History: Most Important History One Liner Question and Answer part -3

History: Most Important History One Liner Question and Answer part -3

• Which Governor-General had welcomed Ranjit Singh with great respect at Ropd - William Bentinck
• In which fight was Nadir Shah defeated the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah – Karnal
• Who was the Governor General in the Second Anglo-Mysore War - Warren Hastings
• Where were the Nawabs of Murshid Quli Khan, Ali Vardi Khan and Siraj-ud-Daula – Bengal
• Where did the black-hole tragedy take place- Calcutta
• Who was the Nawab of Bengal during the Battle of Plassey - Siraj-ud-daula
• In which year did the British merge Punjab under their rule - in 1849 AD
• Who was the founder of 'Arya Samaj' - Dayanand Saraswati
• Who gave the slogan 'Return to the Vedas' - Dayanand Saraswati
• Who first introduced the idea of basic education- Mahatma Gandhi
• Who founded Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College in Aligarh - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
• A historical movement was organized against Raja Ram Mohan Roy- Sati system
• Who founded the 'Asiatic Society' in Kolkata in colonial India-William Jones
• The meaning of Sarvdayya is - uplift of all.
• Who was the founder of Satya Shodhak Sabha in Maharashtra - Jyotiba Phul
• Who first voiced the idea of a separate Muslim state in India? Mohammad Iqbal
• Who founded ‘Bharat Sevak Samaj’ (Servants of Indian Society) - Gopal Krishna Gokhale
• Who had the Revenue system during Akbar’s reign - Todarmal
• Attack on ‘chittgaon arsenal’ was done in whose leadership - Surya Sen
• Who is associated with Tashkent Agreement - Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Who advocated the policy of abolishing princely states in free India - J.L. Nehru
• Who was responsible for the integration of Indian Princely States - Sardar Patel
• In which year was the Muslim league founded - 1906
• In which year did the Congress lose its monopoly of power in the States forthe first time after the elections - 1967
• “Where there is no law, there is no freedom” who said this - John Locke
• Who was the famous Indo-Greek king who embraced Buddhism? Menander
• What is the subject matter of the Upanishads - Religion
• Who betrayed Siraj-ud-Daulah in the battle of Plassey in 1757 - Mir Jafar
• Who invited Babar to invade India - Alam Khan
• Who attended the Second Round Table Conference as the representative of the Congress -Mahatma Gandhi
• Who was the member of ‘Din-i-Ilahi’ - King Birbal
• With whom was the last opportunity to avoid the partition of India lost - Cabinet Mission
• Who is known as the ‘Indian Bismark’ - Vallabh bhai Patel
• Memories of Babur (Tuzk-e-Baburi) was written in which language - Turkish
• Who organised Ashwamedha Yajna in Gupta Period - Samudragupta
• Which group were related to ‘Tana Bhagat’ movement - Orann
• Who was thrice elected President of the Indian National Congress - Dadabhai Naoroji
• A Fortgotten Empire’, written by the renowned historian Robert Sewell, isabout which empire -Vijayanagar Empire
• Who proposed the name ‘Pakistan’ - Chaudhary RahmatAli
• Who was the oldest British monarch to sit on the throne - Elizabeth II
• By whom was the first estimate of national income in India made – Dada bhai Naoroji
• Where did ‘Parallel government’ form during Quit India movement - Baliya
• During whose Viceroyalty, Queen Victoria was crowned with ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ in Delhi Durbar - Lord Lytton
• Late Raja Ravi Verma, was an eminent figure in which field? Painting
• Who stated that there was no slavery in India - Megasthenes
• Who was the regent of Akbar? Bairam Khan
• By whom was the agitation against the partition of Bengal led – Surendra nath Banerjee
• Who was the Mughal Emperor to have lifted the Jaziya on Hindus - Akbar
• Who is known as ‘the father of India’s unrest’ - Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Against whom did Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement in 1919 in protest - Enactment of Rowlatt Act
• Who was the first President of the Indian Trade Union Congress in 1920 - Lala Lajpat Rai
• ‘Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ book was written by which person - Swami Vivekanand
• Who was the Governor General when the first Anglo- Burmese was started - Lord Amherst
• Who was the first Indian Hindi scholar of the Mughal period - Abdur Rahim
• Quit India Movement started after the failure of which proposal - Cripps‘ proposal
• Who wrote the song ‘Saare Jahan Se Acha’ - Muhammad Iqbal
• When the East India Company came into existence, by whom was Englandwas ruled - Tudors
• In which session was ‘PURNA SWARAJ’ adopted as its goal by INC - Lahore Session
• Who first started the civil services in India - Lord Cornwallis
• Which ruler had granted Diwani to the East India company - Shah Alam II
• Who named ‘Prayag Nagar’ as ‘Allahabad” - Akbar
• Who passed the Indian university Act - Lord Curzon
• By whom was Saka era founded - Kanishka
• Which Peshwas was popularly known as Nana-Saheb - Balaji Baji Rao
• Who was the President of the Indian National Congress, while theMountbatten Plan was accepted - J.B. Kripalani
• What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions - Brahmi
• At which place did Mahatma Gandhi start his first Satyagraha in India - Champaran
• Who was the British PM at the time of Revolt of 1857 - Lord Palmerston
• Who is considered to be the father of Ayurveda - Charaka
• Which Veda throws light on the beliefs and practices of the non-Aryans - Atharvaveda
• Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India - Aurangzeb
• What was Sher Shah’s real name - Farid
• Who earned the title of a ‘Liberator’ - Ashoka
• Who, was the Nanda ruler at the time of Alexander’s invasion - Dhana Nanda
• Which Chola ruler converted the Bay of Bengal into a ‘Chela lake’ - Rajendra I
• During which reign was Kalidasa lived - Chandragupta II
• The Gayatri Mantra contained in the Rigveda is dedicated to which deity - Savitri
• Which ruler was known as Amitraghata, the ‘destroyer of foes’ - Bindusara
• Under which sultan, Chalisa land increased considerably - Alauddin Khilji
• Which Mughal emperor’s tomb is outside India - Jahangir
• Who was the first foreigner to invade India - Darius I
• Who was the first governor of Portuguese in India - De Almeida
• During which movement was ‘Mahatma’ added before Gandhiji’s name - Champaran
• Who is the Father of local self-government in India - Lord Ripon
• Who introduced Mansabdari system - Akbar
• By whom was the Indian Independence League set up - Rasbihari Bose
• On which river did Pulakesin II defeat Harshavardhana - Narmada
• By whom was the city of Agra founded in 1504 - Sikandar Lodhi
• Who deciphered Adhikansh Inscriptions for the first time - James Prinsep.
• By whom was the practice of Sati was declared illegal - Lord William Bentick
• Which was the God of animal during the later Vedic period - Rudra
• From where sufi movement was started? Persia
• By whom was the famous ‘Kirti Stambha’ at Chittor built - Rana Kumbha
• Analects is sacred text of which religion? Confucius Religion
• Which Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar - Sisodiya
• Which ruler at first assumed the title of ‘Hazrat-i-Ala’ and afterwards ‘Sultan’ - Sher Shah Suri
• Who is related to Sarvodaya and Bhoodan movement - Acharya Vinoda Bhave
• Which Sikh Guru called himself the ‘Sachcha Badshah’ - Guru Hargobind
• Which was capital of Raja Ranjit Singh of Punjab - Lahore
• High Courts in Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras were established in which year - 1861
• With whom did Alberuni come to India - Mahmud of Ghazni
• Who destroyed the group of Forty Nobles - Balban
• Who was the daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb - Zebunnisa
• Who was the first speaker of independent India - G.V. Mavlankar
• Where was first Madrasa set up by the British in India - Calcutta
• In India, where did the Dutch establish their earliest factory - Masulipatnam
• Who was the writer of ‘the Indian War of Independence’ - V.D. Savarkar
• In which battle did Nadir shah defeated Muhammad Shah - Karnal
• By whom was the first Muslim invasion of India lead - Muhammad–bin–Qasim
• Who is the author of the book ‘Arctic Home of the Vedas’ - Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• First battle of Panipat was fought between which two armies - Babur and Lodi Empire
• In how many categories did Megasthenes divide the Indian Society - Seven
• Who was the governor general at the time of first Anglo-Maratha War – Warren Hastings
• Ashoka converted to which religion after the Kalinga war - Buddhism
• Who was the first Indian to get selected in ICS - Satendra Nath Tagore
• The only Viceroy to be assassinated in India was - Lord Nayi
• Which Freedom Fighter from Bengal died at the age of 18 - Khudiram Bose
• Which emperor shifted his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad - Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
• The people of the Indus valley civilization worshipped - Pashupati
• Who founded the Indian Social Conference - M.G. Ranade
• The ploughed fields have been found at which among the following sites of Harappan Civilization - Kalibangan
• Who among the following designed the famous structure of the Gateway of India - George Wittet
• During the reign of which king did Chinese traveller, Xuan Zang visit India - Harshvardhan
• Fort William of East India Company was located at - Calcutta
• Who founded the Swatantra party post-Independence in India - C Rajagopalachari
• Who was the nawab of Junagarh at the time of it’s accession to India? - Md. Mahabat Khanji III
• Asiatic Society of Bengal, founded by William Jones, was established in - Calcutta
• Who said that Vijayanagar empire is a forgotten empire - Robert Sewell
• Who wrote the book ‘Laila Majnu’ in the Delhi Sultanate period - Amir Khusro
• The civil Disobedience Movement was withdrawn - by Mahatma Gandhi in 1934
• Ibadat Khana at Fatehpur Sikri was used by Akbar - to discuss religious matters with various religious scholars.
• Who led the Mughals forces in the Battle of Haldighati against Rana Pratap of Mewar - Man Singh
• The Allahabad inscription is often associated with - Samudragupta
• Who drafted the constitution of the Muslim League, “The Green Book” - Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar
• The Mughal Emperor, who died a sudden fall the staircase was - Humayun
• which Englishman was honoured by Jahangi with the title of ' Khan' - William Hawkins
• Which Mughal Emperor prohibited the use of tobacco - Jahangir
• Akbar's land revenue system was known - Zabti system
• Who was regarded as ' Zinda Pir' - Aurangzeb
• The designation " Amil " in Akbar's time meant - Revenue Officer
• Who announced the ‘Permanent Land Revenue settlement’ - Lord Cornwallis
• Who was the 1st head of the Home Rule League established by Bal Gangadhar Tilak - Joseph Baptista
• Tilak launched Home Rule League in 1916 at -Belgaum
• Which rebellion was made famous by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s novel Anand math - Sanyasi Rebellion
• Veer Budhu Bhagat is related with which revolt - Kol Revolt
• French East India Company was formed in - 1664
• Raja Rammohan Roy established Brahmo Samaj in - 1828 AD
• When did Mahatma Gandhi launch the Civil Disobedience Movement - 1930
• Subsidiary alliance was implemented during the reign of - Lord Wellesley
• How many Tarangas are in Rajtarangini of Kalhana - Eight
• Who was becomes a member of ‘Jacobian Club’ - Tipu Sultan
• Who is regarded as “Maker of Modern India” - Raja Ram Mohan Ray
• English education was introduced in India by - Macaulay
• When was Poona pact concluded - 1932
• Mahatma Gandhi began his political activities in India first from - Champaran
• Whom did Gandhiji regard as his political Guru - Gopal Krishn Gokhale
• India and China signed 'Panchsheel Pact in the year - 1954
• When did the best of Gandhara sculpture appear - Kushan Period
• Who is known as the Napoleon ofIndia - Samudra gupta
• Who is known as The Frontier Gandhi - Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• Who is the first Nobel prize winner in Asia - Rabindranath Tagore
• Who is the first governor general of Independent India - Lord Mountbatten
• Who is the first and last Indian governor general of India - C. Rajagopalachari
• Who is the first foreigner to get Bharat Ratna Award - Abdul Gaffar Khan
• Who is the founder ofbCongress - AO Hume, 1885, Mumbai
• Who is the first Lok Sabha speaker - GV Mavalankar
• During which viceroy's period ‘Quit India Movement’ took place - Lord Linlithgow
• The famous Khajuraho Group of Monuments was constructed by the - Chandelas
• The painting of Bharat Mata was originally done by – Abanindra nath Tagore
• Slave Dynasty was founded by - Qutubuddin Aibak
• Which among the four ‘vedas’ is the oldest - Rigveda
• Subhas Chandra Bose started the ‘Azad Hiind Radio’ in - Germany
• The College of Fort William was established by - Richard Wellesley
• What is India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) called - Vikrant
• The story Gandatindu Jataka was written in which language - Pali
• When was the Indian National Flag adopted - 22 July, 1947
• Which Mughal emperor assumed the title Shah Alam I - Bahadur Shah I
• Who won the first Battle of Panipat - Babur
• Who gave the title ‘Raja’ to Raja Ram Mohan Roy – Akbar Shah II
• Who said “Sir Syed was a prophet of education” – Mahatma Gandhi
• Home Rule League was founded in 1916 by - Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Who was popularly called as the “Liberator of the Press” - Lord Metcalfe
• Who became first Indian speaker of the Central Legislature in 1923? - Vithalbhai Patel
• Where was the first village session of Congress held - Faizpur
• The famous poet Kalidasa lived in the court of - Chandra Gupta II
• Who wrote the famous book “Buddha Charita” - Ashwagosh
• In which state the folk painting madhubani is popular - Bihar
• In Indus valley civilization, Great Bath is found in - Mohenjo-daro
• The Nalanda University was founded by - Kumar Gupta
• Who was the first Indian to become member of British Parliament - Dadabhai Noroji
• Gandhi’s Salt Satyagraha was a part of— Civil Disobedience Movement
• Who gave the title ‘Raja’ to Raja Ram Mohan Roy – Akbar Shah II
• Who said “Sir Syed was a prophet of education” – Mahatma Gandhi
• Home Rule League was founded in 1916 by - Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Who was popularly called as the “Liberator of the Press” - Lord Metcalfe
• Who became first Indian speaker of the Central Legislature in 1923 - Vithalbhai Patel
• Where was the first village session of Congress held - Faizpur
• The famous poet Kalidasa lived in the court of - Chandra Gupta II
• Who wrote the famous book “Buddha Charita” - Ashwagosh
• In which state the folk painting madhubani is popular - Bihar
• In Indus valley civilization, Great Bath is found in - Mohenjo-daro
• The greatest king of the Pratihara dynasty was - Mihir Bhoj
• Who is referred to as 'Frontier Gandhi' - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
• Who is the author of the book ‘Arctic Home of the Vedas’ - Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• First battle of Panipat was fought between which two armies - Babur and Lodi Empire
• Which civilization is famous for its city/town planning - Indus Valley Civilization
• Swadeshi Movement started In India during - Anti-Bengal Partition Agitation
• Where did Mahavira attain Nirvana - Pavapuri
• The famous Khajurao Group of Monuments was constructed by the - Chandelas
• The Working Committee of National Congress sanctioned the resolution named 'Quit India' at - Mumbai
• The city of Vijayanagar is also known as - Hampi
• Sultan of Tughlaq dynasty issued copper coins instead of silver ones - Muhammad bin Tughlaq
• During whose Viceroy, the capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi - Lord Hardinge
• The Vedic Aryans first settled in the region of – Saptasindhva
• Pagal Panthi movement was organized in which state - Bengal
• Chandragupta Maurya spent his last days at -Sravanbelgola
• Megasthenes was the ambassador of – Seleucus I
• Who was the court physician during the reign of Kanishka -Charak
• who built sanchi stupa -Ashoka
• who was the prime minister of the court of chandragupta maurya - Chanakya
• who was the last mughal emperor - Bahadur ShahZafar
• Who were the first rulers in India to issue gold coins attributed to the Kings – Indo Greeks
• where was Gautama buddha born - Lumbini,Nepal
• where Gautam buddha delivered his first sermon - Sarnath
• where did Gautam buddha get enlightenment - BodhGaya
• where did Gautam buddha died - Kushinagar
• who was the first tirthankara of Jainism - Rishabhanatha
• who was the last tirthankara of jainism -Mahavira
• where did mahavir swami born -Vaishali
• where did mahavir swami died – Pavapuri
• Who wrote 'Nyaya Sutra' – Gautam
• What was the original name of Nur Jahan -Mehr-un-Nissa
• The Great Bath of Indus Valley Civilization is found at - Mohenjo-daro
• The freedom fighter who died in jail due to hunger strike was – JatinDas
• India’s famous Peacock Thorne and the diamond Koh-e-Noor were taken away by – NadirShah
• During whose Viceroy, the capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi – LordHarding
• Who came to India along with Mahmud of Ghazni during one of his Indian raids –Alberuni
• The Ranganatha Temple is situated at – Srirangam
• Gandhi Ji started the Non-Cooperation Movement in –1920
• When did first time demonetization took place in India – 1946
• The name of ‘New Delhi’ was given in which of the following year –1927
• The first Buddhist Council was held at – Rajagrih
• Who constructed the world famous Jagannath Temple at Puri - Anantavarman
• Which of the following was the oldest dynasty of India – Maurya
• Megasthenes was an envoy of which of the following kings - Seleucus
• Who among the following was an illiterate – Akbar
• Adigranth is the religious book of – Sikhs
• The famous book ‘Brihat Katha’ was written by – Gunadhya
• The capital of the Yadava rulers was – Devagiri
• The words “Satyameva Jayate” in the State Emblem of India were taken from – Mundak Upanishad