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#	Question	Subject and topic	Difficulty
1	Which Harappan site is known for its dockyard?	History Social differences and crafts	Easy
2	Who is traditionally credited with writing the Arthashastra?	History The Mauryan empire	Easy
3	Who wrote the Ain-i-Akbari?	History Sources: the Ain-i-Akbari	Medium
4	Where did the Revolt of 1857 begin, on 10 May 1857?	History Pattern of the rebellion	Easy
5	Who announced the discovery of a new civilisation in the Indus valley in 1924?	History Discovering the Harappan civilisation	Easy
6	Alexander Cunningham is best described as the:	History Discovering the Harappan civilisation	Easy
7	What was the main weakness of John Marshall's method of excavation?	History Discovering the Harappan civilisation	Medium
8	Why did Indian archaeologists explore many new sites in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana after 1947?	History Discovering the Harappan civilisation	Medium
9	An archaeologist finds a bead in a lower layer and a coin in a layer above it at the same undisturbed site. W…	History Discovering the Harappan civilisation	Hard
10	Evidence of a ploughed field with two sets of furrows at right angles was found at:	History Subsistence and settlement	Easy
11	The Great Bath of Mohenjodaro was located in the:	History Subsistence and settlement	Easy
12	Houses in the Lower Town of Mohenjodaro had no windows in the ground-floor walls facing the street. This most…	History Subsistence and settlement	Medium
13	Which piece of evidence best supports the view that Mohenjodaro was planned before it was built?	History Subsistence and settlement	Medium
14	A Harappan brick is 10 cm high. If it follows the standard Harappan ratio, what would be its length and bread…	History Subsistence and settlement	Hard
15	Which Harappan settlement was almost exclusively devoted to craft production?	History Social differences and crafts	Easy
16	Mesopotamian texts refer to contact with a region called Meluhha, which is possibly:	History Social differences and crafts	Easy
17	Archaeologists identify a site as a craft-production centre mainly by finding:	History Social differences and crafts	Medium
18	Small pots of faience are found mainly in Mohenjodaro and Harappa but rarely in smaller settlements. This sug…	History Social differences and crafts	Medium
19	A Harappan settlement near a distant source of lapis lazuli in Afghanistan was probably set up to obtain raw …	History Social differences and crafts	Hard
20	Most Harappan seals were made of:	History Seals, script and weights	Easy
21	The Harappan script was written in which direction?	History Seals, script and weights	Easy
22	Why do scholars think the Harappan script was not alphabetic?	History Seals, script and weights	Medium
23	A trader finds that the clay sealing on a bag of goods is intact when it reaches him. What does this tell him?	History Seals, script and weights	Medium
24	Lower Harappan weights followed a binary sequence. Which value would come immediately after 64 in this series?	History Seals, script and weights	Hard
25	The stone statue from Mohenjodaro called the "priest-king" was given this name because:	History Authority and the end of the civilisation	Easy
26	Which of the following is a feature of the Late Harappan phase?	History Authority and the end of the civilisation	Easy
27	What supports the view that some authority made decisions in Harappan society?	History Authority and the end of the civilisation	Medium
28	Which of these was NOT among the suggested causes for the decline of Harappan cities?	History Authority and the end of the civilisation	Medium
29	A historian argues that the disappearance of seals, script and standard weights after about 1900 BCE points t…	History Authority and the end of the civilisation	Hard
30	Who deciphered the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts in the 1830s?	History Decipherment of scripts	Easy
31	Most Ashokan inscriptions were written in which script?	History Decipherment of scripts	Easy
32	Which evidence helped scholars decipher Kharosthi?	History Decipherment of scripts	Medium
33	Most Ashokan inscriptions refer to the king by which title?	History Decipherment of scripts	Medium
34	Scholars reading Brahmi first compared it with later scripts such as Bengali and Devanagari. Why was this a u…	History Decipherment of scripts	Hard
35	Which was the earlier capital of Magadha before Pataliputra?	History Mahajanapadas and the rise of Magadha	Easy
36	States known as ganas or sanghas were mainly:	History Mahajanapadas and the rise of Magadha	Easy
37	Which factor did NOT contribute to the rise of Magadha as described by historians?	History Mahajanapadas and the rise of Magadha	Medium
38	Who composed the Dharmasutras that laid down norms for rulers?	History Mahajanapadas and the rise of Magadha	Medium
39	A historian notes that Magadha could move troops and goods easily and cheaply. Which geographical feature bes…	History Mahajanapadas and the rise of Magadha	Hard
40	Megasthenes, whose account is a source for the Mauryan period, was:	History The Mauryan empire	Easy
41	Which of the following was NOT a provincial centre of the Mauryan empire?	History The Mauryan empire	Easy
42	Officers known as dhamma mahamatta were appointed by Ashoka to:	History The Mauryan empire	Medium
43	An Ashokan inscription asks people to treat slaves and servants well and respect other sects. This reflects:	History The Mauryan empire	Medium
44	According to Megasthenes, the committee for military affairs had six subcommittees. Which of these was one of…	History The Mauryan empire	Hard
45	The Kushana rulers adopted which title meaning "son of god"?	History New notions of kingship	Easy
46	The Prayaga Prashasti was composed by Harishena in praise of:	History New notions of kingship	Easy
47	Colossal statues of Kushana rulers found at Mat near Mathura most likely show that the rulers:	History New notions of kingship	Medium
48	Who were samantas in the Gupta period?	History New notions of kingship	Medium
49	A student uses a prashasti as the only evidence that a king was loved by all his subjects. What is the main p…	History New notions of kingship	Hard
50	Which group issued the first gold coins in the subcontinent, around the first century CE?	History Agrarian change, towns and trade	Easy