100 Most Expected History Questions For NDA CDS 2023

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The NDA and CDS examination includes various question from History that tests a candidate’s knowledge of events and developments that have shaped the world. To assist aspirants in preparing for the NDA and CDS examinations in 2023, we have compiled a list of the top 100 most likely history questions. These questions cover a wide range of topics and periods in history, including ancient, medieval, and modern history, and are intended to assess the candidate’s knowledge, analytical skills, and ability to draw connections between historical events. So, whether you’re a seasoned history buff or just getting started, this list will give you valuable insight into the types of questions you can expect in the exam.

100 Most Expected History Questions For NDA CDS 2023

Below is the list of 100 plus History Questions that will finitely benefit you in the upcoming NDA 1 and CDS 1 2023 exams.

What is the name of the form of government which ruled Magadha?
Dictatorship
Democratic
Monarchical
Both ‘b’ and ‘c’

Which was the most important festival celebrated at Hampi?
Shivratri
Diwali
Mahanavami
Holi

What was the capital of the Maratha kingdom?
Poona
Nagpur
Bombay
Nasik

Dual Administration was established in Bengal by
Clive
Warren Hastings
Wellesley
Dalhousie

Which of the following statements was not a feature of the Permanent Settlement Act?
Zamindars were made the legal proprietor of the land
Most of the landlords did not take interest in the improvement of land
The state was assured of a fixed income
One-sixth of the produce was given to the Govt

The modern location of some old states is given below. Which is/are correctly matched?
Anga – Bhagalpur and Monghyr
Magadha – Patna and Gaya
Kasala – Avadh
Panchala – Badawn, Bareilly
Matsya – Allahabad
- All A, B, C, D, and E
- A, B, C, and D
- B, C, D, and E
- A, C, and D

Copper and bronze were used to make
Tools
Weapons
Ornaments
All of them

The first metal to be used by man was
Bronze
Iron
Copper
Stone

The people of the Indus Valley civilization worshipped the female form of
Mother goddess
Laxmi
Saraswati
Durga

The biggest building at Mohnejodaro was the
great granary
rectangular building
great bath
Assembly hall

The polity of the Indus Valley people was
Oligarchy (Merchants)
Secular federalism
Theocratic federalism
Theocratic unitary

Iron was brought to many civilizations by the
Turks
Greeks
Hittites
Huns

The first home of the Aryans was the
Punjab
Gujarat
Rajasthan
Madhya Pradesh

Agriculture was the main occupation of the
Aryans
Kushans
Guptas
Kushanas

Which of the following contains the Gayatri Mantra?
Yajurveda
Rigveda
Samaveda
Upanishad

Where is Harappa situated, according to the present map?
India
Pakistan
Afghanistan
China

Which one of the following gives the correct chronological order of the Vedas?
Rigveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda, Yajurveda
Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda
Atharvaveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, Rigveda
Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda

Ashoka was inspired by the teachings of.
Mahavira
Satyakama
Buddha
Pannini

After the Kalinga war, Ashoka
restored all the kingdoms he had conquered
abandoned the policy of physical conquests in favor of cultural conquests.
renounced his kingdom and became a sadhu
followed the policy of physical occupation more rigorously

What is meant by Janapadas?
The land where the Jana set its foot and settled down.
The land of shudras
The land of historical monuments
Museums

How are empires different from kingdoms?
Empires are larger than kingdoms
Empires need more resources than kingdoms
Empires need more officials who collect more taxes than Kingdoms
All of them

Where did Ashoka send his messengers to spread ideas about ‘Dhamma’? Choose the correct answer from the code given below :
Syria
Egypt
Greece
Sri Lanka
- Only (I)
- Only (ii) and (iii)
- Only (iv)
- All of them

Who wrote the biography of Harshavardhana?
Aryabhatta
Kalidasa
Shaka
Banabhatta

What was the name of Harshavardhana’s biography?
Harshacharita
Harshamanglam
Harshamanas
None of them

Ellora was built by
Pallavas
Chanakyas
Rastrakutas
None of these

Who built the town of Thanjavur?
Vijayalaya
Rajput
Rajendra Chola
None of these

Which changes did take place in the early medieval period?
Extension of agriculture
Migration of forest dwellers
Emergence of peasants
All of the above

When did Delhi first become the capital of a kingdom?
At the time of the Tomar dynasty
Tuglaq dynasty
Lodhi dynasty
None of these

What was Iqta in the sultanate period?
Territories of land
A tax
A form of the military
None of these

Muhammad Tuglaq Transferred his capital from Delhi to
Daulatabad
Sahibabad
Firozabad
None of these

Which sultan’s first campaign in South India?
Alauddin Khalji
Raziyya
Qutabdin Aibak
None of these

Under whose rule, was Ajmer the capital?
Mauryas
Chauhans
Guptas
Pallavas

Who introduced ‘Permanent Settlement’ in Bengal?
Lord Bentinck
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Wellesley
Lord Hastings

The English East India Company’s first presidency in India was at
Hooghly
Surat
Madras
Masulipatnam

The battle of Plassey(1757) was fought between
Tipu Sultan and East India Company
Haider Ali and East India Company
Siraj-ud-Daulah and East India Company
Mir Qasim, Shiraj-ud-Daulah and East India Company

Which of the following was twice made the Nawab of Bengal by the East India Company?
Siraj-ud-Daula
Shah Alam II
Mir Qasim
Mir Jafar

The Supreme Court in British India was established under:
The Charter Act of 1813
The Charter Act of 1833
Regulating Act of 1773
Pitt’s India Act of 1784

The founder of the kingdom of Awadh was
Safdarjang
Saddat Khan
Shuja-ud-doula
Asaf-ud-doula

The real founder of the British Empire in India was
Clive
Warren Hastings
Wellesley
Dalhousie

With whom was the Ryotwari Settlement made?
The Zamindars
The Cultivators
The Village communities
The Muqaddars

Bengal was divided during the Governor-Generalship of
Lord Warren Hastings
Lord Canning
Lord Curzon
Lord Hardings

The Government of India Act, of 1919 was based on
Simon Commission
Nehru’s report
Montagu Chelmsford Report
Minto-Morley Reforms

The Indian National Congress was founded by
Sir A.O. Hume
Lokmanya Tilak
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Mahatma Gandhi

The Conference in which the congress was divided into two camps-Extremist and Liberal was held in
Mumbai
Surat
Kolkata
Lahore

The way Gandhi adopted for Non-co-operation movement was
to inspire the army to revolt against British Government
to provoke the public into violence
to make people agree to surrender their titles and resign from Government jobs with peaceful means
to instruct the leaders to oppose the Government in Parliament

The Sati Pratha was declared illegal during the Governer Generalship of
William Bentinck
Dalhousie
Canning
Cornwallis

The Civil Disobedience Movement was started with the action that
the people offered themselves to be sent to jail
the Government was compelled to call Round Table Conference
the meeting was held against the Government
Gandhiji acted against Salt Act

The Forward Block was formed by
Subhash Chandra Bose
C.R. Dass
Bal Ganga Dhar Tilak
Gopal Krishan Gokhale

The Revolutionary who threw a bomb in the Assembly was
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Bhagat Singh
Ram Prasad Bismil
Sukh Dev

The Swaraja Party was organized by
Lala Lajpat Rai and Feroz Shah Mehta
Sarojini Naidu and Annie Besant
C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru
C. Rajagopalachari and C.Y. Chintamani

The Khilafat Movement was organized to protest against the injustice done to
Egypt
Arabia
Persia
Turkey

Which one of the following is incorrectly matched?
Bhagat Singh : Meerut Conspiracy Case
Ram Prasad Bismil : Kakori Conspiracy Case
Chandra Shekhar Azad : New Delhi Conspiracy Case
Surya Sen : Chittagong Armoury Raid

Who among the following did not attend the First Round Table Conference?
M.K. Gandhi
Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru
Dr. Ambedkar
C.Y. Chintamani

Railway and telegraph systems were introduced in India by
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Wellesley
Lord Bentinck

Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha in 1928?
Morarji Desai
M.K. Gandhi
Mahadev Desai
Vallabhbhai Patel

The interim Government formed in India in 1946 was headed by
C. Rajagopalachari
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr. Rajendra Prasad

“Do or Die” was the slogan that Mahatma Gandhi gave during the
Quit India Movement
Non-Cooperation Movement
Khilafat agitation
Civil Disobedience Movement

Hunter Commission was appointed by the British Government to probe into
Chauri Chaura incident
Demolition of Kanpur Mosque
Jalianwalla Bagh massacre
Kakori train dacoity incident

The moderate congress leaders demanded
no separation but representation
the immediate end of British rule in India
end of racial discrimination
introduction of English education

The Lahore session of the Congress in 1929 decided to
launch civil disobedience movement
to struggle for freedom
attainment of complete independence
None of these

The Quit India Movement was organized on
June 1941
8 August 1942
July 1943
July 1946

The first split in Congress took place in 1907 in
Calcutta
Allahabad
Madras
Surat

The Muslim League demanded partition in
1906
1936
1940
1942

Who among the following belonged to the moderate group of the Indian National Congress?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Bipan Chandra Pal
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Gopal Krishna Gokhale

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in the city of?
Agra
Meerut
Amritsar
Lahore

The slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ was raised by
Subhash Chandra Bose
Bhagat Singh
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru

What amongst the following were the main problems of India just after independence?
Refugees
Education
Princely states
Poverty
- I and III are correct
- II, III and I are correct
- Only II is correct
- All are correct

In the context of the Indian freedom struggle, 16 October 1905 is well known for which one of the following reasons?
The formal proclamation of the Swadeshi Movement was made in the Calcutta town hall
Partition of Bengal took effect
Dadabhai Naoroji declared that the goal of the Indian National Congress was Swaraj
Lokmanya Tilak started Swadeshi Movement in Poon

When was the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
August 6, 1945
August 8, 1942
August 9, 1945
August 9, 1944

Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah was the contemporary of
Akbar
Aurangzeb
Shahjahan
Muhammad Shah

The Indus Valley Civilization was famous for
Well-planned cities
Efficient civil organization
Development of Art and Architecture
All of these

Which one of the following began with the Dandi March?
Home Rule Movement
Non-Cooperation Movement
Civil Disobedience Movement
Quit India Movement

Which one of the following settlements comprised Zamindar as a middleman to collect the land revenue?
Mahalwari Settlement
Ryotwari Settlement
Permanent Settlement
None of these

Consider the following statements :
The discussions in the Third Round Table Conference eventually led to the passing of the Government of India Act of 1935.
The Government of India Act of 1935 provided for the establishment of an All India Federation to be based on a Union of the provinces of British India and the Princely States.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2

The Sun Temple of Konark was built by Narasimhadeva I. To which dynasty did he belong?
Somavamsi dynasty
Imperial Ganga dynasty
Suryavamsi Gajapati dynasty
Bhoi dynasty

What was the main difference between the Indus Valley Civilization and Vedic Civilization?
Indus Valley Civilization was urban, while the Vedic Civilization was rural.
The “Pipal” tree was worshiped in Indus Valley Civilization, while the “Burgad” tree was worshiped in Vedic Civilization.
The main emphasis in Indus Valley Civilization was on trade while in the Vedic Age was on religion.
Indus Valley Civilization believed in non-violence while Vedic Civilization had no hard and fast rules about violence.

Which one of the following is correctly matched?
Second Battle of Panipat – Akbar and Ibrahim Lodi
Battle of Khanwa – Akbar and Rana Sanga
Battle of Chausa – Humayun and Sher Shah
First battle of Tarian – Mahmud Ghaznavi and Prithviraj Chauhan

Who had demarcated the borderline between India and Pakistan?
McMohan
Lord Durand
Radcliffe
None of these

In Indian history, who was Abdul Hamid Lahori?
An important military commander during Akbar’s reign
An official historian of the reign of Shah Jahan
An important noble and confident of Aurangzeb
A chronicler and poet during the reign of Muhammad Shah

The parleys between Prime Ministers Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Indira Gandhi, so much referred to in world politics, were held at
Manali
Rawalpindi
Shimla
Islamabad

Which one of the following is not related to the continuing turmoil in Bosnia?
Serbs
Muslims
Jews
Croats

The Gulf war of 1991 was precipitated by the Iraqi annexation of
Bahrain
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
South Yemen

Who wrote ‘The Indian War of Independence, in 1857?
R.C Majumdar
V.D. Savarkar
S.B. Chaudhary
S.N. Sen

Dalhousie’s worst political blunder was?
Annexation of Punjab
Occupation of lower Burma
Abolition of the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’
Annexation of Oudh

The Congress is in reality a civil war without arms. The above statement was made by?
W. Wedderburn
Sir Saiyid Ahmad Khan
D.W. Bethune
Lord Dufferin

The Governor General of India at the time of the foundation of the Indian National Congress was?
Lord Chelmsford
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Dufferin
None of these

Which was the only session of the Indian National Congress, presided by Mahatma Gandhi?
Allahabad
Guwahati
Belgaum
Kakinada

The President of the Indian National Congress at the time of independence was?
J. B. Kripalani
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Jawahar Lal Nehru

The Grand Old Man of Indian politics was?
Bipin Chandra Pal
Dadabhai Naoroji
Surendra Nath Bannerjee
Rasbehari Bose

Gandhi’s Dandi March is associated with which among the following movements?
Partition of Bengal
Khilafat Movement
Non-cooperation Movement
Civil Disobedience Movement

Raja Ram Mohan Roy favored the banning of
Child marriages
Caste system
Sati
Widow exploitation

The Home Rule League was organized by
Mahatma Gandhi
Dr. Annie Besant
Lala Lajpat Rai
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

William Jones founded the following society in 1789
The Asiatic Society
The Bombay Society
The Indian Society
Calcutta Society

The founder of Ramakrishna’s mission was
Vivekanand
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

The first Indian newspaper to be printed was
The Times of India
Kesari
Bengal Gazette
None of these

The founder of the Ahmadiyya movement was
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Malviya Chirag Ali
Mirza Ghulam Ahmed
Shaukat Ali

The War of Independence of 1857 failed because
The revolution was not well organized
It was not supported by public
There were differences in opinions
All of these

The revolt of 1857 broke out for an immediate cause
a British interfered by introducing new social reforms like the widow remarriage act of 1856
banning sati and child marriage
greasing of the cartridges in the new Enfield rifle with the fats of cows and pigs.
banning polygamy

Who was the Governor General when the 1857 revolt broke out?
Canning
Hastings
Dalhousie
Curzon

Which of the following was one of the major political causes of the revolt of 1857?
The withdrawal of the pension of Nana Sahib
Lord Dalhousie’s policy of discriminate annexation and Doctrine of Lapse
The absence of sovereigns of British rule in India
After the defeat of the Sikhs and annexation of Punjab, the properties of the Lahore, Durbar was auctioned and the Kohinoor was sent to England

I hope you learned something new or even if not, these questions might have made your revision easier.

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