81. The earliest evidence of animal domestication and agriculture in India has come from
(A) Anjira
(B) Damb Sadat
(C) Kili Gul Muhammad
(D) Mehrgarh
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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82. After the Mahaparinirvana of Lord Buddha, the first Buddhist council was held at
(A) Rajgriha (Rajgir)
(B) Gaya
(C) Pataliputra
(D) Vaishali
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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83. Who among the following first issued gold coins on a large scale?
(A) Pushyamitra Shunga
(B) Menander
(C) Vima Kadphises
(D) Gautamiputra Satakarni
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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84. Who among the following was the first to explain that the rotation of the earth on its own axis accounts for the daily rising and setting of the sun?
(A) Aryabhata
(B) Bhaskara
(C) Brahmagupta
(D) Varahamihira
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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85. The ruler of Suvarnabhumi, who founded a Buddhist monastery at Nalanda and requested Devapala through his ambassador to grant five villages for its maintenance, was
(A) Dharanindra
(B) Sangramadhananjaya
(C) Balaputradeva
(D) Chudamanivarmana
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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86. Who wrote Periplus of the Erythraean Sea?
(A) Ctesias
(B) Pliny
(C) Ptolemy
(D) Strabo
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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87. The earliest description Bakhtiyar Khilji’s invasion Bihar is in
(A) Tarikh-i Hind
(B) Tabaqat-i Nasiri
(C) Taj-ul Maasir
(D) Tarikh-i Mubarak Shahi
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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88. Which Sultan demanded half the crops on land after measurement as revenue?
(A) Iltutmish
(B) Balban
(C) Ala-ud-din Khilji
(D) Muhammad bin Tughluq
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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89. Shaikh Bahauddin Zakaria belonged to which sect?
(A) Suhrawardi Silsilah
(B) Rishi Silsilah
(C) Chisti Silsilah
(D) Firdausi Silsilah
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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90. Who among the following rulers “divided his troops into units of two hundred, two hundred fifty and five hundred
(A) Bahlul Lodi
(B) Sikandar Shah
(C) Sher Shah
(D) Islam Shah
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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91. Who stated that five thousand to twenty thousand men worked for forty years to build the palace of forty pillars at Allahabad in Akbar’s time?
(A) Manucci
(B) Tavernier
(C) William Finch
(D) Abdul Hamid Lahori
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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92. Which Sultan was reputed to be ‘Akbar of Kashmir’?
(A) Sultan Shamsuddin Shah
(B) Sultan Qutbuddin
(C) Sultan Sikandar
(D) Sultan Zainul Abidin
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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93. Who began the Faraizi Movement?
(A) Haji Shariatullah
(B) Syed Ahmed
(C) Salimullah
(D) M. A. Jinnah
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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94. Who wrote the book, Poverty and un-British Rule in India?
(A) R. C. Dutt
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Bipin Chandra Pal
(D) Lajpat Rai
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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95. When were the rights of the tenants on land in Bengal and Bihar recognized by the Bengal Tenancy Act?
(A) 1868
(B) 1881
(C) 1885
(D) 1893
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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96. When did Bihar become a separate province in India?
(A) 1897
(B) 1905
(C) 1907
(D) 1912
(E) None of the above / More than one of the above
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97. Who invited Gandhiji to Champaran?
(A) Rajendra Prasad
(B) Raj Kumar Shukla
(C) Mazharul Huq
(D) Krishna Sahay
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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98. Who raised the Flag of Independence at the Congress Session of 1929?
(A) Maulana Muhammad Ali
(B) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Vallabhbhai Patel
(D) Subhas Chandra Bose
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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99. When was the Bihar Socialist Party formed?
(A) 1921
(B) 1927
(C) 1931
(D) 1934
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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100. Who among the following was the leader of the first Congress Ministry in Bihar?
(A) Anugrah Narayan Sinha
(B) Abdul Bari
(C) Jayaprakash Narayan
(D) Shri Krishna Sinha
(E) None of the above/More than one of the above
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