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Exam Date: 05-Oct-2020
Exam Time: 15:00-18:00
Examination: 1. Course Code - M.A./M.Sc./M.C.A.
2. Field of Study - Modern History (MODM)
SECTION 1 - PART I
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Question No.1 (Question Id - 10)
"I was chided for exoticizing the historicity of texts by calling them ethno-histories rather than histories, but in those early days I was content to use the capaciousness of anthropology (the prefix "ethno-” was only intended to gloss the ways in which history was culturally constructed and shaped) to rescue these histories from the pervasive colonial and post-colonial condescension of the times."
The main objective of the author was :
(A) To exoticise histories to use the capaciousness of anthropology
(B) To write a history which is neither colonial nor post-colonial
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(C) To recover histories of communities that were outside the boundaries of mainstream colonial historiography
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(D) To prefix “ethno” in the writing of authentic history
Question No.2 (Question Id - 1)
The enormous impact of Picasso's Guernica on the twentieth-century imagination is well known. The painting is widely regarded as an anti-Fascist manifesto - a rare example of a great work of art successfully conveying a political message Picasso's opposition was to have been all in the name of liberal democracy, the only political regime not overtly hostile to modern art: 'Picasso's mural is an example of modern art as a free, personal statement without direction by any government agency and without apparent concern for an understanding by the masses...'
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Which of the following statements would follow from the above ?
(A) Picasso's painting stands as a testimony for the intrinsic commitment of modern art to freedom and democracy.
(B) Picasso's allegedly elitist attitude is a myth.
(C) Modern art is promoted as the ambiguous vehicle of free opinion.
(D) Modernism is opposed to the cold classicism favoured by totalitarian regimes.
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(A) A, B, C and D
(B) A, B and C
(C) A, C and D (Correct Answer)
(D) B, C and D
Question No.3 (Question Id - 13)
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"History and epic were one and the same in precolonial Assam, and the remembering society ordered and constructed its memories through the memory of kings and not their own past."
Based on the above statement, which one of the following statements is TRUE ?
(A) History was not important in precolonial Assam
(C) The stories of kings were more important than those of the common people (Correct Answer)
(D) Memories and not history were important in precolonial Assam
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Question No.4 (Question Id - 4)
Which of the following are characteristics of microhistory?
(A) Microhistory argues for big structures, large processes and huge comparisons
(B) Italian historians, who grouped around the journal Quarderni Storici, were the pioneers of microhistory
(C) Microhistory emphasized the idiosyncratic or deviant anomaly
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(D) Microhistory was inspired more by anthropology rather than sociology
(A) A, B, C, D
(B) A, B and C
(C) A, C and D
(D) B, C and D (Correct Answer)
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Question No.5 (Question Id - 3)
'Studying history necessarily involves taking oneself out of one's present context and exploring an alternative world. This cannot help but make us more aware of our own lives and contexts. To see how differently people have behaved in the past presents us with an opportunity to think about how we behave, why we think in the ways we do, what things we can take for granted or rely upon. Visiting the past is something like visiting a foreign country: they do somethings the same and somethings differently, but above all else they make us more aware of what we call 'home'.
Which of the following statements best captures the ideas of the author ?
(A) One should not compare the past and the present.
(B) Studying history is irrelevant.
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(C) Studying history may enrich our understanding of the present. (Correct Answer)
(D) Studying history helps us predict the future.
Question No.6 (Question Id - 16)
"The use of 'middle age' or medieval was picked up above all in the nineteenth century...to be set-up against the concept, also nineteenth-century, of the Renaissance when modern history supposedly started. The medieval period could thus be seen as a random invention, a confidence trick perpetrated on the future by a few scholars."
From the above statement, which of the following are FALSE ?
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(A) Medieval era historians created the word medieval to depict their own period
(B) Modern history started in the 19th century
(C) Scholars in the 19th century used the term 'middle age' to refer to the historical period preceding the Renaissance
(D) The Renaissance period refers to the 19th century
(A) A, B and C
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(B) A, B and D (Correct Answer)
(C) A, C and D
(D) B, C and D
Question No.7 (Question Id - 7)
"Admittedly landgrants generated differential access to power as well as resources and complex relations of abmination and subordination animated arenas by affecting socio-economic competence of the various strata of local inhabitants. However, their impact in terms of immediate consequences certainly varied over areas depending on whether the donation was in a settled area with a long history of agriculture or in a virgin tract or tribal frontier.” (Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, ‘Introduction', Land System and Rural Society in Early India, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997.)
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(A) Landgrants ensured equal rights to all in agrarian society.
(B) The impact of land grants was different in different regions. (Correct Answer)
(C) Local inhabitants remained unaffected by landgrants.
(D) There were no immediate consequences of langrants.
Question No.8 (Question Id - 14)
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"The connections between people and natural objects are both powerful and telling for whenever the members of a community speak about their landscape - whenever they name it, or classify it, or evaluate it, or are moved to tell stories about it - they represent it in ways that are compatible with shared understanding of how they know themselves.”
Based on the above statement, which of the following statements are true ?
(A) The landscape is a means through which people develop self-identity
(B) People develop deep relations with the natural world around them
(C) People often attempt to have a systematized understanding of the natural world
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(D) Telling stories about the landscape comes naturally to people
(A) A, B and C (Correct Answer)
(B) A, B and D
(C) A, C and D
(D) B, C and D
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Question No.9 (Question Id - 20)
"The Narada Smriti asserts that subjects owe the king revenue as a reward for the protection he provides them. Kamandaka's Nitisara advised the king to be like a florist or milkman in matters of taxation. Just as cows have to be tended at certain times and milked at others, and just as a florist takes care of his plants and sprinkles water on them, besides cutting them-similarly the king should help his subjects with money and provisions at certain times and tax them at others." (Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, Delhi, Pearson, 2008, p. 489)
Which of the following statements correspond with those in the passage?
(A) The Nitisara advocates supporting the subjects even while extracting taxes.
(B) The king's right to collect taxes is not constrained by any responsibilities.
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(C) The Narada Smriti justifies taxation in terms of the protection provided by the king.
(D) Milkmen have a responsibility to look after cows.
(A) A, B and C
(B) A, B and D
(C) A, C and D (Correct Answer)
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(D) B, C and D
Question No.10 (Question Id - 19)
"Harappan cemeteries have been located at sites such as Harappa, Kalibangan, Lothal, Rakhigarhi, and Surkotada... Grave goods including food, pottery, tools, and ornaments were placed along with the body, but they were never too many or lavish. Clearly, the Harappans preferred to use wealth in life rather than bury it with their dead." (Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, Delhi, Pearson, 2008, p. 173)
Which of the statements of the author substantiates the last sentence ?
(A) Grave goods were placed along with the body.
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(B) Harappan cemeteries have been found in Rakhigarhi.
(C) Grave goods included ornaments.
(D) Grave goods were never too many or lavish. (Correct Answer)
Question No.11 (Question Id - 11)
"The overall cultural and religious climate of the sixteenth century India was more open and tolerant of change. Several centuries of dominant Indo-Muslim power had forced Hindu institutions to adapt to that reality by strengthening popular devotional expression. Generations of Muslim life in north India and the Deccan had gradually shaped accommodation and sympathy to Indian society and even to Hinduism."
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According to the author, sixteenth century India was :
(A) extremely conservative
(B) adjusting culturally to the changed political scenario (Correct Answer)
(C) very liberal
(D) mostly syncretic in its culture
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Question No.12 (Question Id - 2)
"No reading, even by the same person, can be guaranteed to produce the same effects repeatedly, which means that authors cannot force their intentions/interpretations on the reader. Conversely, readers cannot fully fathom everything the authors intend.”
The above statement means that :
(A) Nothing can be known by reading
(B) The intent of the author may not be fully known by the reader (Correct Answer)
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(C) A reader can, by reading repeatedly, understand an author
(D) Authors intentions are fully fathomable
Question No.13 (Question Id - 6)
"The safeguarding of the caste structure is achieved through the highly restricted movement of women or even through female seclusion. Women are regarded as gateways - literally points of entrance into the caste system."
Which of the following statements would follow from the above ?
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(A) Maintenance of the caste system requires that women were controlled
(B) Female seclusion was a means to achieve caste purity
(C) The movement of women ended the caste system
(D) The purity of the caste system depended on women
(A) A, B and C
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(B) A, B and D (Correct Answer)
(C) A, C and D
(D) B, C and D
Question No.14 (Question Id - 5)
"For many of the chroniclers of the Sultanate period, history was not exactly a matter of investigated information but one of received knowledge of the past, and of personal testimony and memory. Barani's chief virtue was his own vast knowledge and prodigious memory”.
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From the above statement one can infer that during the Sultanate period :
(A) Chroniclers mainly wrote personal histories
(B) Writing about the past depended on personal knowledge (Correct Answer)
(C) Barani's knowledge was carefully investigated
(D) Texts from the past were not valued by chroniclers
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Question No.15 (Question Id - 18)
"The Greek word which has become 'history' originally meant 'to inquire', and more specifically indicated a person who was able to choose wisely between conflicting accounts. Applying this to writing about the past, it largely meant the work was neither poetic nor philosophical; and hence, for the Greeks, rather less important.” (John H. Arnold, History : A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 18)
The author suggests that according to the Greeks :
(A) Writing history was a significant intellectual activity.
(B) A historical work was expected to judge which of different versions of the past was better. (Correct Answer)
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(C) Historical writing was expected to be poetic.
(D) Historians were expected to provide philosophical insights.
Question No.16 (Question Id - 12)
"Much of the scholarly debate about sites of memory concerns the extent to which they are instruments of the dominant political elements in a society... Some such events are observed whoever is in power.... other events are closely tied to the establishment of a new regime and the overthrow of an older one....... A second school of scholarship emphasizes the ways that sites of memory and the public commemorations surrounding them have the potential for dominated groups to contest their subordinate status in public.... This alternative interpretation of the political meaning of sites of memory emphasizes the multi-vocal character of remembrance and the potential for new groups with new causes to appropriate older sites of memory....Decentering the history of commemoration ensures that we recognize the regional, local, and idiosyncratic character of such activities."
Which of the statements below do NOT reflect this historians suggestions for analyzing the public commemoration of significant historical events ?
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(A) He suggests that we focus strongly on how power elites shape the public remembrance of national or other significant events.
(B) He suggests that sometimes subordinate groups can use sites of memory to challenge the dominant version of the story.
(C) He suggests that it is such subordinated groups who have a truer understanding of the past.
(D) He suggests that the past is remembered in a variety of different frames and that the view from above has to be supplemented by the view from below.
(A) A and B
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(B) A and C (Correct Answer)
(C) A and D
(D) B and C
Question No.17 (Question Id - 15)
"Lodorter, Ungmalsiddas or beliefs have been considered by definition to be a product of the upper classes, and their diffusion among the subordinate classes a mechanical fact of little or no interest."
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Based on the above statement, which of the following statements are true ?
(A) New ideas are usually attributed to the elites.
(B) The dissemination of ideas to the non-elites is not considered important.
(C) Only the upper classes have original ideas or beliefs.
(D) Original ideas of the elites spread automatically to the subordinate classes.
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(A) A, B and C
(B) A, B and D (Correct Answer)
(C) A, C and D
(D) B, C and D
Question No.18 (Question Id - 9)
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"History, then, is a science, but a science of a special kind. It is a science whose business is to study events not accessible to our observation, and to study these inferentially, arguing to them from something else which is accessible to our observation, and which the historian calls 'evidence' for the events in which he is interested."
Which of the following statements would follow from the above?
(A) Historians use the scientific method in their understanding of the past
(B) Historians employ direct observation as a method of analysis
(C) Historians make inferences from evidence in order to understand the past
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(D) Evidences are available for events of the past
(A) A, B and C
(B) A, B and D
(C) A, C and D (Correct Answer)
(D) B, C and D
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Question No.19 (Question Id - 17)
"Mahatma Gandhi : Compare the lot of the first class passengers with that of the third class. In the Madras case the first class fare is over five times as much as the third class fare. Does the third class passenger get one-fifth, even one-tenth, of the comforts of his first class fellow ? It is but simple justice to claim that some relative proportion be observed between the cost and comfort. It is a known fact that the third class traffic pays for the ever-increasing luxuries of first and second class travelling. Surely a third class passenger is entitled at least to the bare necessities of life. In neglecting the third class passengers, opportunity of giving a splendid education to millions in orderliness, sanitation, decent composite life and cultivation of simple and clean tastes is being lost. let the people in high places, the Viceroy, the Commander-in-Chief, the Rajas, Maharajas, the Imperial Councillors and others... go through the experiences now and then of third class travelling. We would then soon see a remarkable change in the conditions of third class travelling..."
Which of these arguments did Gandhi NOT put forward in speaking up for the rights of the third class train passenger?
(A) The third class passenger was subsidizing the comforts of the first and second class passenger.
(B) The difference between the comfort of the first class passenger and that of the third class passenger was far more than the difference in the price of their tickets.
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(C) Firstranker Schools ought to travel third class from the same lesson (Correct Answer)
(D) Better conditions of third class travel would make the railways a site where the poor could be taught many important civic lessons.
Question No.20 (Question Id - 8)
"The noblest art appeals to the intellect as well as to the feelings (as a symphony appeals to us not only by its harmonies and sequences but by its structure and development); and this intellectual pleasure is the highest form of joy to which a man can rise."
Based on the above sentence, one can infer that :
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(A) Feelings get in the way of understanding art
(B) Both the mind and heart are needed to appreciate art at its best (Correct Answer)
(C) Intellectual pursuits are more important than enjoying art
(D) Harmonies and sequences are more important than structure in a symphony
SECTION 2 - PART II
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Question No.1 (Question Id - 27)
Statement I:
The capital of the Indo-Greek ruler Menander was located at Sakala.
Statement II:
Milindapanho narrates a dialogue between Menander and a Buddhist monk.
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(A) Only Statement I is correct.
(B) Only Statement II is correct.
(C) Both Statements I and II are correct. (Correct Answer)
(D) None of the above
Question No.2 (Question Id - 36)
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Vedanga :
A. Is normally translated as 'limbs of Veda'
B. Includes shiksha, chanda, vyakarana, nirukta, kalpa, jyotisha
C. Includes shiksha, itihasa, nyaya, mimamsa, kalpa, jyotisha
D. Includes the Manusmriti and the Arthashastra
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(A) A and B (Correct Answer)
(B) A and C
(C) A and D
(D) B and C
Question No.3 (Question Id - 41)
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Which of the following are correct?
A. Asvapati was the cavalry arm of Vijayanagara army.
B. Chandragiri was a capital of the retreating Vijayanagara rulers for sometime after their defeat at Talikota.
C. Firstranker the Vitthalaswamy temple of Vijayanagara has panels of Portuguese and their horses.
D. The vellanvagai passed completely into the hands of those with local dominance in Vijayanagara period.
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(A) A, B, D only
(B) A, C, D only
(C) A, B, C only (Correct Answer)
(D) B, C, D only
Question No.4 (Question Id - 74)
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Ramchandra Guha's, Savaging the Civilized (1999) deals with :
(A) Savages who needed to be civilized
(B) Civilized urban spaces which were being destroyed
(C) A biography of Verrier Elwin (Correct Answer)
(D) Environmental history
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Question No.5 (Question Id - 57)
Which of the following are correct?
Statement I:
Shivaji encouraged the people to construct new dams or repair old ones.
Statement II:
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The village headman who organized such an undertaking was granted in inama plot of land irrigated by it.
In the light of above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct (Correct Answer)
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
(C) Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect
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(D) Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct
Question No.6 (Question Id - 66)
Who among the following was not an Orientalist ?
(A) H.T. Colebrook
(B) William Johns
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(C) James Princeps
(D) John Lawrence (Correct Answer)
Question No.7 (Question Id - 33)
Panini is the author of :
(A) Mahabhasya
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(B) Astadhyayi (Correct Answer)
(C) Nirukta
(D) Mahabhasya and Nirukta
Question No.8 (Question Id - 54)
Nayakattanams were :
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(A) Horses assigned to the nayakas by the Vijayanagara king.
(B) For sNayakas who collected revenuektankäayagagara king.
(C) Landholdings assigned by the Vijayanagara king. (Correct Answer)
(D) Trading rights assigned to the nayakas by the Vijayanagara ruler.
Question No.9 (Question Id - 29)
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The Archaeological Survey of India was established in :
(A) 1871 (Correct Answer)
(B) 1873
(C) 1877
(D) 1879
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Question No.10 (Question Id - 58)
Ayyavole 500 and Anjuvannam were :
(A) Religious organizations
(B) Trading guilds (Correct Answer)
(C) Agrarian assemblies
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(D) Groups of nobles at the Vijayanagara court
Question No.11 (Question Id - 72)
Which of these posed the greatest threat to health in twentieth-century colonial India ?
(A) Diabetes
(B) Heart disease
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(C) Malaria (Correct Answer)
(D) Cholera
Question No.12 (Question Id - 23)
Which of the following Buddhist texts is mainly concerned with the Buddhist critique of caste system ?
(A) Vajrachhedika (Correct Answer)
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(B) Lalitavistara
(C) Milindapanho
(D) Buddhacharitama
Question No.13 (Question Id - 25)
Which Sena king wrote the Danasagara and Adbhutasagara?
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(A) Lakshamanasena
(B) Vijayasena
(C) Ballalasena (Correct Answer)
(D) Chandrasena
Question No.14 (Question Id - 68)
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Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
| List - I | List - II |
|---|---|
| A. Indian Mirror | I. M.N. Roy |
| B. Tribune | II. M.K. Gandhi |
| C. Young India | III. Debendranath Tagore |
| D. Independent India | IV. Dayal Singh |
(A) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I (Correct Answer)
Question No.15 (Question Id - 76)
When was the 'Dominion Status' for the country first demanded ?
(A) Poona Pact, 1932
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(B) Calcutta Session, 1920
(C) Gandhi Irwin Pact, 1931
(D) Lucknow Pact, 1916 (Correct Answer)
Question No.16 (Question Id - 70)
Match the List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
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| List-1 | List-II |
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| A. Kuka Revolt in the Punjab | I. 1861 |
| B. Deposition of the Gaekwad of Baroda | II. 1869 |
| C. Opening of Suez Canal | III. 1872 |
| D. Indian High Courts Act | IV. 1875 |
(A) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
(B) A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I (Correct Answer)
(C) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
(D) A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
Question No.17 (Question Id - 71)
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The term 'Bengal School' usually alludes to :
(A) Experiments with teaching the alphabet in nineteenth-century Kolkata
(B) The specific ideals of a Nationalist-Marxist curriculum
(C) A form of twentieth-century Indian art (Correct Answer)
(D) The paintings of M.F. Husain, Ganesh Pyne, and Paritosh Sen
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Question No.18 (Question Id - 51)
Whose work gave for the first time detailed information in Europe about Asian trade and lines of navigation to the East that was till then kept as a secret by the Portuguese ?
(A) Marco Polo
(B) Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (Correct Answer)
(C) Duarte Barbosa
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(D) Niccolao Manucci
Question No.19 (Question Id - 62)
Give the correct answer.
During the years 1937-39 :
(A) The top leadership of the Indian National Congress was jailed
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(B) The size of the factory working-class in India tripled
(C) Several Congress leaders became ministers in the provinces (Correct Answer)
(D) Preparations for the Second World War were in full swing throughout the country
Question No.20 (Question Id - 56)
The decimal ranking order that Akbar employed for his nobility originated from a system that was used among
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(A) The Rajputs
(B) The Mongols (Correct Answer)
(C) The Safavids
(D) The Lodis
Question No.21 (Question Id - 60)
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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the choices given below :
| List-1 (Kingdoms) | List-II (Capitals) |
|---|---|
| A. Rashtrakutas | I. Vengi |
| B. Pushyabhutis | II. Warangal |
| C. Eastern Chalukyas | III. Manyakheta |
| D. Kakatiyas | IV. Kanauj |
(A) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
(B) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II (Correct Answer)
(C) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(D) A-IV, B-I, C-II,
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