Indian Culture Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams | Indian Culture Solved MCQs Set 6

(1) Who among the following was not an eminent orientalist ?

(2) “Communal harmony could not be permanently established in our country, so long as highly distorted versions of history were taught in her schools and colleges, through the history textbooks”. Who said this ?

(3) Chronologically arrange the following social legislations and select the correct answer from the code given below :

(a) The age of Consent Act X

(b) The Hindu Widow Remarriage Act XV

(c) The Act XXXI which opened inheritance of Christian converts

(d) The Brahmo Civil Marriage Act.

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(4) Which famous Bengali poet served in the British Indian Army in the Mesopotamian Campaign during the First World War ?

(5) Which noted social reformer founded the S.N.D.T. Women’s University in 1916 ?

(6) Who wrote the history of Indian theatre in four volumes entitled : The Indian Stage, during 1934-1944 ?

(7) Which was the first talkie film in India ?

(8) “Rabindranath Tagore has been the first and the greatest leader of our intellectual and moral revolt against the soul-killing domination of European thought and ideals...” Who said these words ? )

(9) Which one of the following Gandhian ideas is not correct ?

(10) Who designed Allahabad University building (1887) in Indo-Islamic style ?

(11) Given below are two statements one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : The historian should devote patiently to the unending pursuit of objective fact.

Reason (R) : In the classification and interpretation of historical fact, the element of bias should be neglected.

In the light of the above two statements which of the following is correct ?

(12) Which Indian historian wrote : “The belief in a close relation between colonialism or British rule and modernity in India’s historical experience remains central to Indian perception of our past at virtually all levels and across a wide range of ideologies.”

(13) To which school of Historical research Fernand Braudel belong to ?

(14) Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R) and select the correct answer from the code given below :

Assertion (A) : A unique feature of the house construction of the Harappans was that the roadward side of a block presented a plain blank facade.

Reason (R) : The entrances to the houses were from the narrow lanes which were set at right angles to the main streets.

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(15) Which of the following later Upanishads deal with the concept of Trimurti ?