Indian History MCQ with Answers

41. Which one of the following cities was known as "Shiraz of East"

• A) Jaunpur
• B) Lahore
• C) Agra
• D) Lakhnauti

42. First Indian ruler to use rocket artillery in war was

• A) Hyder Ali
• B) Tipu Sultan
• C) Aurangzeb
• D) Babur

43. Who addressed Gandhiji as 'one man boundary force'

• A) Rabindranath Tagore
• B) Lord Mountbatten
• C) Jawaharlal Nehru
• D) Subhas Chandra Bose

44. Indian National Army installed the Indian National Flag in Kohima in Assam in

• A) 1941
• B) 1942
• C) 1944
• D) 1945

45. Who is also known as the Martin Luther of Hinduism?

• A) Swami Vivekananda
• B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
• C) Dayananda Saraswati
• D) Adi Shankara

46. Who first translated Bhagvad Gita to English

• A) William Jones
• B) Charles Wilkins
• C) Alexander Cunningham
• D) John Marshall

47. In which year, Mahatma Gandhi became the President of Indian National Congress

• A) 1921
• B) 1924
• C) 1926
• D) 1930

48. The war of Kalinga was fought in the year

• A) 261 BC
• B) 270 BC
• C) 253 BC
• D) 242 BC

49. Who is known as the Napoleon of India

• A) Samudragupta
• B) Chandragupta I
• C) Ramagupta
• D) Vikramaditya

50. Which Viceroy of India had established the Department of Archaeology

• A) Canning
• B) Ripon
• C) Curzon
• D) Mayo