In India the earliest archaeological remains of hearth has been found from:

The hominoid fossils of Hathnora is:

Which one of the below mentioned sites is not Harappan?

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below:
List-I                                                                              List-II                                     
(a) Grid system of excavation                                (i) Pitt Rivers
(b) Principle of stratigraphy                                   (ii) R.E.M. Wheeler
(c) Radiocarbon method of dating                        (iii) Thomas Jefferson
(d) Three dimensional method of recording          (iv) F.W. Libby 

Flake tools of Levallois technique is the characteristic feature of which area of the following geological ages?

Match List- I (Name of the book) with List-II (Author of the Book) and select the correct answer from the code given below:
List-I                                                                                                List-II
(a)Sketch of Political History of India (1811)                 (i) V.A. Smith
(b)The History of British India (1881)                              (ii) John Malcolm
(c)The History of India (1841)                                           (iii) James Mill
(d)The Early History of India (1904)                                (iv) Elphistone 

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List-I                                                                List-II                                     
(a)Mesolithic site                                          (i) Langharaj
(b)Microlith                                                   (ii) Bagor (Rajasthan)
(c)Beginning of Settled Agriculture              (iii) Birbhanpur
(d)Chalcedony                                             (iv) Chopni Mando 

Which one of the following pairs is not correct ?

Match List-I with List-II
  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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Match List-I with List-II :
 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 
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

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'
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

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 ?

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  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 ?

Arrange the following organizations chronologically from their date of establishment :
(a) All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
(b) Indian National Trade Union
(c) Independent Labour Party of India (Dr. Ambedkar)
(d) Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
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Who was the first president of the All India Trade Union Congress founded on 31 August 1920 ?

Which of the following statement/s is/are correct ?
(a) In the Tamil region right-hand and left hand groups were known as idangai and valangai respectively
(b) Both the right hand and left-hand groups included non-peasant castes such as those of artisans as well as higher ranking castes
(c) Both the right-hand and left-hand groups usually excluded the outcastes, notably the Paraiyas
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Which of the following are included among the seven limbs of ancient Indian State ?
(a) Svamin
(b) Amatya
(c) Janapada
(d) Yuvaraja
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From among the following statements regarding economic critique of colonialism, which ones are correct ?
(a) The British administrators attributed the rapid construction of railroads and the growth of India's foreign trade as a proof of India's prosperity
(b) For nationalists, a negative impact on indigenous industries, foreign trade and railways represented India's underdevelopment of economy
(c) The nationalists emphasized that while expenditure served British imperial needs, it also brought consequent prosperity to Indian people
(d) Not until 1905, did the drain theory f part of the Indian National Congress agenda
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In which of the following rulers' reigns the billion currency seems to have nearly entirely replaced silver coinage ?

Which one of the following statements is true about the stand of the communist party of India during the India-China war of 1962 ?

The first pilgrim centre for the Sikhs, symbolized with the construction of a well with 84 steps, to reach the water for bathing, which became sacred for the Sikhs was established by which one of the following Sikh Gums and at which place ?

Which of the following statements about Chokhamela are correct ?
(a) Chokhamela was a Varkari Saint
(b) His poems express devotion for Vitthal
(c) As a great devotee of Vitthala, after his death his samadhi was built inside the Vitthala temple at Pandharpur
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Which of the following suttas are associated with the Dighanikaya ?
(a) Brahmajala Sutta
(b) Mahapadana Sutta
(c) Mahaparinibbana Sutta
(d) Samannaphala Sutta
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Which female social reformer wrote the short stories Sultana's Dream (1905) and Avarodhbasini (1929), criticizing the custom of purdah among Muslims ?

Given below are two statements :
Statement (I) : Hoes and sickles, small weapons and horse trappings of iron have been found at megalithic sites
Statement (II) : Maski and Nagarjunakonda are megalithic sites
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Chronologically arrange various Farman’s/memorandum issued by Mughal emperors/nobles :
(a) Akbar’s Farman to Ram Das
(b) Raja Todarmal’s memorandum on revenue administration
(c) Farman to Muhammad Hashim
(d) Farman to Resides Karori
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After Gwalior compaign in 1232, a commemorative coin was struck to mark the victory . Whose name was inscribed on the coin along with that of iiotutmish ?

Which of the following Sailendra rulers are known to have had friendly relations with their contemporary Indian kings ?
(a) Samaragravira
(b) Balaputrdeve
(c) Chudamanivarman
(d) Sri-Maravijayottungavarman
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Chronologically arrange the following treaties starting from the earliest :
(a) The Treaty of Srirangpattanam
(b) The Treaty of Lahore
(c) The Treaty of Bassien (Vasai)
(d) The Treaty of Allahabad and Kara
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Which one of the following statements in not true ?

Digambar Biwa’s and Bishnu Biswas led which of the following movement in 1859-60 ?

Which of the following statements are true about colonial cities ?
(a) Delhi, Agra  and Lahore lost much of their older glory
(b) Dacca, Murshidabad and Patna came into prominence in the British period
(c) The Victoria Terminal station of Bombay was built after Mughal architectural style
(d) According to C.A. Bayle, there was a significant expansion of small towns in the mid-Ganga region from around the 1720s
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Match List I with List II :
        List I                                                                            List II
    (Monument)                                                                  (Calligrapher)
(a) Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri                                 (i) Baqi Muhammad
(b) Atagha Khan’s tomb, Delhi                                         (ii) Abd al Nabi al Quraishi
(c) Shah Begum’s tomb, Allahabad                                 (iii) Ahmad al Chisthi
(d) Itimad ud daul’s tomb, Agra                                        (iv) Mir Abdulla Mushkin Qalam
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Match List-1 with List-II :
            List I                                                       List II
(Yakshinis or Sasana devata)                      (Association with Tirthankaras)
(a) Siddhayika                                              (i) Adinatha
(b) Chakresvari                                            (ii) Neminatha
(c) Ambika                                                   (iii) Parsvanatha
(d) Padmavati                                              (iv) Mahavira
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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) : Devaraya 11 strengthened the military base of the kingdom by improving the quality of war horses and the training of horsemen and archers. He established deeper political control over west-coast emporia, thus linking military reform with international commerce
Reason (R) : Military and administrative dominance over the major ports on the Arabian Sea provided Devaraya II with a new and different source of state finance
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

Lajahoma was a part of :

Which of the following combinations of Indian revolutionaries abroad and their newspaper not correct ?
(a) Tarak Nath Das                                    -           Circular-e-Azadi
(b) Ramnath Puri                                      -           Free Hindusthan
(c) Shyamji Krishna Verma                       -           Indian Sociologist
(d) Indu Bhushan Dey Mazumdar            -           Gaelic American
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In which of the following texts are the Sabah and the Samiti mentioned as the two daughters of a Vedic deity ?

Who wrote the dictum: "all history is the history of ideas" .

Who founded the autonomous kingdom of Hyderabad in 1724 ?

"At some times and places there will be no roads, docks, harbours, canals, works of irrigation, hospitals, schools, colleges, printing presses, unless the government establishes them".
The above quotation from John Stuart Mill's Political Economy refers to which policy adopted by the Company government ?

During the Saka-Satavahana period the range of interest on fixed deposit (akshayanivi) as described in the inscription of Nasik Cave No. 10 was :

Who among the following travellers visited a "Hospital of Birds" at Cambay in 1623-24, where he saw some lame, sick and mateless birds and some tiny orphan mice. He writes, "A venerable old man with a white beard was keeping them in a box amongst cotton, with his spectacles on his nose, giving them milk to eat with a bird's feather, because they were so little that as yet they could eat nothing else, and as he told us. he intended when they are grown up to let them go free whither they please" .

Arrange Akbar's following victories in chronological order :
(a) Sind            (b) Khandesh
(c) Bengal        (d) Kabul
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Which of the following located in Rajasthan ?

Which of the following statements are correct about the balutedars of Deccan ?
(a) Balutedars were village servants and artisans
(b) Watandarbalutedar had a permanent right to work and receive remunerations in the village
(c) Uparibalutedars had no permanent rights in the village and were migratory
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Raziya's accession to the throne of Delhi was marked by which of the following features ?
(a) The people of Delhi had for the first time in the history of the Delhi Sultanate, decided a succession issue on their own initiative. Thereafter the support of the Delhi population constituted the main source of Raziya's strength
(b) She gave her accession the form of a contract when she asked people of depose her if she did not fulfil their expectations
(c) It shows the robustness of the Turkish mind in accepting a woman as ruler
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Arrange the following Gurjarapratihara kings in chronological order :
(a) Mahendrapala-I
(b) Mihirabhoja
(c) Nagabhatta-II
(d) Vatsaraja
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Who played an important role in distribution of Gautama Buddha's sarira-dhatu (relics) after his Mahaparinirvana ?

With regard to the Mughal finance system which of the following statements are correct ?
(a) There was a well-developed system of finance and credit in Mughal India
(b) The use of hundis or bills of exchange was widespread
(c) There was no insurance system hence risks of loss in transit were very high
(d) Transport across land was itself costlier, it was more vulnerable to the exactions of chiefs and rebels
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Name the Sultan who, because of his generosity, was also known as Lakh Bakhsh

Which among the following Persian painters of father-son duo joined Humayun's court ?

Who among the following kings mentioned in the Rajatarangini personally went to a leather worker (charmakara) with a request to get a small piece of land of his cottage needed for the construction of temple of Tribhuvanasvami ?

The punishment for theft differed from Varna to Varna. Who among the following was given the highest punishment ?

He took keen interest in debates, and when Srinatha defeated his court poet, Dindima, in a disputation, he honoured the former with the title of Kavi Sarvabhauma, and 'bathed him in gold coins'. Identify this Vijayanagar ruler :

Arrange chronologically the following queens who played an important role in the administration and culture of ancient Kashmir mentioned by Kalhana :
(a) Didda                                          (b) Radda
(c) Sugandha                                   (d) Suryamati
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Match List-I with List-II :
   List-I                                                             List-II
(a) Mullai                                                       (i) Arid rerrain
(b) Palai                                                        (ii) Riverine tract
(c) Kurinchi                                                   (iii) Pastoral region
(d) Marutam                                                 (iv) Mountainous region
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Arrange the following archaeological cultures of India in chronological order :
(a) Kot Diji Culture
(b) Jorwe culture
(c) Malwa culture
(d) Kayatha culture
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Which of the following cave temples of Ellora are related to Brahmanical religion ?
(a) Dhumera Lena
(b) Indra-Sabha
(c) Jagannatha Sabha
(d) Ravana Ki Khai
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Which of the following dynasties traced its origin from Asura Naraka ?
(a) Bhanjas of Orissa
(b) Palas of Bengal
(c) Sailodbhavas of Orissa
(d) Varmanas of Assam
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Regarding Shershah Suri, which of the following statements are correct ?
(a) To promote trade and commerce, Shereshah struck fine coins of silver and copper of uniform standards in place of the debased coins of mixed metals of earlier times
(b) He also made some effort to standardize weights and measures
(c) In his empire, goods paid customs duty only two times-at the place of entry and at the time of sale
(d) He built a number of sarais which exclusively served as the resting places for the travellers only
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Which of the following statements are correct about the linguistics reorganization of Indian states ?
(a) The Linguistic Provinces Commission of 1948 was headed by SardarVallabhbhai Patel
(b) In 1952, Potti Sriramulu undertook a fast unto death over the demand for a separate Andhra state
(c) The States Reorganization Act was passed by the Parliament as late as 1968
(d) In the case of Punjab, the Akali Dal and the Hindu right wing supported each other
(e) Article 347 of the constitution protects the rights of linguistic minorities
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Isvarakrishna was :

The Jaina council at Valabhi was presided over by :

Match List-1 with List-II :
     List-I                                                  List-II
   (Books)                                             (Authors)
(a) Sanjay Joshi                              (i) Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
(b) Nicholas B. Dirks                      (ii) Fractured Modernity Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India
(c) Bernard S. Cohn                       (iii) Castes of Mind Colonialism North India
(d) Eric Hobsbawm                        (iv) Fractured Time-Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
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Which of the following officers were known for water arrangement of their provinces ?
(a) Suyya
(b) Pushyagupta
(c) Tushaspa
(d) Suvisakha
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Which of the following statements regarding Balban's theory of kingship are correct ?
(a) Kingship is the vice-regency of God on earth. The king is the shadow of God
(b) External dignity and prestige were not considered as essential for Kingship
(c) A distinction between the high-born and the low-born was constantly emphasized by Balban
(d) Balban believed that Persian customs and ways of life are not necessary to emulate
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Match List-I with List-II : 
   List I                                                  List-II
  (Author)                                            (Books)
(a) Lewis Mumford                           (i) Vande Mataram-The Biography of a Song
(b) Catherine Arnold                        (ii) Masks of Conquest Literary study and British Rule in India
(c) Gauri Viswanathan                     (iii) Pandemic-1918
(d) Sabyasachi Bhattacharya          (iv) The City in History
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The royal orders issued by the Rashtrakuta kings and recorded by their secretaries were known as :

Which Sikh patriot was tried and executed by the British Government in 1940 for the murder of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, who was involved in the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre ?

Which of the following inscriptions suggests a time reckoning starting from the Bharata war ?

On 27th December 1891, which socioreligious reform movement met for its first general gathering in Qadiyan, Punjab ?

Arrange the following landmark legal cases chronologically starting from the earliest :
(a) Pulmonic Case
(b) Vijialakshmi Case
(c) Maharaja Libel case
(d) Rukhmabai case
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Match List-I with List-II :
  List-I                                                         List-II
(Mughal Ruler)                                        (Approximate Khalisa share in total Jama)
(a) Akbar                                                (i) 1/20th
(b) Jahangir                                           (ii) 1/5th
(c) Shahjahan                                       (iii) 1/4th
(d) Aurangzeb                                       (iv) 1/7th
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Which of the following historians claimed that Abar's empire in 1592 was said to contain as many as 120 cities and 3.200 towns ?

Which of the following pairs indicate female teachers according to ancient grammarians ?

Apararka the famous commentator of Yajnavalkya Smriti was the king of :

Arrange the sequence of following parts of Orissian temples starting from bottom to top :
(a) Baranda
(b) Beki
(c) Khapuri
(d) Pabhaga
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In the Early Vedic Period, who was the vrajapati ?

Who among the following was the first to become a Jaina nun ?