Indian History GK Questions and Answers in English

1. Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor?
Answer --Jahangir

2. Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal india?
Answer -Auranzeb

3. Who was the Afghan ruler of India who se administrative system was emulated by the British?
Answer --Sher Shah Suri

4. Who organised a Maratha confederacy against the English leading to theThird Anglo Maratha War?
Answer --The Peshwa

5. What was the original name of Tan sen, the most famous musician at the court of Akbor?
Answer --Ramtanu pande

6. Which Indian ruler established embassies in foreign countries on modern lines?
Answer --Tipu Sultan

7. Which Rajput dunasties did not surrender to Akbar?
Answer - -Sisodiya

8. Which first Europeans came to India?
Answer --Portuguese

9. Sirajuddaulah was defeated by Lord Clive in which battle?
-Plassey

10. Which ruler had granted Diwani to the East India company?
Answer - -Shah Alam II

11. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to introduce the practice of ‘Sijda?
Answer --Balban

12. Which Sultan of Delhi imposed Jazfya on the Brahmins also?
Answer - -Firoz Tughlaq

13. What is the name by which Ashoka is generally referred to in his inscriptions?
Answer --Priyadarsi

14. During which reign did both Vardha man Mahavira and Gautama Buddha preach their doctrines?
Answer - -Bimbisara

15. Which dynasty was associated with Gandhara school of Art?
Answer - -Kushans

16. During which reign was the Purana Qila constructed?
Answer --Sher Shah

17. Which Gupta ruler was equally great in the art of peace, wars and personal accomplishment?
Answer --Chandragupta-II

18. Who destroyed the group of Forty Nobles?
Answer - -Balban

19. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar from which system was it borrowed from?
Answer --Mongolia

20. Which are Tile earliest Buddhist literature that deal lwith the stories of the various birth of Buddha?
Answer -- Jatakas

21. Which Mughal Emperor gave land for the construction of the Golden Temple at Amritsar?
Answer --Akbar

22. Which Gupta King is famous for his courageous stand against the Hunas?
Answer --Skanda Gupta

23. Which decisive battle was fought during the Third Carnatic war between the English and the French?
Answer --Wandiwash

24. Purushsukta is a part of which veda?
Answer --Rigveda

25. Who was the president of the First Buddhist Council held at Rajagriha?
Answer - -Mahakaassapa

26. In which year was the Indus Valley Civilsation discovered?
Answer --1921

27. What was Sher Shah’s real name?
Answer --Farid

28. During whose reign did the Mongols first invaded India?
Answer --Iltutmish

29. Under whose reign did Mughal Empire extend up to Tamil territory in the South?
Answer - -Aurangzeb

30. Who has been called the ‘Napoleon of India’?
Answer --Samudragupta

31. By whom was Nishat Garden built?
Answer - - Jahangir

32. Where did Shahjahan build the Moti Masjid?
Answer --Agra

33. What was the language of the Sata vahana inscriptioin?
Answer --prakrit

34. Who was the founder of the Nanda dynasty?
Answer --Mahapadma nanda

35. Which Mughal emperor’s tomb is outside India?
Answer --Jahangir

36. Shishunaga dynasty is credited to have destroyed which mahajanpada?
Answer - -Avanti

37. Mughal dynasty was to Bahadur Shah Zafar-as what was Lodi dyna sty to?
Answer --Ibrahim Lodi

38. Which Mughal emperor prohibited the use of tobacco?
Answer - -Jahangir

39. The kingdom of vijayanagar came into existence during which reign?
Answer --Muhammad-bin-Tughalaq

40. Who in ancient India assumed the title amitraghata?
Answer - -Bindusara