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  1. Visakhadatta sketches the event after the death of Samudragupta in his work

  2. A.
    Mudrarakasam
    B.
    Devi Chand Guptam
    C.
    Mrichekakatika
    D.
    Malavikagnimitra

  3. The system of Dual Government during the latter half of the 18th century AD is associated with the name of

  4. A.
    Clive
    B.
    Comwallis
    C.
    Waren Hastings
    D.
    William Bentinck

  5. 'The Vedas contain all the truth was interpreted by

  6. A.
    Swami Vivekananda
    B.
    Swami Dayananda
    C.
    Raja Rammohan Roy
    D.
    None of the above

  7. The term samanta, meaning a feudatory from the sixth century AD, originally meant a

  8. A.
    slave
    B.
    cultivator
    C.
    neighbor
    D.
    foreigner

  9. To evolve a peaceful settlement of the conflict between India and China, which of the following non-aligned Afro-Asian nations participated in a conference held in December 1962?

  10. A.
    Burma (now Myanmar), Combodia, Indonesia and UAR
    B.
    Burma, Sri Lanka, Combodia and Indonesia
    C.
    Burma, Indonesia, Ghana and Sri Lanka
    D.
    All of the above

  11. The text of the document called Mahzar, by which Akbar assumed the role of supreme arbiter in the matters of religion is found in

  12. A.
    Nizamuddin's Tabaqat-I-Akbari
    B.
    Arif Quandahari's Tarikh-I-Alfi
    C.
    Abul Fazl's Akbarnama
    D.
    Badauni's Muntakahab-ut-Tawarikh

  13. Tulsidas, the author of Ramcharitmanas, was a contemporary of which of the following rulers?

  14. A.
    Akbar
    B.
    Humayun
    C.
    Shahjahan
    D.
    Sher Shah Suri

  15. To meet the educational needs of the people, the Madarasa-I Nasiri was built in the region of

  16. A.
    Qutub-ud-din Aibak
    B.
    Iltutmish
    C.
    Ruknuddin Firoz Shah
    D.
    Jalal-id-din Khilji

  17. The weekly Commonweal was founded by

  18. A.
    Annie Besant
    B.
    Bipan Chandra Pal
    C.
    Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    D.
    Sarojini Naidu

  19. Ustad Mansur was a famous painter in the reign of

  20. A.
    Shajahan
    B.
    Akbar
    C.
    Humayun
    D.
    Jahangir