CUET Questions — History — CUET UG

Q35. Which details among the following were recorded by Ain-i Akbari? Identify the correct statements: (A) Account of the daily lives of ordinary peasants. (B) The arrangements made by the state to en

Q46. Identify the month and year of 'Jallianwala Bagh Massacre':

Q28. Put the following Viceroys of India in chronological order beginning from the earliest to the latest? (A) Lord Minto II (B) Sir John Lawrence (C) Lord Wavell (D) Lord Linlithgow Choose the correc

Q40. Who was appointed as the first Surveyor General of India in 1815?

Q13. Identify the correct statements about Ibn Battuta and his travels: (A) Ibn Battuta's book of travels, called Rihla, was written in Urdu. (B) It provides rich and interesting details about social-

Q34. The temple not built by Krishna Deva Raya (70 AD-1529) is:

Q2. Verses ascribed to Kabir have been compiled in three distinct but overlapping traditions. Which among the following is not one of them? 1. Kabir Bijak 2. Kabir Granthavali 3. Adi Granth Sahib 4. G

Q34. Which site has not been identified as a major city in the Indus Valley Civilisation? 1. Rakhigarhi 2. Dholavira 3. Ganweriwala 4. Kalibangan

Q11. Which traveller has described the practice of 'child-sati' in detail? 1. Duarte Barbosa 2. Francois Bernier 3. Peter Mundy 4. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Q5. The Khilafat Movement of 1919-1920 demanded that the jazīrat-ul-Arab must remain under Muslim sovereignty. Which region was not a part of jazīrat-ul-Arab? 1. Arabia 2. Syria 3. Afghanistan 4. Pale

Q45. When was the speech delivered by Gandhiji in Benaras? 1. January 1916 2. March 1916 3. February 1916 4. December 1916

Q17. In which year was the last Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah II, deposed by the British and exiled to Rangoon? 1. 1791 2. 1855 3. 1870 4. 1857

Q32. Identify the regions where archaeologists have found the terracotta models of the 'plough' and evidence of ploughed field?

Q14. Which stone inscription records the history of a guild of silk-weavers who originally lived in Gujarat?

Q18. In 1919, the project to prepare a critical edition of the Mahabharata was headed by: 1. V.S. Sukthankar 2. Alexander Cunningham 3. John Marshall and Alfred Foucher 4. Rajendra Lala Mitra

Q23. Choose the correct statements about the Virupaksha temple at Hampi: (A) The hall in front of the main shrine was built by Harihara and Bukka Raya to mark their accession. (B) It was decorated wit

Q22. Who described the kingdom of Awadh as "a cherry that will drop into our mouth one day"? 1. Lord Dalhousie 2. Lord William Bentinck 3. Lord Hardinge 4. Lord Canning

Q48. What does the writer mean by 'saving labour'?

Q19. Arrange the following events in a chronological order: (A) English East India Company acquires 'Diwani' of Bengal (B) Permanent Settlement of Bengal (C) Regulating Act passed by the British Parli

Q34. Match List-I with List-II: List-I Ruler (A) Asoka (B) Kanishka (C) Samudragupta (D) Rudradaman List-II Dynasty (I) Maurya (II) Gupta (III) Kushana (IV) Shaka Choose the correct answer from the