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General Knowledge

History

Easy

Which of the following were among the five major political centers in the Mauryan empire?

(A) Pataliputra

(B) Kandahar

(C) Ujjayini

(D) Suvarnagiri

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (B) and (D) only

(B), (C) and (D) only

(A), (B) and (C) only

(A), (C) and (D) only

✅ Correct Option: 4

The five Mauryan political centres were the capital Pataliputra and the provincial centres Taxila, Ujjayini, Tosali and Suvarnagiri. Kandahar is known for an Ashokan bilingual inscription but was not one of the five listed centres, so (A), (C) and (D) is correct.

2025: 22 May Shift 1

Arrange the following landmarks in history in chronological order, beginning with the earliest to the most recent:

(A) Reign of Jahangir

(B) The diwani of Bengal transferred to the East India Company

(C) Reign of Akbar

(D) Humayun regained lost territories

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2025: 22 May Shift 1

Arrange the following historical events in chronological order, beginning with the earliest to the most recent.

(A) Beginning of Gupta rule

(B) Rise of the Pallavas in Tamil Nadu

(C) The Arabs conquered Sind

(D) End of the Mauryan empire

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2025: 30 May Shift 2

Arrange the following landmarks in history in chronological order, beginning with the earliest to the most recent.

(A) Nadir Shah invades India and sacks Delhi

(B) Ahmad Shah Abdali defeats the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat

(C) Reign of Akbar

(D) Reign of Shah Jahan

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2026: 18 May Shift 1

Match List-I with List-II

List-I (Important Historical Events)	List-II (Year)
(A) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre	(I) 1917
(B) Peasant movement in Bardoli	(II) 1931
(C) Champaran movement	(III) 1919
(D) Gandhi-Irwin Pact	(IV) 1928

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2023: 15 June Shift 2

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I	List - II
(1) First speaker of Lok Sabha	(I) Dr. Amartya Sen
(2) First Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award	(II) G.V. Mavalankar
(3) First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics	(III) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
(4) First Indian Nobel Laureate	(IV) Rabindra Nath Tagore

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2025: 26 May Shift 1

Match List-I with List-II

List-I	List-II
Viceroys of India	Period
(A) Lord Curzon	(I) 1869-1872
(B) Lord Irwin	(II) 1898-1904
(C) Lord Canning	(III) 1926-1931
(D) Lord Mayo	(IV) 1858-1862

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