Das

•  Santi & Suniti

•  Matangini Hajra

•  Kalpana Dutta

• ‘DUMA’  is related to Russia in the same way as ‘ECCLESIA’ is related to ……

•  Bhutan

•  Afghanistan

•  Greece

•  Germany