Code No.

L – 4007

Entrance Examination for Admission to the P.G. Courses in the Teaching

Departments, 2021
CSS
HISTORY

General Instructions

1. The Question Paper is having two Parts — Part ‘A’ Objective type (60%) & Part ‘B’
Descriptive type (40%).
2. Objective type questions which carry 1 mark each are to be (✓) ‘tick marked’ in the
response sheets against the appropriate answers provided.
3. 8 questions are to be answered out of 12 questions carrying 5 marks each in Part ‘B’.
4. Negative marking : 0.25 marks will be deducted for each wrong answer
in Part ‘A’.
Time : 2 Hours Max. Marks : 100

To be filled in by the Candidate

Register in Figures
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PART – A
(Objective Type)

Choose appropriate answer from the options in the questions. One mark each.
(60 × 1 = 60 marks)

1. The word ‘Istoria’ meaning inquiry is derived from

a) Greek b) French
c) Latin d) German
2. Who said that ‘all history is contemporary history’?
a) E.H Carr b) Beneditto Croce
c) Thomas Carlyle d) J.B. Bury

3. Who is known as the father of Scientific History?

a) Herodotus b) Thucydides
c) Polybius d) Dionysisus

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4. The book ‘Rethinking History’ by Keith Jenkins is a critique of
a) E.H. Carr b) R.G Collingwood
c) Arthur Marwick d) Marc Bloch

5. Which among the following is the Land between Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
a) Egypt b) Mesopotamia
c) Babylonia d) China

6. Who built the Great Wall of China?

a) Mao Tse Tung b) Tuan Chi Tui
c) Shi Huang Ti d) Sheng He

7. What do you find the remains of a furrowed field?

a) Harappa b) Mohenjodara
c) Kalibangan d) Lothal

8. Who is known as the father of Marine Archaeology?

a) A. Ghosh b) S.R. Rao
c) John Marshall d) Mortimer Wheeler

9. Which among the following Vedas is a source of music?

a) Yajur Veda b) Samaveda
c) Atharva Veda d) Rig Veda

10. The Battle of Ten Kings or Dasaranjanayudha mentioned in the Rigveda was
fought on the banks of
a) Ravi b) Sutlej
c) Beas d) Indus

11. The term for war in Rigveda is

a) Goghna b) Vis
c) Jana d) Gavishti

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12. Who authored Arthasastra?
a) Kalidasa b) Megasthenese
c) Kautilya d) Vishnusharma

13. Alexander’s invasion of India took place in which year?

a) 321 B.C b) 321 A.D
c) 326 B.C d) 326 A.D

14. What is the content of The Sanskrit drama ‘Mudrarakshasa’?

a) Alexander’s invasion of India
b) Advent of the Aryans
c) Chandragupta Maurya overthrowing Dhanananda
d) Birth Stories of Buddha

15. St. Thomas visited India in the First Century A.D during the rule of
a) Milinda b) Kadphises
c) Gondophernes d) Brihadratha

16. Who were the first to start the practice of land grants?
a) The Guptas b) The Mauryas
c) The Satavahanas d) The Vijayanagara

17. The Pillar Inscription at Mehrauli depicts the conquests of

a) Chandraguta I b) Chandraguta II
c) Samudragupta d) Skandagupta

18. Who deciphered the Brahmi Script?

a) James Princep b) Willaim Jones
c) Henry Beveridge d) Alexander Cunningham

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19. Which among the following was an ancient port city located on the South West
coast of India?
a) Poompuhar b) Korkai
c) Muziris d) Padouke

20. The greatest work of Tamil Grammar during the Sangam Age?
a) Tolkappiyam b) Paripatal
c) Nattrinai d) Kurumtokai

21. The Kollam Era was started in

a) 875 A.D b) 825 A.D
c) 895 A.D d) 865 A.D

22. Which among the following books of RomilaThapar discusses about Mohammed
Ghazni’s invasion of India?
a) From Lineage to State
b) Early India
c) Somanatha: Many Voices of History
d) Interpreting Early India

23. The famous Uttirameroor Inscription belongs to the reign of

a) Rajendra I b) Raja Raja II
c) Parantaka I d) Parantaka II

24. The first man to find Harappa bricks in 1826

a) Charles Mason b) R.D Banerjee
c) John Marshall d) Dayaram Sahni

25. During medieval period in India Kharaj was

a) Share of War booty b) Land Tax
c) Grazing Tax d) Religious Tax

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26. Who wrote the book Tabakat-l-Naziri?
a) Ferishta b) Amir Khusru
c) Alberuni d) Minhaj us Siraj

27. The Battle of Talikotta was fought in the year

a) 1565 A.D b) 1545 A.D
c) 1535 A.D d) 1656 A.D

28. During the period of Sultanate rule in India Diwan-I-Kohi was the department of
a) Religious Affairs b) Military department
c) Agriculture d) Slaves

29. Who was the Bhakti saint from Bengal?

a) Ramanuja b) Tukaram
c) Vallabha d) Chaithanya

30. Who founded the Agra city?

a) Bahlul Lodi b) Sikander Lodi
c) Ibrahim Lodi d) Mohammed Lodi

31. During the Vijayanagara period the revenue department was known as
a) Khandachara b) Asthavana
c) Ashtapradhan d) Amaram

32. Who gave the segmentary State model for the study of South Indian Society?
a) Noboro Karashima b) Burton Stein
c) Y.Subbarayalu d) K.A Nilakanta Sastri

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33. The recently excavated archaeological site Keeladi is located in
a) Kanchipuram b) Salem
c) Madurai d) Coimbatore

34. Who is the author of the book People, Taxation and Trade in Mughal India?
a) Irfan Habib b) Seema Alavi
c) Shireen Moosvi d) Jadunath Sarkar

35. Who is associated with the launching of Subaltern Studies in India?

a) R.S.Sharma b) Ranajith Guha
c) Romila Thapar d) D.D. Kosambi

36. Masulipattinam where the British established their first factory in South India was
a port in the kingdom of
a) Mysore b) Golconda
c) Vijayanagara d) Bijapur

37. Who coined the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’?

a) Bhagat Singh b) Subhash Chandra Bose
c) Arabindo Ghosh d) Mohammed Iqbal

38. Who is called the mother of Indian Revolution?

a) Annie Besant b) Beena Das
c) Madam Bhikaji Kama d) Sarojini Naidu

39. Which was the first news paper in India?

a) Bengal Gazette b) New India
c) Al Hilal d) Yugantar

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40. The Vellore Mutiny took place in the year
a) 1805 b) 1806
c) 1807 d) 1809

41. What is called the Magna Carta of Indian education?

a) Macaulay’s Minutes b) Charter Act of 1813
c) The Woods Despatch of 1854 d) The Regulating Act of 1773

42. Who is the author of the book ‘‘Social Background of Indian Nationalism’’?
a) A.R. Desai b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
c) M.N. Roy d) R.C. Dutt

43. Who made the statement “The bones of cotton weavers are bleaching the plains
of India”?
a) Lord Macaulay b) Lord Curzon
c) Lord William Bentick d) Lord Mountbatten

44. Who defeated Hyder All in the Battle of Porto Novo?

a) Sir Robert Clive b) Warren Hastings
c) Sir Eyre Coote d) Lord Wellesley

45. The Champaran Satyagraha took place in

a) 1914 b) 1915
c) 1916 d) 1917

46. During which agitation Gandhiji gave the slogan ‘Do or Die’?
a) Quit India Movement b) Non Coperation Movement
c) Civil Disobedience Movement d) Swadeshi Movement

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47. Who was the British Prime Minister at the eve of India’s Independence?
a) Clement Atlee b) Llyod George
c) Lord Grey d) Margaret Thatcher

48. Which is the book written by Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad?

a) Discovery of India b) India Wins Freedom
c) Freedom at Midnight d) The Philosophy of Poverty

49. Who among the following is known as the child of the French Revolution?
a) Bismarck b) Mussolini
c) Metternich d) Napolean

50. The Duma was the parliament of

a) Ireland b) Britain
c) Russia d) Hungary

51. During the second world war Germany launched its attack on the Royal Aircraft
of England and this is known as
a) Operation Polo b) Operation Bluestar
c) Operation Royalcraft d) Operation Sea Lion

52. The U.N.O was founded on

a) 24th October 1945 b) 26th October 1945
c) 24th November 1945 d) 26th November1945

53. Punnapra Vayalar uprising took place in the year

a) 1945 b) 1946
c) 1947 d) 1948

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54. The inscription shedding light on the Buddhist tradition in Kerala
a) Chokur Inscription b) Paliyam Copperplate
c) Avittathur Inscription d) Mampalli Copper plates

55. Who is known as the Maker of Modern Travancore?

a) Marthanda Varma b) Sakthan Thampuran
c) Velu Thampi d) Paliyath Achan

56. The Tiru Kochi state was formed on

a) 1st June 1947 b) 1st June 1949
c) 1st July 1949 d) 1st July 1947

57. The Green Revolution in India was launched in the

a) First Five Year Plan b) Second Five Year Plan
c) Third Five Year Plan d) Fourth Five Year Plan

58. The Kargil War took place in the year

a) 1998 b) 1999
c) 2000 d) 2001

59. Which among the following books is written by K.N Ganesh?

a) Social Formation in Early South India
b) The Early Medieval in South India
c) Reflection on Pre-Modern Kerala
d) Perumals of Kerala

60. In which district is Silent Valley situated?

a) Kasargode b) Palakkad
c) Malappuram d) Idukki

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 ANSWER SHEET — PART – A

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 HISTORY

PART – B
(Descriptive Type)

Answer any eight of the following. (8 × 5 = 40 Marks)

1. ‘No documents no history’’– Discuss.

2. Assess the contributions of Annales School of Historians to historiography.

3. Discuss the various theories regarding the decline of Indus Civilization.

4. Explain the features of the Mauryan administration system.

5. Debate on the Golden Age concept under the Guptas.

6. Examine the features of the temple oriented society in medieval Kerala.

7. Analyze the causes for the decline of the Mughal Empire.

8. Write a note on the Local Self Government under the Cholas.

9. Examine the nature of the Revolt of 1857.

10. Discuss the spread of Bhakti Movement in the Pan Indian Context.

11. Analyze the economic impact of the British rule in India.

12. Examine the role of UNO in the maintenance of World order.

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