421. With whose permission did the English set up their first factory in Surat?
1. Akbar
2. Jahangir
3. Shahjahan
4. Aurangzeb
Option “2” is correct. The new monarch James-I sent William Hawkins to the Court of Jahangir as official diplomatic representative of King to India. English set up their first factory in Surat during Jahangir.
422. Who among the following are known as King Makers in Indian History?
1. Sayyid Brothers
2. Hussain Brothers
3. Hassan Family
4. Tardi Begh
Option “1” is correct. The two Sayyid brothers were Abdulla Khan and Hussain Ali Khan are called King Maker of Indian history.
423. Which freedom fighter was popularly known as ‘Deshbandhu’?
1. Lala Lajpat Rai
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3. Chittaranjan Das
4. C. F.Andrews
Option “3” is correct. Chittaranjan Das, popularly called Deshbandhu, was a leading Indian politician, a prominent lawyer, an activist of the Indian National Movement and founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in Bengal during British occupation in India
424. Who among the following were members of the Swaraj party?
Option “1” is correct. In December 1922, Chittaranjan Das, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar and Motilal Nehru formed the Congress-Khilafat Swarajaya Party with Das as the president and Nehru as one of the secretaries.
425. Who was the last British Viceroy of India?
1. Lord Lintithgow
2. Lord Wavell
3. Clement Atlee
4. Lord Mountbatten
Option “4” is correct. Lord Mountbatten was the Last Viceroy of British India and the first Governor General of free India.
426. Against whom Skandagupta had to wage long wars on the North West border?
1. Shakas
2. Yavanas
3. Huns
4. Greeks
Option “3” is correct. The nomadic savages or tribes who lived in the neighbourhood of China were the Hephthalites (the Sanskrit name of which is Hunas). Gupta Empire ruled over a major part of India, after the death of the Gupta emperor, Samudragupta, there was less control of the skandgupta in Western India. During this time, the Hunas armed forces attacked the Gupta dynasty.
427. The foreign traveler who visited India during the rule of the Guptas was?
1. Hiuen Tsang
2. Beriner
3. Fa-Hein
4. Manucci
Option “3” is correct. Fa-Hien is the famous Chinese pilgrim who visited India during the rule of Chandra Gupta II. Fa Hien was so much absorbed in his quest for Buddhist books, legends, and miracles that he could not mention the name of the mighty monarch in whose rule he lived for 6 years.
428. Ashtapradhan was a council of ministers-
1. In the Gupta administration
2. In the Chola administration
3. In the Vijayanagar
4. In the Maratha administration
Option “4” is correct. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaja was the undisputed head of the administration and he stood for the welfare of his subjects. The state council has Eight Ministers called Asthapradhans.
429. Who among the following was the first Bhakti saint to use Hindi for the propagation of his message?
1. Dadu
2. Kabir
3. Ramananda
4. Tulsidas
Option “3” is correct. Ramananda was a 14th-century Vaishnava devotional poet saint, in the Ganga river region of Northern India. The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times.
Option “2” is correct. The East India Association was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866, in collaboration with Indians and retired British officials in London. It superseded the London Indian Society and was a platform for discussing matters and ideas about India, and to provide representation for Indians to the Government.
