Trends In Indian Historiography Set 4

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Q1 | Which Purana contains the information about the Sathavahanas
  • vayu purana
  • bhavishya purana
  • matsya pura
  • shiva purana
Answer: matsya pura
Q2 | Historical writings of vamsa charitas were started in which century ?
  • seventh century
  • eighth century
  • tenth century
  • ninth century
Answer: seventh century
Q3 | Harsha Charita is written by which writer
  • bilhana
  • bana
  • jayanga
  • athulya
Answer: bana
Q4 | …......is considerd as the first historcal chronicle of Kerala
  • rajatarangini
  • harsha charita
  • prithvirja vijaya
  • mushakavamsa kavya
Answer: mushakavamsa kavya
Q5 | Mushakavamsa kavya deals with the dynastic history of the rulers of which region?
  • valluvanadu
  • thiruvitamkur
  • kolathunadu
  • venadu
Answer: kolathunadu
Q6 | Rajatarangini is the Chronicle on the kings of …......
  • kashmir
  • kerala
  • delhi
  • karnataka
Answer: kashmir
Q7 | 'only a poet can bring the past with eye of this mind by divine institution ' who statement is this
  • bana
  • jayanga
  • kalhana
  • athula
Answer: kalhana
Q8 | Ziauddin Barani served as an adviser to Sultan
  • firoshah tuglaq
  • jalaudhin khalji
  • ghiyasudhin thuqlaq
  • muhammad bin thuglaq
Answer: muhammad bin thuglaq
Q9 | Fatwa ­i ­ Jahandari is written in which language ?
  • arabic
  • hindi
  • persian
  • sanskrit
Answer: persian
Q10 | Abul Fazl was a historian in the court of
  • khalji
  • mughals
  • satavahanas
  • mauryas
Answer: mughals
Q11 | The book Akbar­nama was written by
  • abul fazal
  • athula
  • kalhana
  • bana
Answer: abul fazal
Q12 | Ain­I­Akbari is the ….......... part of Akbar­nama
  • first
  • second
  • third
  • fourth
Answer: third
Q13 | Which author translated Bhagawad Gita from Sanskrit to Persian ?
  • bana
  • abul fazl
  • dara shikoh
  • vyasa
Answer: dara shikoh
Q14 | Taikh ­i­Ferishta was written as per the instruction of which ruler ?
  • nizam shah
  • muhammad bin tuglaq
  • akbar
  • ibrahim adil shah
Answer: muhammad bin tuglaq
Q15 | Romila Thaper was the student of …........
  • basham
  • bipan chandra
  • eric hobsbawn
  • kosambi
Answer: basham
Q16 | Which group of scholars described the Indian post as oriental despotism ?
  • indian
  • colonial
  • arab
  • cambridge
Answer: indian
Q17 | Which among the following is not a work of Romila Thaper?
  • past and prejudice
  • lineage to state
  • knowing india
  • indian numismatics
Answer: past and prejudice
Q18 | Mushakavamsa Kavya was written in
  • 10th century
  • 11th centur
  • 12th century
  • 9th century
Answer: 11th centur
Q19 | Who among the following have written the medieval legendary and historical chronicle of the north­western subcontinent ,Rajatarangini ?
  • megasthenese
  • kalhana
  • al­biruni
  • herodotus
Answer: kalhana
Q20 | In which of the following years the Asiatic Society of Bengal was established
  • 1684
  • 1784
  • 1884
  • 1984
Answer: 1784
Q21 | Who among the following historians does not belong to the Marxist School ofthought
  • d. d. kosambi
  • r . c majumdar
  • romila thaper
  • irfan habib.
Answer: r . c majumdar
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