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  List-I                                                              List-II
(Author)                                                         (Book)
(a) John William Kaye                                (i) Indian Old and New
(b) Mary Carpenter                                    (ii) The Economic History of India under Early  British Rule
(c) Ramesh Chandra Dutt                         (iii) A History of the Sepoy War in India
(d) Valentine Chiral                                   (iv) Six months in India
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 List-I                                                   List-II
(Book)                                               (Contents)
(a) Nizami-i Anjum                           (i) Deals with current weights and measures
(b) Tuhfat-ul Hind                            (ii) Hindu astrology
(c) Dabistan-i                                  (iii) Hindu prosody and Mazahib rhetoric
(d) Risala-Miqdariyah                     (iv) Different religions and sects of India
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Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) .
Assertion (A) : The Supreme Council of the Governor-General in Calcutta gave extraordinary powers to Special Commissions to capture and punish rebels of the 1857 Revolt, in its Act XIV of June 1857
Reason (R) : The primary aim of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan's Causes of the Indian Revolt (1858), then a government sub-Judge, was to show the loyalty of Muslims, who in the years following the rebellion were viewed with suspicion and disfavour 
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Ibn Battuta informs that the Sultan had fixed Wednesday for freeing male slaves, Friday for freeing female slaves and Saturday for marrying men slaves to female slaves. Identify the Sultan .

In the Bayan Hoard, coins of which Gupta ruler have been found in the highest number ?

Which of the following texts were authored by the Kashmiri poet Kshemendra ?
(a) Kuttanimata
(b) Kalavilasa
(c) Prabodhachandrodaya
(d) Samayamatrika
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Regarding Maratha relations with Nizamul Mulk, which of the following statements are correct ?
(a) As the Viceroy of the Deccan, from 1710 to 1715. Nizamul Mulk resisted the Maratha claims for the Chough and Sardeshmukhi of the Deccan
(b) After his successful rebellion against the Saiyids, Nizamul Mulk respected the Imperial farman granting the Chough and Sardeshmukhi of the Deccan to the Marathas
(c) In January 1721. he had his first meeting with Baji Rao
(d) The most important point of conflict between Marathas and Nizamul Mulk was the Karnataka
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"Our general policy is to avoid entanglement in power politics and not to join any group of powers as against any other group . The two leading groups today are the Russian Bloc and the Anglo-American Bloc . We must be friendly to both and yet not join either" .
The above words constitute the central idea of which policy ?

Given below are two statements :
Statement (I) : When a soldier died showing exemplary valour while fighting for the king, he was granted land for the livelihood of his dependents, called 'Mrityukarvritti' 
Statement (II) : A Chandella inscription records the grant of such a 'Mrityukarvritti'
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Given below are two statements One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) .
Assertion (A) : When the All India Women's Conference began their campaign in support of the Child Marriage Restraint Bill (1929), Sister Subbalakshmi gave evidence before the Joshi Committee about the harmful effects of youthful marriages
Reasons (R) : Methuen Petit, a social worker who became leading trade unionist, organized the Seva Mandir to work among the poor
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Which of the following statements regarding Gandhi's concept of Satyagraha are correct ?
(a) For Gandhi, Satyagraha aimed to penetrate the barriers of prejudice, ill-will, dogmatism, self-righteousness and selfishness
(b) Gandhi explained the effectiveness of Satyagraha in terms of the spiritual impact of suffering love
(c) The Satyagraha was considered by Gandhi as the ultimate tool of humiliating the opponent
(d) Gandhi's political realism triumphed over his moral idealism and despite its claims to the contrary, his Satyagrahas were not always purely spiritual in nature
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Chronologically arrange Muhammad bin Tughlaq's experiments/projects :
(a) Token currency
(b) Khorasan expedition
(c) Transfer of capital
(d) Qarachil expedition
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The earliest extant examples of the Mughal baluster columns are found solely in which of the following Mughal emperor's fortress palaces ?

Match List-I with List-II :
   List-I                                                 List-II
(Sikh Guru)                                       (Sub-Caste)
(a) Guru Nanak                                (i) Bhalla
(b) Guru Amar Das                          (ii) Bedi
(c) Guru Ram Das                           (iii) Trehan
(d) Guru Angad                                (iv) Sodhi
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Which of the following Sultans in his farman used to address the amirs as Masnad-i ali ?

Match List-I with List-II :
  List-I                                                              List-II
(Authors)                                                     (Dharmasastras)
(a) Bhatta Lakshmidhara                            (i) Chaturvarga-chintamani
(b) Devannabhatta                                     (ii) Smrityarthasara
(c) Hemadri                                                (iii) Kriyakalpataru
(d) Sridhara                                                (iv) Smriti-Chandrika
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Which of the following statements regarding interpretation in historical writing are correct ?
(a) Interpretation as an essential step in historical method seems to lie beyond criticism and exposition
(b) To know what a document means is as much a challenge to critical judgment as to know when or by whom was it written, or whether one may trust it
(c) The literary exposition of historical data is greatly conditioned by the interpretation one places upon them
(d) Factual interpretation deals with the facts of a document, not with the words
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The Sultan ordered the Maliks, Amirs, officers of the court and persons of responsibility and status not to go to each other's houses or to collect parties at banquets : there were to be no intermarriage among them unless the Sultan had been informed and his permission obtained'. Identify the Sultan .

Who was the first elected president of the All India Depressed Classes Association formed in 1926 ?

Poems classified as upadesharupaka (didactic metaphors) in Marathi bhakti poetry were known as

During Jahangir's period certain painters developed recognizable areas of expertise in the field of Mughal paintings . In this regard which of the following statements are correct ?
(a) Mansur wars expert in painting animals and flowers
(b) Abul Hasan was a portraitist
(c) Govardhan was an expert painter of painting holy men, musicians, and eccentrics
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Which of the following Sanskrit intellectuals of the seventeenth century had relations with the Mughal emperor Shahjahan ?
(a) Santi Chandra
(b) Jagannath Panditraja
(c) Kavindracarya Saraswati
(d) Padmasundra
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From among the following statements regarding Munshi Premchand and his works, which of them are correct ?
(a) Premchand was among the first to portray the Dalits as independent and recognizable characters both as part of the poor and with their own particular problems
(b) Premchand was extremely insensitive to the political and social movements of his times
(c) Premchand was concerned both about social evils and enslaved conditions of his country
(d) One of his (Premchand's) last and most famous stories, Kafan (the Shroud), was first published in Hindi in 1935 and later appeared in Urdu
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Which of the following texts allow divorce ?
(a) Narada Sinriti
(b) Manava Dharmasastra
(c) Arthasastra
(d) Yajnavalkya Smriti
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Which one of the following statements is not correct ?

Which among the following are elements of Liberalism ?
I. Individual should have the right to develop his own personality
II. Man is a rational creature
III. Society should not be plural
IV. It believes in constitutionalism
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In which year did Pandita Ramabai open her Sharda Sadan (Home for Learning) ?

Given below are two statements .
Statement I Tagore and Gandhi met for the first time at Shantiniketan
Statement II Tagore and Gandhi met for the first time at Gurukul Kangri
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Local Bodies Ombudsman may be established to hear complaints of corruption against local bodies .
This was the view of the

Who among the following envisaged that liberal democracy as a political apparatus would ensure the accountability of the Governors to the governed ?

Which theory of Rights claims that Rights are inalienable and cannot be separated or taken away from the individual as they are inharent and prior to society and state ?

Who among the following coined the term Ecofeminism ?

Which of the following are correctly matched ?
I. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights-1966
II. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities-2000
III. Convention on the Rights of Child-1989
IV. Optional Protocol on Economic Social Rights-2006
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Which of the following book is NOT written by Machiavelli ?

Which of the following is NOT written by Mary Wollstonecraft ?

Lohia opined .
l. Freedom and bread are inseparable
II. The removal of inequality from human society was one of the seven revolutions
III. If socialism is to be defined in two words then they are equality and prosperity
IV. The desire for equality in the modern world has become the desire of being similar and not equal
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Who wrote 'Neo-Colonialism : The Last Stage of Capitalism' ?

'Leadership is the activity of influencing people to strive willingly for mutual objectives .' This was said by .

How many new languages were added by the 92nd Constitutional Amendment, 2003 ?

Consider the following movements and arrange them in chronological order .
I. Naxalbari Movement
II. Kheda Movement
III. Champaran Movement
IV. Khilafat Movement
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The rise and growth of the concept of New Public Administrative can be traced to
I. Honey Report on Higher Education for Public Services, 1967
II. Minnowbrook Conference II, 1988
III. Philadelphia Conference on the Theory and Practice of Public Administration, 1967
IV. Public Administration in a Time of Turbulence, 1971
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Which of the following functions have been laid down in the 12th Schedule of the Constitution of India for Municipalities ? 
I. Urban poverty alleviation
II. Planning for economic and social development
III. Roads and bridges 
IV. Public safety services
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Which of the following principles are correct with regard to liberal democracy ?
I. Government by consent
II. Public Accountability
III. Suitable for Socialism
IV. Constitutional Government
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The book 'Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History' was written by .

Match List I and List II .
    List I                                                                                List II
  (Stages in the Evolution)                                                 (Duration)
A. Principles of Administration                                         I. 1938-1947
B. Era of Challenges                                                       II. 1948-1970
C. Politics-Administration Dichotomy                              III. 1887-1926 
D. Crisis of Identity                                                          IV. 1927-1937
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Which of the following are correctly matched ?
I. Operation Raahat-Yemen
II. Vande Bharat Mission-Sri Lanka
III. Operation Maitri-Nepal
IV. Operation Sukoon-Iraq
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In which Indian state's assembly election, Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) was used for the first time ?

Who among the following has provided 'Revisionist Theory of Modernity' ?

In which one of the following years, the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) Scheme was launched ?

Which among the following are included in Nine Pillars of Digital India ?
l. Information for all
II. Early harvest programme
III. Electronic manufacturing
IV. Connect only metro cities of the country
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