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(1) Which one is not the twelve edicts of emperor Jahangir ?
(1) Whatever on the routes there occur cases of theft and robbery, and the place is at some distance from inhabited sites, let the jÂgirdars of the area layout a serai and mosque and dig a well, so that people settle there; if the spot is near khalisa territory, let its officers do the same.
(2) 18 Rabi I, which is my birthday, for a period of days equal to the years of my life, no animals should be slaughtered; and a prohibition of animal slaughter was likewise made for two days in every week.
(3) Prophet’s law (Shari’at-i Nabawi) which had withered like a red flower by the winter wind should be renewed.
(4) A government collector or a jagirdÂr should not without permission inter-marry with the people of the pargana in which he might be.
Answer: Prophet’s law (Shari’at-i Nabawi) which had withered like a red flower by the winter wind should be renewed.
(2) Printing in Tamil began under missionary auspices. Which was the first work printed in 1677 ?
(1) Paramartha-Guru-Kathai
(2) Vaman Kathai
(3) Kiristhava Vedopadesam
(4) Virama-Muni
Answer: Kiristhava Vedopadesam

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(3) Which one of the following is not the biography of the nobles ?
(1) Zakhirat - ul Khawanin
(2) Tazkirat-ul Umara
(3) Mirat-i Ahmadi
(4) Maasir-ul Umara
Answer: Mirat-i Ahmadi
(4) Who among the following wrote a letter to a friend to let Balkrishan copy, from a book in the latter’s possession, the poem (qasida), Bahr-i Abrar : “If the friend would not trust him with the book, Balkrishan will sit in your mosque for one or two days and transcribe it there.” ?
(1) Abdul Haq
(2) Shaikh Jalal Hisari
(3) Muhammad Ghaus Shattari
(4) Shaikh Munawwar
Answer: Shaikh Jalal Hisari
(5) Who said, “Before Asia is in a position to co-operate with the cultures of Europe, she must base her own structure on a synthesis of all the different cultures which she has.” ?
(1) Keshub Chandra Sen
(2) Swami Vivekanand
(3) Rabindranath Tagore
(4) Mrs. Annie Besant
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
(6) The writings of which of the following persons have not enriched Bengali Drama ?
(1) Dinabandu Mitra
(2) Girish Chandra Ghosh
(3) Rasik Krishna Malik
(4) Madusudhan Dutt
Answer: Rasik Krishna Malik
(7) Select the incorrect pair from the following :
(1) Punjab University - 1882
(2) Allahabad University - 1887
(3) Osmania University - 1897
(4) Jamia Milia Islamia University - 1920
Answer: Osmania University - 1897
(8) Who said, “There are higher powers that rule the destiny of things and it may be the will of providence that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free”.
(1) Lala Lajpat Rai
(2) Lokmanya B.G. Tilak
(3) Mahatma Gandhi
(4) Bhagat Singh
Answer: Lokmanya B.G. Tilak
(9) To which region of India, belong the forms of folk performances - Khel, Lavani, Gondhal and Tamasha ?
(1) Bengal
(2) Tamil Nadu
(3) Andhra Pradesh
(4) Maharashtra
Answer: Maharashtra
(10) Where did Pandit V.D. Paluskar establish the first Gandharva Mahavidyalaya ?
(1) Pune
(2) Baroda
(3) Karachi
(4) Lahore
Answer: Lahore
(11) Whose ‘Garden City’ concept inspired Edwin L. Lutyen while planning New Delhi’s architecture ?
(1) Ebenezer Howard
(2) William Emerson
(3) Charles Mant
(4) F.L. Wright
Answer: Ebenezer Howard
(12) To which musical genre did the musical trinity - Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri - made remarkable contribution in terms of both style and composition ?
(1) Western Music
(2) Ghazal Sangit
(3) Carnatik Music
(4) Rabindra Sangeet
Answer: Carnatik Music
(13) Who designed Allahabad University Building (1887) in Indo-Islamic style ?
(1) Charles Wyatt
(2) George Gilbert Scott
(3) Swinton Jacob
(4) Herbert Baker
Answer: Swinton Jacob
(14) Who among the following did not influence Mahatma Gandhi during his formative years ?
(1) Henry David Thoreau
(2) John Ruskin
(3) Leo Tolstoy
(4) John Stuart Mill
Answer: John Stuart Mill
(15) When were the bow and arrow added in the equipment of hunters for the first time ?
(1) Lower Palaeolithic period
(2) Neolithic period
(3) Mesolithic period
(4) Chalcolithic period
Answer: Mesolithic period

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