Which Indian state was the first to accept Lord Wellesley’s Subsidiary Alliance in 1798?
Correct answer A. Hyderabad
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Indian History MCQs
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Which state was the first to be annexed under Lord Dalhousie’s Doctrine of Lapse?
Correct answer C. Satara
Sati was declared illegal in Bengal Presidency in 1829 by which Governor-General?
Correct answer C. Lord William Bentinck
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Which 1854 document is often called the ‘Magna Carta of English education in India’?
Correct answer C. Wood's Despatch
India’s first passenger train ran on 16 April 1853 between Bombay and which station?
Correct answer B. Thane
The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act of 1856 owed much to the campaign of which reformer?
Correct answer A. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Mangal Pandey’s act of defiance in March 1857 took place at which cantonment?
Correct answer C. Barrackpore
Which Sultan introduced the court practices of ‘sijda’ and ‘paibos’ to stress royal majesty?
Correct answer D. Balban
The system of branding horses (‘dagh’) and keeping descriptive rolls of soldiers (‘huliya’) was introduced by which Sultan?
Correct answer A. Alauddin Khalji
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Which general led Alauddin Khalji’s campaigns into southern India?
Correct answer B. Malik Kafur
Muhammad bin Tughlaq shifted his capital from Delhi to which city?
Correct answer A. Daulatabad
The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta served as qazi of Delhi under which Sultan?
Correct answer A. Muhammad bin Tughlaq
Firoz Shah Tughlaq brought two Ashokan pillars to Delhi from Topra and which other place?
Correct answer A. Meerut
The ‘Diwan-i-Khairat’, a department of charity for the poor, was established by which Sultan?
Correct answer A. Firoz Shah Tughlaq
Who founded the Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate in 1414?
Correct answer A. Khizr Khan
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Which Lodi Sultan founded the city of Agra in 1504?
Correct answer D. Sikandar Lodi
The First Battle of Panipat in 1526 was fought between Babur and which ruler?
Correct answer C. Ibrahim Lodi
The Vijayanagara Empire was founded in 1336 by which brothers?
Correct answer D. Harihara and Bukka
Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara wrote ‘Amuktamalyada’ in which language?
Correct answer D. Telugu
In which year was the Battle of Talikota fought, leading to the sack of Vijayanagara?
Correct answer A. 1565