Indian History MCQS 

Multiple Choice Questions on History| Indian History| Mediaeval Period in Indian History MCQ

1. Which one was built by Akbar?

(A) Agra Fort

(B) Qutub Minar

(C) Taj Mahal

(D) Red Fort

2. Who won the battle of Panipath II ?

(A) Babar

(B) Akbar

(C) Himu

(D) Shershah

3. Who was the founder of city ‘Kolkata’?

(A) Lytton

(B) Mansur Khan

(C) Job Charnok

(D) Saadat Khan

4. Kabul was captured by Akbar in —

(A) 1570

(B) 1575

(C) 1580

(D) 1585

5. Which Mughal ruler destroyed the Portuguese power in Bengal?

(A) Qasim Ali Khan

(B) Mahabat Khan

(C) Islam Khan

(D) Mir Abdus Salam

6. Which Mughal emperor was a great fan of painting?

(A) Humayun

(B) Aurangzeb

(C) Jahangir

(D) Shah Jahan

7. Who was the Mughal Commander-in-Chief in the battle of Haldighat?

(A) Mansingh

(B) Shayesta khan

(C) Bairam Khan

(D) Yaswant Singh

8. Nurjahan was wife of —

(A) Humayun

(B) Jahangir

(C) Babar

(D) Akbar

9. Which of the following city founded by Maharaja Jay Singh in 1727 A.D.?

(A) Amber

(B) Jodhpur

(C) Jaysalmir

(D) Jaipur

10. Who was the head of the Military department during Akbar’s time?

(A) Mir Saman

(B) Bakshi

(C) Dewan

(D) Mir Bakshi

11. When did Aurangzeb capture Golkunda into Mughal Empire?

(A) 1683

(B) 1687

(C) 1681

(D) 1690

12. Tomb of Jahangir was situated on the bank of the river —

(A) Ganga

(B) Jhilam

(C) Yamuna

(D) Chandrabhaga

13. Din-I-Ilahi was introduced by —

(A) Babar

(B) Humayun

(C) Jahangir

(D) Akbar

 14.Who wrote ‘Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri’?

(A) Jahangir

(B) Thomas Roe

(C) Amir Khusrow

(D) Gulbadan Begam

15. Which Mughal emperor tried to ban Sati system?

(A) Aurangzeb

(B) Jahangir

(C) Humayun

(D) Akbar

16. In which year Akbar conquered Kandahar?

(A) 1600

(B) 1605

(C) 1595

(D) 1556

17. Who introduced the Mansabdari system in India ?

(A) Jahangir

(B) Humayn

(C) Babar

(D) Akbar

18. Who was the Finance Minister during Akbar’s time ?

(A) Todar Mal

(B) Bairam Khan

(C) Man Singh

(D) Birbal

19. Which Mughal emperor was a great Veena Player?

(A) Jahangir

(B) Shah Jahan

(C) Aurangzeb

(D) Akbar

20. Who was the Mughal Emperor, when Captain Hawkins came in India ?

(A) Jahangir

(B) Aurangzeb

(C) Shah Jahan

(D) Humayun

21. Shivaji was a contemporary with whom?

(A) Akbar

(B) Sher Shah

(C) Aurangzeb

(D) Shah Jahan

22. Who propounded the philosophy of ‘Hindu Pad-Padshahi’?

(A) Bajirao-I

(B) Balaji Biswanath

(C) Balaji Bajirao

(D) Bajirao-II

23. The Supreme Court at Calcutta was founded in —

(A) 1772 A.D.

(B) 1773 A.D.

(C) 1774 A.D.

(D) 1775 A.D.

24. Who edited “Grantha Saheb” ?

(A) Guru Dindayal Singh

(B) Guru Arjun Singh

(C) Guru Hardayal Singh

(D) Guru Gobinda Singh

25. In which year Afjal Khan was murdered by Shivaji ?

(A) 1673

(B) 1655

(C) 1659

(D) 1650

26. Who was the Maratha Peshwa in the time of the battle of Panipath-III ?

(A) Madhav Rao

(B) Balaji Bajirao

(C) Raghunath Rao

(D) Balaji Biswanath

27. Who was the real introducer of the Wahabi Movement in India ? 

(A) Shah Waliullah 

(B) Syed Ahmed 

(C) Mir Nisar Ali 

(D) None of them 

28. Where did the Santhali Rebellion take place firstly ? 

(A) Dhalbhum 

(B) Manbhum 

(C) Bhagnadihi Math 

(D) None of them

29. Who was the Governor General during Sepoy Mutiny ? 

(A) Lord Dalhousie 

(B) Lord Amherst 

(C) Lord Canning 

(D) Lord Minto

30. Who started the Sepoy Mutiny first ? 

(A) Tantia Topi 

(B) Mangal Pandey 

(C) Nanasaheb

(D) Rani Laxmibai

31. Who was the Mughal emperor during Sepoy Mutiny ? 

(A) Shah Alam-II 

(B) Bahadur Shah 

(C) Bahadur Shah-II 

(D) None of them

32. When did the battle of Balakat take place ? 

(A) 1830 AD 

(B) 1831 AD 

(C) 1832 AD 

(D) 1833 AD

33. In which year ‘Bengal Gazette’ Published ? 

(A) 1770 AD 

(B) 1780 AD 

(C) 1785 AD 

(D) 1790 AD

34. In which year the ‘Land Lord Society’ was established ? 

(A) 1815 AD 

(B) 1828 AD 

(C) 1838 AD 

(D) 1840 AD

35. Who founded the ‘Hindu College’ ?

 (A) Alexandar Duff 

(B) William Carry 

(C) David Hare 

(D) William Jones

36. Who is called as the father of Modern India ? 

(A) Rabindranath Tagore 

(B) Vivekananda 

(C) Rammohan Roy 

(D) Vidyasagar

37. In which year the Indian National Congress was established ? 

(A) 1883 AD 

(B) 1884 AD 

(C) 1885 AD 

(D) 1886 AD

38. Who gave the theory of ‘Safety Valve’ ? 

(A) Lord Duffrin 

(B) A. O. Hume 

(C) Surendranath Banerjee 

(D) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

39. In which year the ‘Scientific Society’ was founded ? 

(A) 1860 AD 

(B) 1864 AD 

(C) 1870 AD 

(D) 1877 AD

40. In which year Calcutta University was established ? 

(A) 1857 AD

 (B) 1858 AD

 (C) 1856 AD 

(D) 1855 AD

41. Which of the following Governor Generals introduced Postal Stamp in India ? 

(A) Lord Canning 

(B) Lord Dalhousie 

(C) Lord Mayo 

(D) Lord Ripon 

42. Who was the political Guru of Gandhiji ? 

(A) Dadabhai Nauroji 

(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhle 

(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 

(D) Subhas Chandra Bose

43. Who was the introducer of the ‘Two Nation Theory’ ? 

(A) Md. Ali Jinnah 

(B) Md. Ikbal

(C) Syed Ahmed Khan 

(D) Fazlul Haque 

44. When did the Naval Mutiny take place ? 

(A) 1946 AD 

(B) 1945 AD 

(C) 1944 AD 

(D) 1943 AD

45. Who was called as ‘Frontier Gandhi’ ? 

(A) Mahatma Gandhi 

(B) Abdul Gaffar Khan 

(C) Soukat Ali 

(D) Md. Ali Jinnah 

46. Who was the first president of AITUC ? 

(A) Chittaranjan Das 

(B) Lala Lajpat Rai 

(C) Dewan Chamanlal 

(D) B. P. Wadiya

47. Who gave the slogan “Delhi Cholo” ? 

(A) Netaji 

(B) Gandhiji 

(C) Rasbihari Bose 

(D) G. S. Dheelan

48. In which year the system of Khalifa was abolished ? 

(A) 1920 AD 

(B) 1921 AD 

(C) 1922 AD 

(D) 1923 AD

49. Who wrote “India Wins Freedom” ? (A) Gandhiji 

(B) Jawaharlal Nehru 

(C) Subhas Chandra Bose 

(D) Abul Kalam Azad

50. In which year the Indian Constitution was accepted by the Constituent Assembly ? 

(A) 1946 AD 

(B) 1948 AD 

(C) 1949 AD 

(D) 1950 AD