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Contents
Section A : HISTORY
1. Indus Valley Civilization
A-1–A-166
1-9
2. Vedic Period and Religious Movements
10-26
3. Maurya Period and Post Mauryan Period
27-39
4. Gupta Period and Post Gupta Period
40-66
5. Ancient History (Miscellaneous)
67-72
6. Delhi Sultanate
73-91
7. Mughal Period
92-109
8. Initial Modern History
110-130
9. Indian Freedom Struggle - I (1857-1917)
131-145
10.Indian Freedom Struggle - II (1917-1947)
146-166
Section B : GEOGRAPHY
1. Astronomy
2. Physical Geography
B-1–B-36
1-6
7-13
3. Economic Geography
14-20
4. World Geography
21-28
5. Geography of India
29-36
Section C : INDIAN POLITY & GOVERNANCE
1. Indian Constitution
C-1–C-40
1-15
2. Political System
16-26
3. Panchayati Raj and Public Policy
27-33
4. Judiciary
34-40
Section D : ECONOMICS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Indian Economy
Planning and Economic Development
Agriculture in Indian Economy
Industry World Economy Section E : GENERAL SCIENCE
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Physics
Chemistry
Biology (Zoology, Botany, Diseases)
Environment and Ecology
Science and Technology
Section F : GENERAL AWARENESS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Art and Culture
National and International Awards
Books and Authors Sports and Games Miscellaneous
Section G : CURRENT AFFAIRS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
National Issues
International Issues
Economical Issues
Awards and Honours
Sports and Games
Science and Technology
Miscellaneous
D-1–D-34
1-9
10-16
17-22
23-28
29-34
E-1–E-78
1-15
16-25
26-59
60-68
69-78
F-1–F-32
1-5
6-13
14-17
18-23
24-32
G-1–G-64
1-11
12-22
23-28
29-36
37-45
46-57
58-64
Section A : History
Indus Valley Civilization
1.
2.
Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in:
(a) 1911
(b) 1921
(c) 1931
(d) 1941
Almost the people of Indus Valley Civilization
were:
(a) Nigroid
(b) Proto-Austroloid
(c) Mediterranean (d) Nordic
3. Which metal was unknown to Indus Valley
Civilization?
(a) Gold
(b) Silver
(c) Copper
(d) Iron
4. The nature of Indus Valley Civilization was:
(a) Urban
(b) Rural
(c) Agricultural
(d) None of these
5. Indus Valley Civilization belongs to:
(a) Pre-historical
(b) Historical period
(c) Proto-historical (d) Post-historical
6. A statue of bearded man was found at
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Chanhudaro
(d) Dholavira
7. In Indus Valley Civilization, the script was:
(a) Kharosthi
(b) Brahmi
(c) Boustrophedus (d) None of these
8. Which of the following is the latest site found?
(a) Dholavira
(b) Amri
(c) Lothal
(d) Kalibangan
9. Harappa is located on the bank of river:
(a) Indus
(b) Ravi
(c) Beas
(d) Sutlej
10. The local name of Mohenjodaro is:
(a) Mound of Living (b) Mound of Survivor
(c) Mound of Dead (d) Mound of Great
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11. Which of the following animals was unknown in
Indus Valley Civilization?
(a) Lion
(b) Bull
(c) Elephant
(d) Horse
12. Which one of the following Indus Valley
Civilization sites gives evidence of a dockyard?
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Lothal
(d) Dholavira
13. Which one of the following Indus Valley
Civilization sites gives evidence of a stadium?
(a) Harappa
(b) Kalibangan
(c) Mohenjodaro
(d) Dholavira
14. The people of Indus Valley Civilization usually
built their houses of:
(a) Pucca bricks
(b) Wood
(c) Stone
(d) None of these
15. A seal depicting Mother Goddess with plant
growing from the womb, has been found from:
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Dholavira
16. Indus Valley Civilization was discovered by:
(a) Dayaram Sahni (b) R.D. Banerji
(c) Cunningham
(d) Wheeler
17. A lot of beads were discovered from:
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Lothal
(d) Dholavira
18. Almostly, beads were made of:
(a) Terracotta
(b) Jasper
(c) Lapis
(d) Steatite
19. Which of the following cannot be considered
Proto-Harappan culture?
(a) Sothi culture
(b) Jornie culture
(c) Kot-Diji culture (d) Amri culture
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20. Which of the following showed the greatest
uniformity in Indus Civilization settlement?
(a) Town planning
(b) Bricks
(c) Religious practices
(d) Building
21. The site of Mohenjodaro is located on the bank of
river:
(a) Ravi
(b) Beas
(c) Indus
(d) Sutlej
22. The site of Mohenjodaro was discovered by:
(a) Dayaram Sahni (b) R.D. Banerji
(c) N.G. Majumdar (d) S.R. Rao
23. The largest of sites found in post-independence
India in:
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Gujarat
(c) Punjab
(d) Haryana
24. The best drainage system (water management) in
Indus Valley Civilization was:
(a) Harappa
(b) Lothal
(c) Mohenjodaro
(d) Kalibangan
25. The famous dancing girl found in the Mohenjodaro
was made up of:
(a) Bronze
(b) Red limestone
(c) Steatite
(d) Terracotta
26. The unique structure in Mohenjodaro was:
(a) Bathing pool
(b) Assembly hall
(c) Granary
(d) Dockyard
27. In which of the following Indus Valley sites the
famous Bull-seal was found?
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Lothal
(d) Chanhudaro
28. Which of the following Indus Valley Civilization
site was located on the Iranian border?
(a) Surkotada
(b) Sutkagen Dor
(c) Kot Diji
(d) Balakot
29. In which of the following Indus Valley sites, the
cemetry R-37 was found?
(a) Lothal
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Harappa
(d) Dholavira
30. Which of the following is the most common motif
of the Indus seals?
(a) Elephant
(b) Bull
(c) Rhinoceros
(d) Unicorn
31. The dockyard at Lothal was well connected with
the river:
(a) Ghaggar
(b) Bhogavo
(c) Narmada
(d) Tapti
32. The Indus Valley Civilization people traded with
the:
(a) Romans
(b) Parthians
(c) Mesopotamians (d) Chinese
33. Which of the following was unknown in Indus
Valley Civilization?
(a) Wheat
(b) Pulses
(c) Barley
(d) Cotton
34. Which type of seals was the most popular in
Harappan culture?
(a) Oval
(b) Cylindrical
(c) Rounded
(d) Quadrate
35. Remains of horse bares have been found from:
(a) Mohenjodaro
(b) Lothal
(c) Surkotada
(d) Sutkagendor
36. In which of the following Indus Valley Civilization
sites, the cotton piece was found ?
(a) Mohenjodaro
(b) Lothal
(c) Harappa
(d) Chanhudaro
37. Which of the following was unknown in Indus
Valley Civilization?
(a) Construction of wells
(b) Construction of arches
(c) Construction of pillars
(d) Construction of drains
38. Which of the following Indus Valley Civilization
sites provides the evidence of fire-altars?
(a) Alamgirpur
(b) Kalibangan
(c) Banavali
(d) Kunal
39. The earliest evidence of agriculture in Indian
subcontinent has been obtained from:
(a) Brahmagiri
(b) Chirand
(c) Mehargarh
(d) Burzahom
40. Which of the following was not worshipped by
Indus Valley people?
(a) Shiva
(b) Peepal
(c) Mother Goddess (d) Vishnu
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42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
The excavation at Chanhudaro was directed by
(a) John Marshall (b) J.H. Mackay
(c) M. Wheeler
(d) Aurel Stein
A granary outside to citadel was found at:
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Lothal
(d) Dholavira
Which of the following Indus Valley Civilization
towns divided into three parts?
(a) Kalibangan
(b) Lothal
(c) Chanhudaro
(d) Dholavira
Indus Valley Civilization site Manda is situated
near the bank of:
(a) Sutlej
(b) Jhelum
(c) Chinab
(d) Indus
The archaeological finds from Alamgirpur in
Meerut district reflect the:
(a) Harappa period (b) Vedic period
(c) Budha period
(d) Mauryan period
Which of the following sites has a pre-Harappan
settlement not been found?
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Dholavira
The Director General of Archaeological Survey
of India at the time of the excavation of Harappan
site was:
(a) Dayaram Sahni
(b) R.D. Banerji
(c) John Marshall
(d) Mortimer Wheeler
The most suitable name of Indus Valley Civilization
is:
(a) Harappan Civilization
(b) Indus Civilization
(c) Saraswati Civilization
(d) Bronze Time Civilization
A clay model of plough has been found from:
(a) Banawali
(b) Kalibangan
(c) Rakhigarhi
(d) Mitathal
In the excavations of Harappan sites, bones of
camels have been founded at:
(a) Kalibangan
(b) Lothal
(c) Harappa
(d) Mohenjodaro
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51. A glaring evidence of the art of dance in Harappan
culture comes from:
(a) Lothal
(b) Harappa
(c) Mohenjodaro
(d) Kalibangan
52. Which among the following was the most extensive
Harappan city?
(a) Banavali
(b) Ropar
(c) Lothal
(d) Rakhigarhi
53. From which of the Harappan sites the evidence of
bead making has been found?
(a) Dholavira
(b) Ropar
(c) Chanhudaro
(d) Kalibangan
54. Name the site which has revealed the earliest
evidence of settled life?
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Mehargarh
55. The most common form of Harappan seal is:
(a) Cylindrical
(b) Rectangular
(c) Square
(d) Rounded
56. Which of the following is not depicted on the
Pashupati seal of Mohenjodaro?
(a) Rhinoceros
(b) Tiger
(c) Bull
(d) Elephant
57. Bronze statue of dancing girl has been excavated
at:
(a) Mohenjodaro
(b) Harappa
(c) Chanhudaro
(d) Kalibangan
58. Which one among the following sites is located in
the valley of Ghaggar and its associated rivers?
(a) Alamgirpur
(b) Lothal
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Banavali
59. Which of the Harappan sites has yielded evidence
of two cemeteries?
(a) Mohenjodaro
(b) Harappa
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Ropar
60. Which of the following sites was founded the
evidence of ‘Swastik’?
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Chanhudaro
(d) Kalibangan
61. Which of the following Harappan sites was found
the earliest evidence of surgery?
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Dholavira
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62. Which of the following Harappan sites shows the
earliest evidence of Earthquake
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Dholavira
63. Three-paired cemetry was found in:
(a) Kalibangan
(b) Lothal
(c) Chanhudaro
(d) Mohenjodaro
64. Which amongst the following is not a site of Indus
Valley Civilization?
(a) Banawali
(b) Rakhigarhi
(c) Hastinapur
(d) Ropar
65. On which object, do we mainly find the inscriptions
of Harappan civilization?
(a) On pillars
(b) On rocks
(c) On caves
(d) On seals
66. Which site of Harappan civilization has yielded a
beautiful bronze image of a chariot?
(a) Daimabad
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Rakhigarhi
67. Which amongst the following civilizations was not
contemporary with the Harappan civilization?
(a) Greek civilization
(b) Egyptian civilization
(c) Mesopotamian civilization
(d) Chinese civilization
68. In which Indus Valley Civilization sites, drainage
system was absent?
(a) Banawali
(b) Dholavira
(c) Lothal
(d) Rakhigarhi
69. In which indus valley civilization sites, the people
were known water reservoir technique?
(a) Banawali
(b) Kalibangan
(c) Dholavira
(d) Chanhudaro
70. Which of the following indus valley civilization
sites gives evidence of a Lipstick?
(a) Chanhudaro
(b) Banawali
(c) Mohenjodaro
(d) Kalibangan
71. The site of Alamgirpur is located on the bank of
river:
(a) Maskra
(b) Hindon
(c) Chinab
(d) Bhader
72. In which Indus Valley Civilization sites, both
citadel and lower town were fortified?
(a) Mohenjodaro
(b) Surkotada
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Lothal
73. In the Indus valley civilization period. LapisLazuli was imported from:
(a) Badakhshah
(b) Iran
(c) Mesopotamia
(d) Gujrat
74. The Indus Valley Civilization was:
(a) Father base
(b) Mother base
(c) Same rights of mother and father
(d) None of these
75. Which of the following was one of the causes of
Harappan decline?
(a) Ecological change
(b) Earthquakes
(c) Aryan attack
(d) All of these
76. A ploughed field was discovered at:
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Lothal
77. Which was the only Indus city without a citadel?
(a) Kalibangan
(b) Harappa
(c) Mohenjodaro
(d) Chanhudaro
78. Which one of the following sites has yielded
the cultural remains from Neolithic to Harappan
period?
(a) Amri
(b) Mehargarh
(c) Kotdiji
(d) Kalibangan
79. Which of the following ethenic races was not
founded from skeleton of Harappan sites?
(a) Alpine
(b) Mediteranean
(c) Mongoloid
(d) Negrito
80. Which of the following sites of Harappan culture
gives evidence of ‘Sindoor’?
(a) Harappa
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Naushero
(d) Balakote
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Hints & Solutions
1. 2. 3.
4. 6. (b) The Indus Valley was discovered by Dayaram
Sahni in 1921. It is one of the world’s earliest urban
civilizations alongside with its contemporaries,
Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. The Indus Valley
covers modern day Pakistan and the northwest of
India.
(c) Indus Valley Civilization had been a combination
of diverse racial elements. Certain anthropological
investigations and examinations of the human
remains show that four racial types existed in this
civilization namely Proto-Australiod, Mediterranean,
Alpinoid and the Mongoloid. Most of the people
belong to Mediterranean race.
(d) Iron was not known to Indus Valley Civilization
people. The first evidence of Iron is found about l000
B.C. from Ataranjikhera in Etah district.
(a) Indus Valley Civilization was urbanized, highly
developed and sophisticated. The ruins exhibit high
level of planning in the cities. Excavations have
indicated that the buildings were built with baked
bricks. The streets were well constructed at right
angles with an elaborate and covered drainage
system. The civilization also had public buildings
including the vast granaries and the Great Bath at
Mohenjodaro.
(b) A well-known piece of art of the Harappan period
is a stone sculpture of a bearded man discovered at
Mohenjodaro. His eyes are half closed indicating a
posture of meditation. Across the left shoulder is an
embroidered cloak. In the opinion of some scholars,
it could be a bust of a priest.
7. (c) Indus Scripts are popularly known as
Boustrophedon scripts which are still not deciphered
by the historians, researchers and scholars.
8. (a) Dholavira is the latest Indus Valley Civilization
site. This site was discovered by J.P. Joshi in 1967-68.
Dholavira is located at Kutch district in Gujarat.
9. (b) Harappa is situated on the banks of river
Ravi in Montgomery district of western Punjab (in
Pakistan).
10. (c) Mohenjodaro is not the original name, of
course, but one given by local villagers referring
to the ‘mound of the dead’: the tower and hillocks
of abandoned debris of bricks that they had their
forefathers had noticed in the surroundings.
11. (d) Animals like buffaloes, sheeps and pigs and
the humped bull were bred. Animals like elephant,
camels and dogs were also domesticated. There is
no evidence found about horses in the excavation of
Indus valley civilization.
12. (c) The Indus Valley Civilization site Lothal gives
evidence of a dockyard. Lothal was discovered by
S.R. Rao in 1954 A.D. The dockyard is located in
eastern side of Lothal.
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13. (d) Recent excavations at the small township of
Dholavira, in Kutch, Gujarat (India) have presented
to the world some of the oldest stadiums and sign
board, built by the Harappan civilization. One of
the stadiums, with terraced seats for spectators,
around 800 feet in length (around 283 metres) can
accommodate as many as 10,000 persons. The other
stadium is much smaller in size.
14. (a) Houses of Indus Valley Civilization were one
or two stories high, made of baked (Pucca) bricks,
with flat roofs. Each was built around a courtyard,
with windows overlooking the courtyard. The outside
walls had no windows. Each home had its own private
drinking well and its own private bathroom. Clay
pipes led from the bathrooms to sewers located under
the streets.
15. (a) Plant growing from the womb of women has
been found from Harappa on a seal. That represents
Earth Goddess.
16. (a) Harappan civilization was discovered in
1921–22 when two of its most important sites were
excavated. The first was excavated by Dayaram Sahni
and the second by R.D. Banerji.
17. (b) Many beautiful beads of blue lapis lazuli, red
carnelian, and agate stones of all colours have been
found throughout Mohenjodaro and were likely worn
by the women. Archaeologists have found beads
in such locations as the Great Bath, where bathers
probably lost them, and in the lower city, where bead
makers may have dropped them in and around the
kilns they used to make the beads.
18. (d) The vast majority of the beads are made of
fired steatite, which was a widely used raw material,
beginning with the Ravi period and continuing
through the Late Harappan period. Beads that are
made of hard stone, such as Agate, Carnelian, are
relatively less common, with a significant drop in
numbers for stones, such as Lapis Lazuli, grossular
garnet, serpentine and amazonite.
20. (a) The greatest uniformity is noticed in the layouts
of the towns, streets, structures, brick size, drains, etc.
Almost all the major sites (Harappa, Mohenjodaro,
Kalibangan and others) are divided into two parts–a
citadel on higher mound on the western side and a
lower town on the eastern side of the Indus Valley
Civilization settlement.
21. (c) Mohenjodaro is situated along the west bank
of the Indus River while Harappa is located 640 km
northeast of Mohenjodaro.
22. (b) The site of Mohenjodaro was discovered in 1922
by R. D. Banerji, an officer of the Archaeological
Survey of India, two years after major excavations
had begun at Harappa, some 590 km to the north.
Large-scale excavations were carried out at the site
under the direction of John Marshall, K. N. Dikshit,
Ernest Mackay, and other directors through the
1930s.
23. (b) The state which has accounted for highest number
of Harappan sites after independence is Gujarat.
Gujarat has been one of the main centre of the
Indus Valley Civilization. It contains major ancient
metropolitan cities from the Indus Valley such as
Lothal, Dholavira, and Gola Dhoro.
25. (a) The famous ‘Dancing girl’ found in Mohenjodaro
is an artifact that is some 4,500 years old. The 10.8
cm long statue of the dancing girl was found in 1926
from a house in Mohenjodaro is made of bronze.
26. (a) The bathing pool was the unique structure of
Mohenjodaro. It measures 11.88 × 1.01 × 2.43 mt.
The floor of the bath pool was made of burnt
bricks.
27. (a) On the site of Indus Valley Civilization, the
famous Bull-seal was found in Harappa. The Bullseal shows a humped bull displaying a strong and
energetic bull. The figure has been made well, a proof
of the fine artistic skills acquired by the people of that
time. Seals are mainly in square or rectangular shape.
This bull-seal dates to around 2450-2200 BC.
28. (b) Sutkagen Dor is the westernmost known
archaeological site of Indus Valley Civilization. It
is located about 480 km west of Makran coast near
the Iran border in Balochistan province of Pakistan.
Sutkagen Dor would have been on the trade route
from Lothal in Gujarat to Mesopotamia and was
probably heavily involved in the fishing trade
similar to that which exists today in the coast along
Balochistan.
29. (c) There are over fifty-five burial sites in the
Indus Valley were found in Harappa. The burials
are interpreted primarily as reflections of social
structure and hierarchy. The strongest evidence for
this interpretation would be burial sites in Harappa,
cemetery R-37 and Cemetery H. R-37 is the smaller
site compared to Cemetery H, and has about 200
burials. Archeologists believe it was a restricted
cemetery that was used by a particular group or family
that lived in Harappa.
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30. (d) The unicorn is the most common motif on Indus
seals and appears to represent a mythical animal that
Greek and Roman sources trace back to the Indian
subcontinent.
32. (c) The people of Indus Valley Civilization mainly
traded with the Mesopotamians. Dilmun and Makan
were intermediate trading stations between Meluha
and Mesopotamia. Meluha is the earliest name of
Indus area.
33. (b) In Indus Valley Civilization, pulses were
unknown. The chief food crops included wheat,
barley, sesasum, mustard, peas, etc. The evidence
for rice has come from Lothal and Rangpur in the
form of husks embedded in pottery. Cotton was
another important crop. A piece of woven cloth has
been found at Mohenjodaro. Apart from cereals, fish
and animal meat also formed a part of the Harappan
diet.
34. (d) Quadrate type of seals was the most popular in
Harappan culture.
35. (c) Surkotada site contains horse remains dated
to 2000 BC, which is considered a significant
observation with respect to Indus Valley Civilisation.
During 1974, Archaeological Survey of India
undertook excavation in this site and J.P. Joshi and
A.K. Sharma reported findings of horse bones at all
levels.
36. (a) The cotton piece was found in Mohenjodaro.
Traces of cotton fibres and textile fragments provide
evidences of production of cotton textiles from early
Harappan period. Cotton was a commodity the
people of Mohenjodaro probably exported, perhaps
in exchange for minerals, tools or other goods.
38. (b) Kalibangan – is an archaeological site where
ploughed field, bones of camel, circular and
rectangular graves, distinctive fire (Vedic ) altars with
provision of ritual bathing have been found.
39. (c) The site of Mehrgarh provides evidence for
the earliest agricultural and pastoral communities in
South Asia. The first inhabitants of Mehrgarh, dating
to around 6500 BC, were farmers who cultivated
wheat and barley as their main grain crops and had
herds of cattle, sheep and goats.
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40. (d) The numerous seals and figurines discovered in
the excavations carried out at various sites connected
with the Harappan culture point out to the religious
beliefs of the Indus Valley people.
Worship of Mother Goddess: A large number
of excavated terracotta figurines are those of a seminude figure which is identified with some female
energy or Shakti or Mother Goddess, who is the
source of all creation.
Worship of Pashupati or Lord Shiva: The
Pashupati seal in which the three-faced male god is
shown seated in a yogic posture, surrounded by a
rhino and a buffalo on the right, and an elephant and
a tiger on the left, make the historians conclude that
the people of those days worshipped Lord Shiva.
Discovery of a large number of conical or cylindrical
stones shows that the people worshipped lingam, the
symbol of Lord Shiva.
Worship of Trees: The worship of trees was
widespread. The Pipal tree was considered most
sacred.
Other Objects of Worship: People also
worshipped animals, such as the bull, buffalo and
tiger. Besides animals, these people also worshipped
the Sun, the Fire and the Water.
There was no evidence of the God Vishnu
worshipped by the people of Indus Valley
Civilization.
41. (b) Chanhudaro was investigated in 1931 by the
Indian archaeologist N. G. Majumdar and was
excavated in 1935-36 by the British archaeologist
Ernest John Henry Mackay.
42. (b) In Indus Valley Civilization, a granary outside to
citadel was found at Mohenjodaro. Because farmers
outside the walls of Mohenjodaro usually had their
own granaries, some archaeologists think that grain
stored within the citadel granary may have been
collected as taxes.
43. (d) The Indus Valley Civilization town Dholavira is
divided into three parts. The citadel, middle town and
the lower town were the three pre-existing planned
geometrical divisions in Dholavira. The middle town
had its own defense mechanism, planned streets,
gateways, wells and roads. Most of the buildings
were built with stones.
44. (c) Indus Valley Civilization site Manda is situated
on the right bank of Chenab river in the foot hills
of Pir Panjal range, 28 km northwest of Jammu.
Manda is the north site of Indus civilization. It was
discovered by J.P. Joshi in 1982.
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45. (a) The archaeological evidences found from
Alamgirpur in Meerut district reflect the Harappan
period.
47. (c) At the time of excavation of Harappan site,
the Director General of Archaeological Survey of
India was John Marshall from 1902-28. In 1921,
he focused on the Indus Valley, which led to the
discovery of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization,
the ancient cities Harappa and Mohenjodaro.
48. (a) Harappan Civilization is the most suitable name
for Indus Valley Civilization because Harappa lies in
the centre of Indus Civilization. It was also an urban
trade centre.
49. (a) A clay model of plough has been found from
Banawali. It is an archaeological site belonging to
Indus Valley Civilization period in Fatehabad district
of Haryana. Banawali is earlier called Vanavali,
is situated on the left banks of dried up Saraswati
river.
50. (a) In the excavation of Indus Valley Civilization
sites, the camel bones have been found at
Kalibangan.
52. (d) Rakhigarhi was a large Harappan town
known in 1963, when the area was first surveyed.
Archaeologists found it the biggest Harappan city,
larger and more extensive.
53. (c) The evidence of beadmakers’ shops has
been found at Chanhudaro and Lothal. Gold and
silver beads have also been found. Ivory carving
and inlaying used in beads, bracelets and other
decorations were also in practice.
55. (c) The square shape of the seal is the most common
form of Harappan seals, although there is great
variety in their size and shapes.
56. (c) Bull is not depicted on the Pashupati seal of
Mohenjodaro. The seal shows poor animals as an
elephant, a tiger, a rhinoceros and a buffalo.
57. (a) The most famous bronze ‘dancing girl’ figurine
discovered at Mohenjodaro. It is a female figure, with
right arm on the hip and left arm hanging in a dancing
pose. She is wearing a large number of bangles. It is
the first sculpture in dancing gesture discovered in
the Indian subcontinent.
58. (b) Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of
the ancient Indus Valley Civilization located in the
valley of Ghaggar-Harka river. Many Indus Valley
(or Harappan) sites have been discovered along the
Ghaggar-Hakra beds.
59. (b) The evidence of two cemeteries has been found
from Harappa. The strongest evidence for the burial
sites in Harappa are Cemetery R-37 and Cemetery
H.
60. (b) The Swastika is said to have originated in both
the Indus River Valley Civilization and in some
ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. A tablet with
Swastika has been excavated at Mohenjodaro.
61. (c) The earliest evidence of surgery was found from
Kalibangan. Archaeologists made the discovery that
the people of Indus Valley Civilization, even from the
early Harappan periods, had knowledge of medicine
and surgery.
62. (c) The earliest evidence of earthquake was found
from Kalibangan. B. B. Lal, former DG of ASI, said:
“Kalibangan in Rajasthan has shown that there
occurred an earthquake around 2600 BC, which
brought to an end the Early Indus settlement at the
site.
63. (b) In Indus Valley Civilization, the three pairedcemetery was found from excavation of Lothal.
64. (c) Hastinapur is not a site of Indus Valley
Civilization. Hastinapur was the capital of the Kuru
dynasty of kings. All incidents in the epic Mahabharata
have taken place in the city of Hastinapur.
65. (d) Most of the inscriptions are found on seals
mostly made out of stone. Some inscriptions are also
found on copper tablets, bronze implements and small
objects made of terracotta, stone and faience.
66. (a) A sculpture of a bronze chariot, 45 cm long,
16 cm wide, yoked to two oxen, driven by a man
16 cm high standing in it and three other bronze
sculptures a rhinoceros, an elephant and a buffalo
were found at Daimabad in the Ahmednagar district
of Maharashtra.
67. (d) Archaeologist Sir John Marshall thought that
the Indus Valley Civilization belonged to the period
between 3250 BC and 2750 BC. It is the period
when the Egyptians, Babylonian and Mesopotamian
Civilizations flourished. From the objects discovered
at the cities of the Indus Valley Civilizations,
historians have made a comparative study of the
contemporary civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt
and Babylonia. They came to the conclusion that the
Indus Valley Civilization was at its height of glory
during the period of the contemporary civilizations
of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Babylonia.
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69. (c) Dholavira had a series of water storing tanks
and step wells, and its water management system
has been called ‘unique’. The unique feature is the
sophisticated water conservation system of channels
and reservoirs, the earliest found anywhere in the
world and completely built of stone.
70. (a) The Indus Valley Civilization site Chanhudaro
finds indicate the use of lipstick.
71. (b) An Indus site has been discovered at Alamgirpur,
27 km west of Meerut. Alamgirpur is located on
the left bank of the Hindon river, a tributary of the
Yamuna.
72. (b) Surkotada was excavated in 1970-72 bringing to
light a three-fold cultural sequence and the settlement
patterns of the Harappans. A fortified citadel with
an impressive centrally placed gateway and wellarranged houses with lanes have been exposed both
in the citadel and residential complexes.
73. (a) The Sar-i Sang mines in the region of
Badakhshah in north east Afghanistan were probably
the source for all Lapis-Lazuli used by the ancient
people. So the people of Indus Valley Civilization
period imported Lapis-Lazuli from Badakhshah
(Afghanistan).
74. (b) The nature of Indus Valley Civilization was
mother base because condition of women was pretty
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good at that time. They were entitled equal honour
along with men in the society. The worship of mother
goddess demonstrates that they were respected in the
form of mother.
(d) Definite reason to the decline of the Indus Valley
Civilization is not known, as no reliable resource of
that period is available at present. Every conclusion
regarding the decline is based upon speculations of
historians. It is commonly believed that ecological
change, earthquake, Aryan attack, etc. were the
causes of Harappan decline.
(c) Kalibangan is distinguished by the world’s
earliest attested ploughed field.
(b) The best-known site of the cultural remains
is Mehrgarh. Mehrgarh is a neolithic site seen as a
precursor to the Indus Valley Civilization.
(d) The skeleton of Negrito was not found in any
Harappan site. Negrito refers to several ethnic groups
who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia.
(c) Naushero gives the evidence of Sindoor in
Harappan culture. The site of Naushero, located
6 km away from Mehargarh had developed Kotdijian
settlement. It was a smaller settlement but sharing
fully the developmental process towards maturity
of urbanization.
Vedic Period and
Religious Movements
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Vedic Period
Vedic literature is also known as :
(a) Shruti
(b) Smriti
(c) Sanhita
(d) Vedanga
Who was the founder of Vedic culture?
(a) Dravid
(b) Arya
(c) Harappan
(d) None of these
The word ‘Aryan’ denotes :
(a) Ethnic group
(b) Nomadic people
(c) Speech group
(d) Superior race
The staple food of the Vedic Aryan was :
(a) Barley and rice
(b) Rice and pulse
(c) Vegetables and fruits
(d) Milk and its product
Who is the most important God in Rigaveda?
(a) Agni
(b) Indra
(c) Varun
(d) Vishnu
Who wrote a book ‘Return of the Aryans’ ?
(a) Bhagvan Das Gidvani
(b) L.D. Kalla
(c) Avinash Chandra Das
(d) D.S. Trivedi
Which river has not been mentioned in Rigveda?
(a) Sindhu
(b) Saraswati
(c) Narmada
(d) Tapti
Which of the following is the major impact of
Vedic culture on indian history?
(a) Progress of philosophy
(b) Development of culture
(c) Rigidification of caste system
(d) Perception of a new world
Which of the following Vedic deities is not
mentioned in the Boghazkoi inscription ?
(a) Indra
(b) Agni
(c) Mitra
(d) Varun
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10. Who of the following was the God of morality
during the Rigvedic times?
(a) Indra
(b) Rudra
(c) Agni
(d) Varuna
11. The river Chenab was known during the Vedic
period by the name :
(a) Askini
(b) Parushni
(c) Shutudri
(d) Vitasta
12. Which one of the following assemblies was also
called Narishta meaning a resolution that cannot
be broken?
(a) Gana
(b) Vidhata
(c) Sabha
(d) Samiti
13. Which of the following does not come under
Shruti literature?
(a) Brahmana
(b) Vedanga
(c) Aranyaka
(d) Upanishad
14. The Vedic river Vitasta has been identified with :
(a) Ravi
(b) Jhelum
(c) Chenab
(d) Beas
15. Which of the following Brahmana texts belongs
to Atharvaveda?
(a) Shatpatha
(b) Aitareya
(c) Gopatha
(d) Panchavinsh
16. Who of the following led the confederacy of ten
kings against Sudasa?
(a) Vishwamitra
(b) Bharadwaja
(c) Vashistha
(d) Atri
17. Dasarajana was :
(a) ten incarnations of Vishnu
(b) a sacrifice to be performed by the king
(c) battle of ten kings
(d) None of these
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18. Which part of Rigveda gives an account of the
origin of the Universe?
(a) Second Mandala (b) Fourth Mandala
(c) Ninth Mandala (d) Tenth Mandala
19. The famous ‘Battle of Kings’ between Bharat and
the host of ten kings was fought near the river :
(a) Sindhu
(b) Saraswati
(c) Parushni
(d) Vitasta
20. Which one of the following Vedic Gods depicts
an association with the Sun?
(a) Ashvin
(b) Pushan
(c) Indra
(d) Brihaspati
21. Which of the following is concerned with origin
of Indian medicine?
(a) Rigveda
(b) Samveda
(c) Yajurveda
(d) Atharveda
22. Which one of the following is described in
Upanishad?
(a) Dharma
(b) Yoga
(c) Philosophy
(d) Law
23. Which of the following Purusarthas is not a part
of Trivarga?
(a) Artha
(b) Dharma
(c) Moksha
(d) Kama
24. Who of the following has opened that the original
homeland of the Aryan was Arctic region?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Max Muller
(c) Dayanand Saraswati
(d) A.C. Das
25. In Rigveda, maximum number of shlokas are
written in the memory of :
(a) Indra
(b) Brahma
(c) Vishnu
(d) Shiva
26. How many times the word ‘Jana’ occur in the
Rigveda?
(a) 75 times
(b) 175 times
(c) 275 times
(d) 375 times
27. Which of the following assemblies was normally
involve in the election of king?
(a) Sabha
(b) Samiti
(c) Gana
(d) Vidatha
28. The expounder of Yoga philosophy was :
(a) Patanjali
(b) Shankaracharya
(c) Jaimini
(d) Gautam
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The word Gotra occurs for the first time in :
(a) Rigveda
(b) Samveda
(c) Yajurveda
(d) Atharveda
The word Visamatta was used in the latter Vedic
Age for :
(a) The king
(b) The priest
(c) The trader
(d) The tax collector
31. In the Vedic Period, which animal was known as
‘Aghanya’?
(a) Bull
(b) Sheep
(c) Cow
(d) Elephant
32. Which of the following Samhitas of Yajurveda
contains only hymns and no prose?
(a) Katha
(b) Maitrayaviya
(c) Taittriya
(d) Vajasaneyi
33. The game of ‘dice’ was part of the ritual of :
(a) Agnistoma
(b) Aswamegha
(c) Rajasuya
(d) Vajapeya
34. The rivers Ganga and Yamuna are mentioned for
the first time in :
(a) Rigveda
(b) Atharvaveda
(c) Satapath Brahmana
(d) Chhandogya upanishad
35. The Gayatri mantra is dedicated to :
(a) Indra
(b) Aditi
(c) Gayatri
(d) Savitri
36. Who among the following was a Brahmavadini
that composed some hymns of the Vedas?
(a) Lopamudra
(b) Gargi
(c) Leelavati
(d) Savitri
37. The river most mentioned in Rigveda is :
(a) Sindhu
(b) Sutudri
(c) Saraswati
(d) Gandaki
38. The famous dialogue between Nachiketa and
Yama is mentioned in the :
(a) Chhandogyopanishad
(b) Mundakopnishad
(c) Kathopanishad
(d) Kenopanishad