COMBINED CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION-II c) Hector Munro - Battle of Buxar

(GROUP-II SERVICES) 01 . 12. 2013 d) Watson - Treaty of Sriranga Patnam

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a)   
1. N.M.R Subbaraman, the freedom fighter, was called b)   
as
c)   
a) Thennattu Thilakar b) Madurai Gandhi d)   
c) Muthamizh Kavalar d) King Maker 4. Match the following Match List I with List II and choose
____  the correct answer from the codes given below:
 List I List II
a)  A) Atmiya Sabha 1. M.G.Ranade
b)  B) Prarthana Sabha 2. RajaRam Mohan Roy
c)  C) Arya Samaj 3. Dayanand Saraswathi
d)  D) Deccan Education
Society 4. Atmaram Pandurang
2. Match the following Temple with place and choose
the correct answer from the codes given below   I    II   
    
List I List II

A) Monolithic Rathas 1. Tiruttani I II
B) Kailasanatha Temple 2. Gudimallam A)   M.G. 
C) Virattaneswara Temple 3. Kanchipuram B)   
D) Parasuramesvarar Temple 4. Mamallapuram C)   
     D)   
 A B C D A B C D

a) 2 4 3 1 b) 1 3 2 4
I II c) 4 3 2 1 d) 3 2 1 4
A)    5. The first Individual Satyagrahi was
B)    a) Gandhiji b) Vinoba Bhave
C)    c) Rajaji d) M.A. Jinnah
D)    
A B C D A B C D a)  b) 
a) 4 3 1 2 b) 3 4 1 2 c)  d) 
c) 1 3 2 4 d) 4 2 1 3 6. Which among the following Congress session was pre-
3. Which among the following is correctly matched? sided over Irish Member Alfred Web?
a) Ranjith Singh - Battle of Plassey a) First Session 1885
b) Tipu Sultan - Treaty of Amritsar b) Fourth Session 1888

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 c) Seventh Session 1891 c)   
d) Tenth Session 1894 d)   
 10. Match List I with List - II and select your answer using
 the codes given below:
a)  List I List II
b)   A) The Hindu Religious Endowment Act 1. 1922
c)  B) The Madras State Aid to Industrial Act 2. 1929
d)  C) The Public Serivce Commission 3. 1926
7. The first editor of the paper “Vande Matram” was D) Andhra University 4. 1921
a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee       

b) Shri Aurobindo Ghose

c) Rabindranath Tagore
I II
d) Dr. Annie Besant
A)  1. 1922
“”     _____
B)  2. 1929

C)  3. 1926
a) 
D)  4. 1921
b) 
A B C D A B C D
c) 
a) 4 2 1 3 b) 2 1 4 3
d) 
c) 3 4 1 2 d) 4 1 2 3
8. Match List I with List II correctly and select your an-
11. Which is wrongly matched?
swer using the codes given below
I. Gopala Nayak - Dindigul
List I List II
II. Raja of Pazhasi - Malabar
A) Dutch East India Company 1. 1600
III. Krishnappa nayak - Kannada
B) Britist East India Company 2. 1664
IV. Dhoondaji Waug - Tanjore
C) French East India Company 3. 1510

D) Portuguese Captured Goa 4. 1602
I.   

     II.   
 III.   
I II IV.   
A)    a) III b) I c) II d) IV
B)    12. ‘The Congress should get entry into the councils not
to cooperate with the Government but to non-coop-
C)   
erate with it’ This statement was made by whom?
D)   
a) Pandit Motilal Nehru and Desh Bandhu
A B C D A B C D Chittaranjan Das
a) 2 1 4 3 b) 4 1 2 3 b) M.K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
c) 3 4 2 1 d) 1 3 4 2 c) Lala Lajpat Rai and Gopala Krishna Gokale
9. Which among the following is not correctly matched? d) Subramanya Bharathi and V.O. Chidambaranar
a) First World Tamil Conference - Kuolalampur ‘
b) Second World Tamil Conference - Chennai    ’

c) Third World Tamil Conference - Madurai
a)      
d) Fourth World Tamil Conference - Srilanka

 b) 
a)    c) 
b)    d) 

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1. Consider the following two statements consisting of     
Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and select your answer 
using the codes given below: ”
Assertion (A):
a) 
Rise of militant movements in Indian National move-
b) 
ment revealed to the British Government, the extent
to which the Indians were humiliated and dissatisfied c) 
Reason (R): d) 
Indian youth were involved in large numbers in mili- 3. Which national leader uttered the following state-
tant movements and left their foot prints as Heros. ment?
a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct ex- “I am an Indian Tom Tom waking up all the sleepers so
planation to (A) that they wake and work for their motherland”.
b) Both (A) and (R) are false a) B.G.Thilak b) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
c) (A) and (R) are individually true but (R) is not the c) Annie Beasant d) Jawaharlal Nehru
correct explanation to (A) 
d) (A) is false and (R) is true “     
       
      ”
     a) 

b) 

c) 

d) 
    
     4. Consider the following pairs.
 I. Swami - parliament of Religious
  Vivekananda Chicago 1893
      II. M.S. Subbulakshmi - Patronized art and
 architecture
 III. Mother Teresa - Central Hindu School, Banaras
a)  IV. Raja Ravivarma - Classical paintings
 Which of the pair given above is/are correct?
b)  a) I only b) II only
c)  c) III only d) IV only
 
d)  I.   
2. Identify the leader who uttered the following state-  
ment:
II.  
“I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not
III.   
anti- any government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-
humbug and anti-injustice.......so long as the govern- IV.   
ment spells injustice, it may regard me as it enemy, 
implacable enemy.....”
a) I  b) II 
a) Gopala Krishna Gokhale c) III  d) IV 
b) Bala Gangadhara Tilak 5. Which is not the work of Ottakkuttar?
c) M.K. Gandhi
a) Senkuntarmalai b) Saraswathi Anthathi
d) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Yapparun Kalam d) Arumbai Tollayiram

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a)  b)  a) 2 1 4 3 b) 3 4 1 2
c)  d)  c) 2 4 1 3 d) 4 3 2 1
6. Who was the founder of the Kisan Mazdoor Praja 10. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer
Party? using the codes given below:
a) Achariya Menon b) J.B. Kriplani Menon List I List II
c) Achariya J.B. Kriplani d) Jai Prakash Narayanan A) Beek 1. Lahore Congress
 B) Archibold 2. Mohammedans
Defence Association
a) 
C) Rahmat Ali 3. Principal, Aligarh
b) J.B.
D) Pakistan Resolution 4. Coining the word
c) J.B.
Pakistan
d) 
I    II  
7. Who became the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency 
in 1923 after Justice party won the elections? 
a) Ramarayeningar  I II
b) K.V. Reddy
A)   
c) T.N.Sivagnanam Pillai
d) A.V. Patro B)   
 C)   
 D)   
a)  
b)  A B C D A B C D
c)  a) 2 3 4 1 b) 3 1 2 4
d) 
c) 1 4 3 2 d) 4 2 1 3
8. Who made the statement : ‘Worship of God through
11. Which of the following statements about Mangal
the services of the poor’?
Pandey are correct?
a) Mahatma Gandhi
I . He refused to use the greased catridge.
b) Mother Therasa
II . He was a Sepoy in the 19th native infantry sta-
c) Swami Vivekananda tioned at Berhampur.
d) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa III. He belonged to the regiment of 34 N.I at
“ Barrackpore.
 ” IV. He was not punished by the British
a)  b)  a) I and II b) II and IV
c)  d)  c) II and III d) I and III
9. Match List I with List II and select your answer using 
the codes given below in the lists. 
List I List II I . 
A) Lala Lajpat Rai 1. The Philosophy of the Bomb II . 
B) Bhagat Singh 2. Chittagong Armoury Raid 
C) Surya Sen 3. Assassination of Saunders III . 34 N.I 
D) Bhagwaticharan IV. 
Vohra 4. Extremist Nationalist a) I II b) II  IV
 I   II   c) II  III d) I III

12. Surdas was the disciple of
I II
a) Madhavacharya b) vallabacharya
A)   
B)    c) Namadev d) Eknath
 
C)    a)  b) 
D)    c)  d) 
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13. The Chief offensive Weapon of the Vedic period 2. Consider the following two statements consisting of
a) Sword b) Axes Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and select your answer
c) Spear d) Bow and Arrow using the codes given below:
 Assertion(A): One of the duties of High Commissioner
of India at London was to look after the Education of
a)  b) 
the Indian students in England.
c)  d) 
Reason (R): Indian Councils Act of 1919 provided for
14. Which of the following is not correctly Matched? the appointment of a High Commissioner of India at
Dances States London.
a) Bhangra - Punjab a) (A) is correct, (R) is false
b) Kuchipudi - Andhra Pradesh b) Both (A) and (R) are false
c) Yakshagana - Gujarat c) (A) is false, (R) is correct
d) Odissi - Odisha d) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the right
 explanation to (A)
  
a)         
b)       
c)     
d)    

15. UN flag is designed with the leaves of which of the
following tree? 
a) Olive b) Willo c) Apple d) Pine      




a) 
a)  b)  c)  d) 
b) 
POSTS INCLUDED IN THE COMBINED c) 
ENGINEERING SERVICES EXAMINATION d)      
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3. Who among the following recognised the cinema as
1. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer the main vehicle of propaganda in the 1930s?
using the codes given below the lists.
a) E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
List I List II
b) C.N. Annadurai
A) Back to Vedas 1. Abdul Gaffar Khan
c) Maraimalai Adigal
B) Patriot Saint of India 2. D.K. Karve
C) Frontier Gandhi 3. Swami Vivekananda d) S.Sathya Murthi
D) Hindu Widow’s 4. Swami Dayanand  
Home Saraswati 
 I II a) 
      b) 
 c) 
I  II d) 
A)   
4. Which ancient univesity accommodated about 10,000
B)    students and 1,500 teachers?
c)    a) Kasi b) Nalanda

c) Takshesila d) Ujjain
d)   
   
A B C D A B C D 
a) 2 3 4 1 b) 4 2 3 1 a)  b) 
c) 3 1 2 4 d) 4 3 1 2 c)  d) 
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5. Which of the following statements about the History 
of Tamil Cinema is /are NOT TRUE? 
I. The first permanent theatre ‘Variety Hall was con- a) 
structed at coimbatore. b) 
II. The first Tamil Talkie is Valli Thirumanam c) 
III. American director Ellis Duncan was invited to make d) 
Tamil films during 1936. 8. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer
IV. The film Jayakodi portrays the evils of dowry sys- using the codes given below the lists.
tem. List I List II
a) I and IV b) II and III A) Sambadh Kaumud 1. Surendra Nath Banerjee
c) II only d) III only B) Sarvajanik Sabha 2. Bala Gangadhar Tilak
 C) The Bengalee 3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
 D) The Kesri 4. Gopala Krishna Gokhale
I.    ‘’  I  II  
 
II.  
III.   I  II
 A)   
IV.  B)   
 C)   
a) I IV b) II  III D)   
c) II  d) III  A B C D A B C D
6. Who wrote ‘Dasigal Mosa Valai’? a) 4 1 3 2 b) 1 3 4 2
a) D.K. Pattammal c) 3 4 2 1 d) 3 4 1 2
9. What are the two great epics that help to know the
b) Moovalur Ramamirthammal
Sangam Age?
c) Neelambigai
a) Silappadikaram and Mani-mekalai
d) M.S.Subbulakshmi b) Ramayana and Mahabha-ratha
 c) Illiad and Oddessey
a)  d) Psalms and Proverbs
b)       
c)   
d)  a) 
7. Choose the correct answer from the codes given be- b) 
low: c) 
Assertion : The state Department of Archaeology d) 
and Oceanography Department of Goa conducted un- 10. Consider the following two statements consisting of
derwater excavation at Puhar. Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and select your answer
Reason: To discover the submerged port city of using codes given below:
Sangam Cholas. Assertion (A):
a) Assertion is Correct, Reason is wrong In 1906 at the Congress session in Calcutta, Dadabhai
b) Assertion is wrong, Reason is correct Naoroji proclaimed swadeshi and Swaraj.
Reason (R):
c) Both Assertion and Reason are correct
In the same year V.O. Chidambaram Pillai founded his
d) Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect
Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company.
    a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains(A)

b) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the expla-
        nation of (A)

 c) Both (A) and (R) are false
d) (A) is true, (R) is false
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        III 
       
 
 I II
 A)   
 B)   
 C)   
a)  D)   
 A B C D A B C D
b)       a) 1 2 4 3 b) 4 3 2 1
 c) 4 2 1 3 d) 3 2 1 4
c)  14. Who is called as Nightingale of Carnatic Music?
d)  a) Sarojini Naidu b) Subbulakshmi
11. Who of the following decided to use the term ‘Home- c) Vijayalakshmi Pandit d) Rukmani Arundale
rule’ in the place of ‘Swaraj’ as the goal of the Home

Rule Movement?
a)  b) 
a) Dadabhai Naoroji
c)  d) 
b) Surendranath Banerjee
15. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer
c) Bala Gangadara Tilak using the codes given below the lists.
d) Annie Besant List I List II
     A) Regulating Act 1. 1773
    
B) Pitts India Act 2. 1784

C) The Government of India Act 3. 1858
a) 
D) The Indian Council Act 4. 1909
b) 
III
c)     
d)  
12. What is the major difference between Varna and Jati?  I  II
a) Varna and Jati are the same A)   
b) Both are unrelated B)   
c) Varna are only four but Jati are many C)   
d) Jati is derived from varna D)   
 A B C D A B C D
a)  a) 1 2 3 4 b) 3 1 2 4
b)  c) 4 3 2 1 d) 2 4 1 3
c)       16. The first UN Malala Award was given to
 a) Roquia Sakhawat Hussian
d)  b) Sadia Dehlvi
13. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer c) Dara skitoh
using the codes given below the lists. d) Razia Sultan
List I ListII UN 
A) Madras Music Academy 1. 1943 a) 
B) Madras Music Conference 2. 1929 b) 
C) Tamil Isai Movement 3. 1928 c) 
D) Tamil Isai Sangam 4. 1927 d) 

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 5. Two achievements of the Justice Party
CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OFFICER IN THE I. The domination of Brahmins
TAMIL NADU GENERAL SERVICE (2012-2013)
II. Mid-day meal scheme
(15-02-2015)
III. Free pattas for housing sites to the poor
1. By which of the following incidents, Motilal Nehru, IV. Caste and wealth played vital role
initially a Moderate, took to extremist Nationalism? 
a) Partition of Bengal I. 
b) Surat Split II. 
c) Internment of Annie Besant III. 
d) Chauri - Chaura Incident IV. 
 a) I, IV b) II, III c) I, II d) III, IV
 6. Find the odd man out
a)  a) Mahavir Charita b) Uttara Rama Charita
b)  c) Buddha Charita d) Malati madhava
c)  
d)  a)  b) 
2. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer c)  d) 
using the codes given below the lists. 7. Name the first Tamil scholar who received the
List I List II ‘Padmashree’ award
A) Poona Pact 1. 1946 a) T.P.Meenakshi Sundaram
B) Official demand for Pakistan 2. 1945 b) R.P.Sethupillai
C) Simla conference 3. 1932 c) M.Varadharajan
D) Cabinet Mission 4. 1940 d) Ovvai D. Natarajan
III ‘’
    a) 
 b) 
 I  II c) 
d) 
A)  1. 1946
8. UN Headquarters is located at _______
B)  2. 1945
a) Newyork, USA b) Washington, USA
C)  3. 1932
c) Paris, France d) London, UK
D)  4. 1940
UN ________
A B C D A B C D
a)  USA b) USA
a) 3 4 1 2 b) 3 1 2 4 c)  d) UK
c) 3 4 2 1 d) 3 2 4 1 9. Which South Indian King helped Pulithevan, the first
3. Find the odd man out freedom fighter of Tamil country, by sending 4000 sol-
a) Meghadutta b) Raghuvamsa diers to fight against Maba’khan?
c) Mudrarakshasa d) Ritusamhara a) Travancore: Marthandavarman
 b) Madurai : Poligars
a)  b)  c) Pudukkottai : Tondaimans
c)  d)  d) Sivagiri : Poligars
4. Which is called as Encyclopaedia of Buddhism?      
     
a) Madhyamika Sutra b) Sutraalankar __________
c) Mahavibasha Sastra d) Buddha Charita a) 
 b) 
a)  b)  c) 
c)  d)  d) 
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10. The chronological order of the following national lead- 14. Among the Sangam literature, find the odd man out
ers of India is a) Nattrinai b) Kalithogai
I. Lala Lajput Rai c) Naladiyar d) Kurunthogai
II. Rajendra Prasad     
III. Dadabhai Naoroji 
a)  b) 
IV. Surendranath Banerjee
c)  d) 
    
15. In India Slavery was abolished during the governor

generalship of
I.  II.  a) William Willberforce Brid
III.  IV.  b) Lord Auckland
a) III, IV, I, II b) IV, II, I, III c) Ellenborough
c) III, I, IV, II d) I, II, III, IV d) Lord Hardings
11. Which of the following is/are incorrect about the 
Swatantra party? 
I. It stood for free and private enterprise a) 
b) 
II. It stood for the active role of the state in eco- c) 
nomic development d) 
III. It opposed centralized planning 16. In India, Slavery was abolished by law in the year
IV. It stood for nationalisation of private enterprise     
 
 a) 1841 b) 1842 c) 1843 d) 1845
I.  17. Match List I with List II and select your answer using
the codes given below
II. 
 A) WTO 1. National Leprosy Eradication
Programme
III. 
B) FAO 2. United Nations Human Rights Council
IV.      C) UNHRC 3. Food and Agricultural Organisation

D) NLEP 4. World Trade Organisation
a) I, III, IV b) I and IV I II
c) II and IV d) III and IV 
12. Which National leader was appointed as Dewan by A) WTO  
Gaekwad of Baroda in 1870? B) FAO  
a) Surendra Nath Banerjee C) UNHRC  
b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale D) NLEP  
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak A B C D A B C D
d) Dadabhai Naoroji a) 3 2 1 4 b) 4 3 2 1
c) 1 3 2 4 d) 4 1 3 2
     
 18. Which of the following pair is not correctly matched?
A B
a) 
a) TRAI - June 2008
b) 
b) NTP-99 - July 2001
c)  c) PMRTS - November 2001
d)  d) GMPCS - November 2002
13. Who is called as Indian Einstein? 
a) Varahamihra b) Nagarjuna A B
c) Aryabhatta d) Brahmagupta a) TRAI  
 b) NTP-99  
c) PMRTS  
a)  b) 
d) GMPCS  
c)  d) 
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
1. Which was the port of Indus Valley Civilization? a) 
a) Lothal b) Harappa b) 
c) Mohanjadaro d) Surkota c) 
 d) 
a)  b)  7. The founder of the Satya Sodhak Samaj was
c)  d)  a) Atmaram Pandurang
2. Who was the founder of the Tuluva Dynasty? b) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
a) Veera Narasimha b) Saluva Narasimha c) M.G.Ranade
c) Krishnadevaraya d) Achyuta Raya d) Jyothibai Phule
 
a)  b)  a) 
c)  d)  b) 
3. The English journal ‘Revolt’ was founded by c) M.G.
a) E.V.Ramasamy b) Ramalinga Vallalar d) 
c) Annie Besant d) Dr.T.M.Nair 8. The U.K’s first woman Bishop
‘’ a) Reverend Rolene Strauss
a)  b)  b) Reverend Ruby Diana
c)  d)  c) Reverend Daisy
4. Who was the first English President of the Indian Na- d) Reverend Libby Lane
tional Congress? 
a) Alfred Web a) 
b) George Yule b) 
c) Sir Henry Cotton c) 
d) Sir William Wedderburn d) 
 9. While discovering the past history of India, the Brahmi
a)   Script was deciphered largely by
b)  a) James Tod
c)  b) James Prinsep
d)  c) Alexander Cunningham
5. Who founded the Mohammedan Anglo oriental col- d) Sri William Jones
lege?     
a) Jinnah 
b) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan a) 
c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad b) 
d) Maulana Hussain Ahmed c) 
 d) 
 10. Who was the eminent Christ saint banished by Jehangir
a)  for blessing his rebellions son Khusrao?
b)  a) Shaik Salim
b) Shaik Nizamuddin Faruqi Thaneswari
c) 
c) Shaik Khwaja Muinuddin
d) 
d) Shaik Nizamuddin Auluya
6. Do or Die slogan was associated with whom?

a) Nethaji Subhas Chandra Bose
    
b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
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 a)  15. Which among the following is chronologically latest?
b)  a) Bardoli Satyagraha
c)  b) Champaran Satyagraha
d)  c) Ahmedabad Mill workers Satyagraha
11. .............. is known as the Magnacarta of Indian edu- d) Kheda Satyagraha
cation. 
a) Macaulay’s Minute b) Woods Despatch a) 
c) Hunters Report d) Kotharis Report b) 
 c) 
a)  b)  d) 
c)  d) 
12. Potti Sriramulu is known for ............. ASSISTANT AGRICULTURAL OFFICER IN
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a) founding of Annamalai university
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b) creation of Andhra Pradesh
c) Prohibition in Madras 1. The year in which St. George Fort was built?
d) Founding Venkateswara University 
 a) 1639 b) 1640 c) 1641 d) 1642
a)  2. Which of the following statements is/are correct?
b)  (i) The holy places don’t bring the unity among the
c)  Indians
d)  (ii) The Heritage of India binds Indians together
13. Who was the ruler of the Princely State of Kashmir in (iii) All religious people believe that Godhood couldn’t
1947? be attained by devotion and tolerance
a) Ram Singh b) Shah Nawaz Bhutto (iv) Music and dance play on important part in foster-
c) Hari Singh d) Riza Khan ing unity and Integration
1947 a) (i) and (iii) are correct
 b) (i), (ii) and (iv) are wrong
a)  b)  c) (ii) and (iii) are correct
c)  d)  d) (ii) and (iv) are correct
14. Match List I with List II of the following and choose 
the correct code given below: i)    
List I List II 
A) Ahmadya movement 1. Dayananda ii) 
Saraswathi iii)     
B) Prarthana Samaj 2. Satyanand Agnihotri    

C) Deva Samaj 3. Atma Ram Pandurang
iv)    
D) Arya Samaj 4. Mirza Ghulam Ahmed 
 a) (i) (iii) 

b) (i), (ii) (iv) 
I II
c) (ii)  (iii) 
A)  1. 
d) (ii)  (iv) 
B)  2.  3. Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy started an orphanage known as
C)  3.  a) Saraswathi illam b) Avvai illam
D)  4.  c) Anbu illam d) Lakshmi illam
A B C D A B C D 
a) 4 2 1 3 b) 3 2 4 1 a)  b) 
c) 4 3 2 1 d) 2 4 1 3 c)  d) 
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4. The headquarters of UNO is located in    
a) Washington b) New Delhi 
c) New york d) Sanfrancisco a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
a)  b)  9. Arrange the following invasions in Chronological or-
der:
c)  d) 
I. Nadhirsha II. Ahamedshah Abdali
5. Which one of the following is correct regarding Non-
Aligned Movement? III. Chengizkhan IV. Thaimur
a) First summit was held in 1964 
b) First meeting was attended by 30 member coun- I.  II. 
tries III.  IV. 
c) 15th summit was held in 2009 a) IV, III, I, II b) II, I, III, IV
d) 17th summit is to be held in Egypt c) III, IV, I, II d) I, III, IV, II

ASSISTANT STATISTICAL INVESTIGATOR IN

a) 1964 GENERAL SUBORDINATE SERVICE 11.07.2015
b)   30   
 1. Which among the following are incorrect statements?
c)  1. Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company Oct. 16,
1906.
d) 17
2. Coral Mill Strike Feb 27, 1908.
6. Which of the following is the reason for starting an
3. Madras Branch of Home Rule Assoication June 21,
agitation called “Ilavu varam”?
1920.
I. To uplift Tamilian status
4. 26th State Conference of Congress at Tirunelveli
II. To find social harmony Feb. 19, 1919.
III. To train composing elegy a) 1 and 2 b) 3 and 4 c) 2 and 3 d) 4 and 1
IV. To uplift Tamil Teachers’ respect 
‘’ 1. 16,1906.

2. 27, 1908.
I. 
3. 21, 1920
II. 
4.    
III.  
IV.  a)  b) 
a) I b) II c) III d) IV c)  d) 
7. The town of ‘Ranipet’ was created as a mark of re- 2. Match List I with List II and select your answer from
membrance the codes given below the lists:
a) Wife of Raja Desingh List I List II
b) Wife of Sorup singh I. Navajeevan a. Annie Besant
c) Wife of Krishnappa Nayak II II. New India b. Nehru
d) Rani Mangammal III. Swarajya c. T. Prakasam
     IV. National Herald d. M.K. Gandhi
 a) I-d, II-a, III-c, IV-b b) I-a, II-b, III-c, IV-d
a)  c) I-c, II-d, III-b, IV-a d) I-b, II-a, III-d, IV-c
b)  III 
c)  
d)  I II
8. With whom, the sangam rulers didn’t wage war? I.   
a) Sinhales b) Veliars II.   
c) Kadambar d) Yavanas III.   

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 IV.    B)    
a) IIIIIIIV b) IIIIII IV C) 
c) IIIIIIIV d) IIIIIIIV   
3. Match the following: D) 
A) Brahmo Samaj 1. Mirza Ghulam Ahmed   
B) Arya Samaj 2. Abdul Ghaffar Khan A B C D A B C D
C) Ahmadiya Movement 3. Swamy Dayanand a) 4 3 1 2 b) 3 1 4 2
D) Khudai Khidmatgar 4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy c) 2 4 1 3 d) 2 1 4 3
 7. Match the following:
A)    a) Tulsidas 1. Bhavartha Dipika
B)    b) Eknath 2. Dasabodha
C)    c) Ramdas 3. Ram Charitmanas
D)    d) Inaneswara 4. Marathi Gita
A B C D A B C D 
a) 4 3 2 1 b) 3 4 1 2 a)   
c) 3 4 2 1 d) 4 3 1 2 b)   
4. When and to whom did the Danes sell all their settle- c)   
ments in India? d)   
a) 1745-Portuguese b) 1776-French A B C D A B C D
c) 1800-Dutch d) 1845-British a) 2 1 4 3 b) 3 4 2 1
     c) 2 3 4 1 d) 4 1 2 3
 8. Which one of the following is not true about Lalit Kala
a)  Academy?
b)  a) Aimed to promote and propagate understanding
c)  of Indian Dance, Drama and Literature
d)  b) Established on 5 August 1954
5. Why did Anandaranga Pillai call, a ‘Dubash’? c) Has 6 regional centres all over India
a) One who knows two languages d) Extends financial assistance to state academies
b) One who built two towns 
c) One who ruled two kingdoms a)     
d) One who conquered two cities 
‘’ b) 
a)  c) 
b)  d) 
c)  9. Match the List A with B and find out the correct an-
d)  swer from the codes given below:
6. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer List A List B
using the codes given below the lists: a) Rajaram Mohan Roy i. The Kesari
List I List II b) Annie Beasant ii. Sambad Kaumudi
A) Subramania Bharathi 1. Poomi Dhana Yattirai c) Bharathiyar iii. The New India
B) Bharathidasan 2. Penkalin Urimaigal d) Bala Gangadhar Thilak iv. India
C) Namakkal Ramalingam  A B  
Pillai 3. Ravanan 
D) Kavimani Desika  A  B
Vinayagam Pillai 4. Sudesa Geethangal
a)  i. 
 I  I I 
 b)  ii. 
 I  II c)  iii. 
A)    d)  iv. 
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 A B C D A B C D b) Sampanta Mudaliar 2. Rupavati
a) ii iii iv i b) iii ii i iv c) Sankaradas Swamigal 3. Ponvilangu
c) i iii iv ii d) iv ii i iii d) T.P. Krishnaswami Pulavar 4. Pavalakkodi
10. After which incident Rabindranath Tagore returned I II 
his knighthood to the British Raj? 
a) Introduction of Vernacular Press Act 1878 I II
b) Partition of Bengal 1905 a)   
c) Jallian Wala Bagh Incident 1919 b)   
d) Indian Council Act 1919 c)   
      d)   

A B C D A B C D
a) 
a) 4 1 2 3 b) 4 3 1 2
b) 
c) 2 3 4 1 d) 4 3 2 1
c) 
14. Match the following :
d)  a) Kanchipuram Kailasanatha Temple 1. Chalukyas
11. Match List I with List II using the codes given below b) Virupaksha Temple at Pattadakal 2. Vijayanagar
the lists:
c) Kailasa Temple at Ellora 3. Pallavas
List I List II
d) Varadaraja Temple at
A) Hindustan Socialist Kanchipuram 4. Rashtrakutas
Republican Party 1. Tilak 
B) ‘Father of Indian Unrest’ 2. Annie Besant a)   
C) ‘Commonweal’ 3. Bipin Chandra Pal b)   
D) ‘New India’ 4. Bhagat Singh c)   
d)   
 I  II  
 A B C D A B C D
I II a) 3 1 4 2 b) 3 4 1 2
A)  1.  c) 4 3 2 1 d) 2 4 1 3
 15. What is meant by ‘Pitaka’?
B)  a) Umbrella b) Basket c) Gift d) Fort
 2.  ‘’
C)  3.  a)  b)  c)  d) 
D)  4.  16. Which one of the following is incorrectly matched?
A B C D A B C D a) Bharatha Natyam - Tamil Nadu
a) 4 1 2 3 b) 3 4 2 1 b) Kathakali - Kerala
c) 2 3 4 1 d) 1 2 3 4 c) Manipuri - Mizoram
12. Who was the premier of Madras Presidency, when d) Kuchipudi - Andhra Pradesh
Simon Commission visited in 1927? 
a) B. Subbarayan b) P.T. Rajan a)   
c) Rajaji d) T.M. Nair b)   
 c)   
 d)   
a)   b)  17. The ruling party of the Chennai State between 1921
c)  d)  to 1936 was
13. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer a) Indian National Congress
using the codes given below the lists: b) Socialist Party
List I List II c) Justice Party
a) Suryanarayana Sastri 1. Desiyakkodi d) East India Company
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 
a)  
b)  a)  b) 
c)  c)  d) 
7. Who is rightly called as the ‘Father of Indian Cinema’?
d) 
a) Mr. Dadasaheb Phalke b) Mr. V. Shantaram
POSTS INCLUDED IN COMBINED CIVIL SERVICES c) Mr. S.S.Vasan d) Mr.Guru Dutt
EXAMINATION II (Interview Posts) (26.07.2015) 
a)  b) 
1. Who was the first well-known exponent of algebra c)  d) 
among Indian Mathematicians? 8. During the time of Harsha who served as the head of
a) Varahamihra b) Brahmagupta the Nalanda University?
c) Aryabhatta d) Bhaskara a) Fahien b) Hiuen-Tsang
 c) Shilbhadra d) Itsing
a)  b)      
c)  d)  
2. Who was the author of the “Natya Shastra”? a)  b) 
a) Sachin Shankar b) Aswagosha c)  d) 
c) Bharatamuni d) Kalidasa 9. Name the first Novel in Tamil Literature.
“” a) Tembavani
a)  b)  b) Tolkappiyam
c)  d)  c) Kutrala Kuravanchi
3. Who was the leader of Satyagraha Committee, d) Pratapa Mudaliar charitam
organised for the removal of Neel Statue in Chennai? 
a) N.Somayajulu b) P.Varadarajulu a)  b) 
c) Padmasani Ammal d) Srinivasa Ayyangar c)  d) 
      10. Name the first Asian, who was the recipient of Nobel
 Prize for economics.
a) N b) P. a) Subramania Chandrasekhar
c)  d) 
b) Prof. Amartya Sen
4. When did Nehru become the President of Indian Na-
c) Hargobind Khorana
tional Congress?
d) Chandrasekhar Venkatraman
a) On 6 July 1946 b) On 15 August 1947
  
c) On 26 November 1949 d) On 26 January 1950

     
a) 

b) Prof. 
a)  b) 
c)  d)  c) 
5. From which novel was the National song of Vande d) 
Mataram taken? 11. The Forward Bloe was founded by
a) Bavani Mandir b) Sandhya a) M.N. Roy b) Joshi
c) Kesari d) Anand Math c) J.B. Kripalani d) Subash Chandra Bose
       
 a)  b) 
a)  b)  c)  d) 
c)  d)  12. Who was called the Portuguese Knight Courtier and
6. During the freedom struggle on which day the Indian Sea Captain?
National Congress celebrated the Poorna Swaraj? a) Vascodacama b) Columbus
a) January 26, 1930 b) January 26,1929 c) Ferdinand d) Barthalomeu Diaz
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      
 a) 
a)  b)  b) 
c)  d)  c) 
13. Name the first Indian who became the member of d) 
the British Parliament.
4. Rouff is a folk dance of which state?
a) Gandhiji
a) Kashmir b) Himachal Pradesh
b) V.O. Chidambaram Pillai
c) Subramaniya Aiyer c) Andhra Pradesh d) Tamilnadu
d) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 a)  b) 
a)  c)  d) 
b)   5. Match the following and Choose the correct answer
c)  from the codes given below:
d)  A) Maraimalai Adikal 1. Pratapa Mudaliar
Charitiram
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH OFFICER IN
B) Vedanayakam Pillai 2. Viveka Vilakkam
TAMILNADU PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE (20.09.2015)
C) Joseph Beski 3. Kokilampal Kadidankal
D) Venkatachariar 4. Veda Vilakkam
1. Who wrote the popular patriotic song, “Sarae Jahan

Se Accha”?

a) Rabindranath Tagore
A)   
b) Mohammad Iqbal

c) Bankim Chandra Chatterji
B)    
d) Abul Fazl
C)   

 D)   
a)  b)  A B C D A B C D
c)  d)  a) 3 2 1 4 b) 3 1 4 2
2. Match the following: c) 2 1 3 4 d) 1 4 3 2
A) Nehru 1. Mandal Report 6. Match the following:
B) Indira Gandhi 2. GATT Adopted Year
C) V.P. Singh 3. Emergency
A) India enacted Protection of Human 1. 1948
D) P.V. Narasima Rao 4. Indo-China War Rights Act
 B) Universal Declaration of Human 2. 1949
A)    Rights
B)    C) India had formulated concept of 3. 1979
C)    Human Rights
D)    D) India adopted the International 4. 1993
A B C D A B C D covenant on civil and political rights
a) 1 2 3 4 b) 4 3 1 2  
c) 2 1 3 4 d) 3 2 4 1  
3. Which Act is named as Gagging Act? A)   
a) The Indian Press Act 
b) Queens Proclamation B)   
c) Minto Morley Reform Act C)   
d) The Vernacular Press Act 

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 D)  
   
A B C D A B C D a) 
a) 4 1 2 3 b) 1 2 3 4 b) 
c) 4 2 1 3 d) 3 2 1 4 c) 
7. Point out the correct statement regarding Bardoli d) V.V.
movement 12. Whose document has been called as “Magna Carta of
a) The Bardoli Programme of Gandhi laid stress India”?
on removal of untouchability a) Lord canning b) Queen Victoria
b) The Bardoli Programme laid stress on non co- c) Rani of Jhansi d) Lord Dalhousie
operation   ‘  ’ 
c) The Bardoli Programme laid stress on civil 
disobedience a)  b) 
d) The Bardoli Programme laid stress on communal c)  d)  
harmony
13. Who coined the slogan ‘Jai Jawan Jai-Kisan’?
   
 a) Lal Bahadur Shastri b) Lala Lajpat Rai
a)  c) Motilal Nehru d) Patel
 ‘‘
b)     a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
c) 
d)  SUB - INSPECTOR OF FISHERIES / FOREMAN
8. Choose the correct answer: (MARINE) IN TAMILNADU FISHERIES (11.12.2016)
Who referred Bharathiar as the Morning Start of Ref-
ormation? 1. South Indian Liberal Federation was called as
a) Periyar b) Aurobindo a) Janatha Party b) Swarajya Party
c) C.N.Annadurai d) Rajaji c) Congress Party d) Justice Party
 
a)  b)  a)  b) 
c) d)  c)  d) 
9. The invention of ............accelerated the progress of 2. Consider the following statements and select the cor-
Indian civilization rect answer:
a) Copper b) Iron Assertion (A):Branding of horses (Dhak) was intro-
c) Wheel d) Bronze duced by Allauddin Khilji
      Reason (R): To avoid false musters
 a) (A) is true (R) is false
a)  b)  b) Both (A) and (R). (R) true but is not the correct
c)  d)  explanation of (A)
10. Who was the founder of Swaraj party? c) (A) is false (R) is true
a) Motilal Nehru b) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Both (A) and (R) are true
c) Rajaji d) Tilak 
 (A)
a)  b)  
c)  d)   (R)   
11. Name the freedom fighter who was affected by lep- 
rosy in Trichy Jail. a) (A) (R)
a) V.O. Chidambaram Pillai b) (A)(R)(A) (R)
b) Subramania Bharathiar 
c) Subramania Siva c) (A)(R)
d) V.V.Subramania Iyer d) (A)(R)
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3. Match the following : 
A) Vande Madharam 1. Rabindranath Tagore a)  b) 
B) National Anthem 2. Dr. Ambedkar c)  d) 
C) Aligarh Movement 3. Bakkim Chandra 8. The city where the first Sangam was held in
Chatterjee a) Koodal Nagar b) Thenmadurai
D) Bahiskrit Hitkarini 4. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan c) Madurai d) Kapadapuram
 
A)    a)  b) 
B)    c)  d) 
C)    9. Match the following:
D)    A B
A B C D A B C D A) 1206 1. Iltumish
a) 3 1 4 2 b) 1 3 2 4 B) 1211 2. Qutb-ud-din Aibak
c) 2 4 3 1 d) 4 2 1 3 C) 1236 3. Balban
4. Which of the following is correctly matched? D) 1246 4. Raziya
I. Mahendravarman - Rock cut temple 
II. Narasimhavarman - Single stone Rathas A B
III. Raja Simhan - Mahabalipuram shore A)   
temple B)   
 C)   
 D)   
I.    A B C D A B C D
II.    a) 4 3 2 1 b) 2 1 3 4
III.    c) 3 1 4 2 d) 2 1 4 3
a) III b) II III c) I  III d) I, II  III 10. Who was the last ruler of Vijayanagar?
5. Who among the following was/were the member of a) Thirumala b) Ramarayar
Swaraj Party? c) Srirangar III d) Vengadar II
I. Mothilal Nehru II. Sardar Patel 
III. Mahatma Gandhi a)  b) 
a) I and II b) I only c)   d) 
c) II and III d) I, II and III 11. The events that led to the Revolt of 1857 began at
 a) Meerut b) Barrackpore
I.  II.  c) Barailley d) Lucknow
III.  
a) I II b) I a)  b) 
c) II III d) I, IIIII c)  d) 
6. Harappa in Sindhi means 12. Home rule league in Bombay was formed by
a) Garden city a) Nehru b) Mrs. Annie Besant
b) Port city c) Tilak d) Bharathiar
c) Buried city 
d) Civilization of corporation a)  b) 
_____  c)  d) 
a)  b)  13. Which one is false in the following?
c)  d)  I. Social reformer II. Freedom fighter
7. A place in Rajasthan where you can see Jain architec- III. Politician IV. Nationalist
ture 
a) Girnar b) Hathigumba 
c) Saravana belagola d) Mount Abu I.  II. 

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 III.  IV.  c) 
a) I b) II c) III d) IV d) 
14. Who revived the celebration of “Ganapathi” and 4. Fa-Hien, the foreign visitor came to India during the
“Shivaji” festivals to arouse national feeling?
times of
a) Gopala Krishna Gokale
a) Sri Gupta b) Chandra Gupta I
b) Surendranath Banerjee
c) Samudra Gupta d) Chandra Gupta II
c) Bala Gangadhar Tilak
d) M.G Ranade     

“”  “”   
  a)  b) 
a)  b)  c)  d) 
c)  d)  5. Whose idea of India provided inspiration for Milton’s
15. Mohenjo-daro means picture of satan sitting exalted in his book ‘Paradise
a) Garden City b) Port City Lost’?
c) Mound of Dead d) Buried City a) Nicolas Conti b) Sir Thomas Roe
 c) Bernier d) Hawkins
a)  b)     ‘Paradise Lost’ 
c)  d)  
16. The total permanent membership of UN (United Na- 
tion) Security Council is
a)  b) 

c)  d) 

a) 5 b) 10 c) 15 d) 20 6. Which one of the following institute ‘curve’ groups?
a) Political parties
JUNIOR SCIENTIFIC OFFICER IN TAMILNADU FORENSIC
b) AITUC
SCIENCE SUBORDINATE SERVICE (16-10-2016)
c) students Association
d) Protection of Human Rights Association
1. The first people to set new port towns in India
‘’ 
a) British b) Dutch
a) 
c) Portuguese d) French
b) 

c) 
a)  b) 
d) 
c)  d) 
2. Who was the twenty-second Tirthankara? 7. Arrange the Presidents of Indian National Congress in
chronological order.
a) Parsva b) Rishabha
I. George Yule
c) Neminatha d) Mahavira
II. William Wedderburn

III. Dadabhai Naoroji
a)  b) 
c)  d)  IV. Syed Badruddin Tyabji
3. The Chola capital Uraiyur during the Sangam Age was       
famous for 
a) Snake skins b) Leather goods I. 
c) Wood and ivory works d) Pearls and fine Muslin II. 
       III. 
 IV. 
a)  a) IV, III, I, II b) III, IV, I, II
b)  c) II, I, III, IV d) I, III, II, IV

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8. The annulment of Partition of Bengal was done by c) Civil Disobedience Movement
whom? d) Self-Respect Movement
a) Lord Chelmsford b) Lord Hardinge     
c) Lord Minto d) Lord Curzon 
 a)  b) 
a)  b)  c)  d) 
c)  d)  15. In 1940, during the individual Satyagraha the Presi-
9. Christianity spread throughout world during the em- dent of Tamil Nadu Congress Party was
pire of a) Sathyamurthy b) Rajaji
a) Egyptian empire b) French empire c) kamaraj d) Kumarasamy Raja
c) German empire d) Roman empire 
     
 a)  b) 
a)  b)  c)  d) 
c)  d) 
10. Whom did Ahmad Sha Abdali appoint as Chief Admin- PHYCHOLOGIST IN VARIOUS SERVICES (26.02.2017)
istrator and regent in Delhi?
a) Ahmad Khan Bangash b) Munir-Ud-Daulah 1. Match List I with List II:
c) Najib -Ud-Daulah d) Gamar-Ud-Din Khan List I List II
 A) Rajaram Mohan Roy 1. Sati
 B) Narendra Natha Dutta 2. Swami Vivekananda
a)  b)  C) Annie Besant 3. Theosophical Society
c)  d)  D) Sikkhism 4. guru Nanak
11. Shivaji, the maratha ruler crowned himself at I II 
a) Shivaner b) Purandhar I II
c) Torna d) Rajgarh A)   
 B)   
a)  b)  C)   
c)  d)  D)   
12. Who started the Self Respect Movement? A B C D A B C D
a) V.O.Chidambaram Pillai a) 1 2 3 4 b) 4 3 2 1
b) E.V.Ramaswamy Naicker c) 3 4 1 2 d) 2 1 3 4
c) K.Veeramani 2. Charaka and Susruta were prominent
d) Ayothi Pandidadas a) Astronomers b) Mathematicians
 c) Physicians d) Philosophers
a)  

b) 
a)  b) 
c) 
c)  d) 
d) 
3. Which one of the following pairs were the main con-
13. Which of the following period is concerned with the testants for Prime Ministership after the death of
rise of extremism? Nehru?
     a) Morarji Desai and Indira Gandhi
 b) Indira Gandhi and Kamarajar
a) 1885-1905 b) 1905-1920
c) Morarji Desai and Lal Bahadur Sastri
c) 1920-1931 d) 1931-1947 d) Lal Bahadur Sastri and Indira Gandhi
14. Which one of the following Movement began with 
the Dandi March? 
a) Khilafat Movement a) 
b) Non-Cooperation Movement
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 b)  9. Identify the first woman freedom fighter of Tamilnadu,
c)  who was imprisoned for one year for participating in
d)  the Salt Satyagraha
4. Who announced the proclamation of Queen Victoria a) Rukmani Lakshmipathi
at Allahabad in 1858? b) Capt. Lakshmi
a) Lord Canning b) Queen Victoria c) Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy
c) Lord Mayo d) Jhansi Rani Lakshmi Bai d) Nagammaiyar
     
 
a)  b)      

c)  d) 
a)  b) 
5. Arrange the following movements in order:
c)  d) 
I. Khilafat Movement
10. By which name did Ramanuja call the Sudras, who
II. Civil Dis-obedience Movement were converted into vaishnavism and taught them
III. Non-Cooperation Movement the holy mantra, ‘Namo Narayana’?
IV. Quit India Movement a) Adi Dravidas b) Thirukulathor
 c) Dalits d) Harijan
I.   ‘’ 
II.  

III. 
a)  b) 
IV.   
c)  d) 
a) I, III, II, IV b) II, III, I, IV
11. The Treaty of Bassein was signed between the British
c) IV, II, I, III d) III, I, IV, II
and whom?
6. Of the following, who was the last Chinese pilgrim
a) Viswanath b) Baji Rao
who visited India?
c) Balaji Rao d) Sindhia
a) Fahien b) Hiuen-T-sang
‘ ’  
c) I-tsing d) Taongan 
 a)  b) 

c)  d) 
a)  b) 
12. Which is the correct statements about the results of
c)  d)  ’Vaikom Struggle of EVR’?
7. Name the Indian King who was compared with Napo- I. EVR was known as ’Vaikom Hero’
leon
II. The untouchables were allowed to enter the
a) Chandragupta b) Samudragupta Vaikom Mahadevar temple and Worship God.
c) Chandragupta I d) Chandragupta II III. The untouchables were allowed to use street
 around the Vaikom Mahadevar Temple.
a)  b)  IV. Vaikom struggle was organized by a particular sec-
c) I d) II tions of people.
8. Arrange properly the following stages in an individual a) I and II b) I and III
life. c) II and III d) I and IV
1. Sanyasi 2. Grihasta 
3. Brahmachari 4. Vanaprastha 
 I. ‘’
    II. 

   
III.    
a) 3, 2, 4, 1 b) 2, 1, 4, 3 
c) 3, 4, 1, 2 d) 2, 1, 3, 4 IV. 

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 a) I  II b) I III 3. Where did the English set up their first factory of trad-
c) II  III d) I IV ing depot in India
13. Match A with B and choose correct answer from the a) Bombay b) Madras
codes given below : c) Hughli d) Surat
A B 

A) Young Bengal Movement 1. Sayyid Ahmad
a)  b) 
B) Wahabi Movement 2. Gopala Krishna
Gokhale c)  d) 
4. Point out the incorrect statement about Rajaram
C) Ramakrishna mission 3. Louis Vivian Derozio
Mohan Roy.
D) The servants of India
a) He was given the title of Raja in 1831
Society 4. Swami Vivekananda
b) He wrote a pamphlet in Bengali against idol wor-
A B    ship

c) ‘Go back to Vedas’ was his slogan
A B
d) He died at Bristol in 1833
A)          
B)    
C)    a) 1831
 b)     
D)   
A B C D A B C D c) 
a) 3 1 4 2 b) 1 2 3 4 d) 1833 
c) 2 1 3 4 d) 4 2 3 1 5. Among the following who was known as the ‘Political
Sage’?
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF HANDLOOM AND a) W.C.Banerjee
TEXTILES IN TAMILNADU HANDLOOMS AND b) Justice Ranade
TEXTILES SERVICE c) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
d) Balagangadhar Tilak
1. The reign of Shah Jahan is regarded as the Golden Age   ‘ ’ 
of Mughals because of 
a) Economic prosperity a) W.C. b) 
b) Religious Toleration c)  d) 
c) Construction of Taj Mahal 6. Who embraced the gallows with the slogan “I wish
d) Development of Mughal Art and Architecture the downfall of the British Empire”?
   a) Bhagat Singh b) Lalalajpat Rai
 c) Roshanlal d) Ramprasad Bismil
a)  “  ” 
b)  
c)  a)  b) 
d)  c)  d) 
2. Against whom did Shivaji launch his initial campaigns 7. Who among the following freedom fighter partici-
a) The ruler of Bejapur pated in the Vedaranyam March of Rajaji and then
b) The Mughal emperor arrested and imprisoned for one year?
c) The ruler of Ahmadnagar a) Dr.Muthulakshmi
d) The heriditary owner of forts and local officers of b) Mrs.Rukmini Lakshmipathi
Bejapur c) Mrs.Sarojini Naidu
 d) Mrs.Annie Beasant
a)  
b)        

c) 
a) 
d)     
 b) 
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 c)  13. After his return from Surat, V.O.C. decided to cel-
d)  ebrate whose liberation in a grand manner?
8. Match List I with List II correctly and select answer: a) Balagangadhar Tilak b) Bipin Chandra Pal
List I List II c) Lalalajpat Rai d) Subramania Bharathi
A) Karikalan 1. Ceylon ruler      
B) Chenguttuvan 2. Pandya ruler 
C) Nedunchezhiyan I 3. Chola ruler a)  b) 
D) kayavahu 4. Chera ruler c)  d) 
 I  II JAILOR IN TAMILNADU JAIL SERVICE (15.04.2017)
A)  1. 
B)  2.  1. The Regulation No XVII, issued by William Bentinck is
associated with
C)  I 3. 
a) Suppression of female infanticide
D)  4. 
b) Suppression of Human - sacrifices
A B C D A B C D
c) abolition of Sati
a) 3 4 2 1 b) 4 1 2 3
d) Suppression of Thugi
c) 3 1 2 4 d) 3 4 1 2
   
9. The battle of Talaikota took place on
17
a) 27th October 1565 b) 12th December 1565
a)  
c) 23rd January 1565 d) 13th June 1565
b) 

c) 
a) 27, 1565 b) 12, 1565
d) 
c)  d) 13, 1565
2. Who was the founder of the Paper “Kesari”?
10. The Newspaper published by the Arya Samaj was
a) Bal Gangadhara Tilak
a) Arya Samaj b) Arya Prakash
b) Bipin Chandra Pal
c) New India d) Satyartha Prakash
c) Motilal Nehru

d) Madan Mohan Malavia
a)  b) 
“”
c)  d) 
a) 
11. The second Jain council was held at
b) 
a) Pataliputra b) Rajagriha
c) 
c) Vallabhi d) Vaishali
d) 

3. Match List I and List II and select your answers using
a)  b)  the codes given below:
c)  d)  List I List II
12. Write the given incidents in Chronological order using A) Father of Revolutionary 1. Bala Gangadara
the codes given below: thought Tilak
i) Gandhi Irwin Pact. B) Punjab Kesari 2. C.R.Das
ii) Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajaguru executed. C) Father of Indian Unrest 3. Bipin Chandra Pal
iii) Gandhi Irwin Pact endorsed in the congress D) Desabandhu 4. Lalalajpat Rai
iv) Second round table conference.  I   II  
     
  I II
i)  A)  1. 
ii)  
iii)  B)  2. 
iv)  C) 
a) (i), (iii), (ii), (iv) b) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)  3. 
c) (iii), (ii), (iv), (i) d) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii) D)  4. 

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 A B C D A B C D 10. Who was the first viceroy of the British India?
a) 2 1 3 4 b) 1 3 2 4 a) Lord Canning b) Lord Elgin
c) 3 4 1 2 d) 3 2 1 4 c) Lord Curzon d) Lord Rippon
4. Who is the leader of Swadeshi Movement in Tamil 
Nadu?
a)  b) 
a) V.K.Ramanujachari b) Gurunatha Iyer
c)  d) 
c) Tirupur Kumaran d) V.O.Chidambaram Pillai
11. The Indian Independence League in Japan was founded by

a) Sachin Sanyal b) Rashbehari Bose
a)  b) 
c)  d)   c) Har Dayal d) Ganesh Savarkar
5. Who founded the “Servants of Indian society”? ‘’
a) Gopala Krishna Gokhale a)  b) 
b) Bala Gangadhara Tilak c)  d) 
c) Mahatma Gandhi 12. Who was the political Guru of Subhash Chandra Bose?
d) Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar a) Bala Gangadara Tilak b) Sarat Chandra Bose
“ ”   c) Chittaranjan Das d) Mahatma Gandhi
 
a) b)  a)  b) 
c)  d) 
c)  d) 
6. ‘Shaurya Smarak’ the war memorial in memory of
Martyrs is situated in the state of ASSISTANT ENGINEER (AGRICULTURAL
a) Gujarat b) Uttarpradesh ENGINEERING) (07.10.2017)
c) Madhya Pradesh d) West Bengal
(Shaurya Smarak)  1. Which one of the following event is not related with
 Indira Gandhi?
a)  b)  a) Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace and Friendship
c)  d)  b) Bhopal Poisonous Gas Leak Tragedy
7. Who was the chief commander of British army in the c) Operation Blue Star
Battle of Buxar, 1764? d) Indo-Pakistan War, 1971
a) Mr.Ellis b) Holwell      
c) Major Munro d) Warren Hastings 
1764    a) 
 b) 
a)  b) 
c) 
c)  d) 
d) 
8. Name the European who followed “Blue water policy”
in India 2. Swami Dayanand founded Arya Samaj in
a) Albuquerque b) Dupleix a) Bombay b) Calcutta
c) Robert Clive d) De Almedia c) Delhi d) Lucknow
 “ ”   
 a)  b) 
a)  b)  c)  d) 
c)  d)  3. Consider the following statements
9. “Indian poverty and Un-British rule in India” was writ- A) The raising of salt duty from 50 paise to one rupee
ten by in Surat in 1844, Caused a great discontent among
a) R.C.Dutt b) M.G.Ranade the people.
c) Dadabhai Naoroji d) G.V.Joshi B) Faced with a popular movement the government
“     with drew the additional salt levy.
” Choose the correct answer from the options given
a) R.C. b) M.G. below:
c)  d) G.V. a) Both (A) and (B) are true

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 b) (A) is true and (B) is false b) Padmavathi Charithiram
c) Only (A) is true c) Pancha Thandiram
d) Only (B) is true d) Pratapa Mudaliar Charithiram
 
A)       a) 
     b) 
 c) 
B)  d) 

9. What type of Sampradaya of Vaishnavism was propa-
    gated by Ramanuja?

a) Shri Sampradaya b) Brahma Sampradaya
a) (A) (B)
c) Rudra Sampradaya d) Sanakadi Sampradaya
b) (A)(B) 

c) (A)  
d) (B)  a)  b) 
4. Which mission was sent to India in 1946 that com- c)  d) 
prised of Lord Pethick Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps
and A.V.Alexander? 10. By which year the Swatantra Party was established?
a) Cabinet Mission b) Cripps Mission 
c) Simon Commission d) Chelmsford Mission a) 1959 b) 1958
       c) 1957 d) 1956
A.V.     11. Who started Radhaswami Satsang in 1851 with
 Dayalbagh with Agra as its headquarter?
a)  b)  a) Guru Saligram Sahib Bahadur
c)  d)  b) Shiva Dayal Khatri
5. The Chola kings provided lands to the officers and their c) Satyanand Agnihotri
successors were called as d) Madan Mohan Malviya
a) Sala bogam b) Tiruthabogam 
c) Jividham d) Viruthibogam 
 a) 
     b) 
 c) 
a)  b)  d) 
c)  d)  12. Which year the National Mental Health Programme
6. In 1760, Lally was defeated in the battle of Vandavasi was started in India?
by     
a) Robert Clive b) Sir Eyer Coote 
c) John Cradock d) Gillespie a) 1980 b) 1981 c) 1982 d) 1983
      13. Bipin Chandra Pal addressed a huge crowd assembled
 on Marina Beach during the year
a)  b)       
c)  d)  
7. Thiruvasagam was translated into English by a) 1917 b) 1907 c) 1906 d) 1916
a) Robert de Nobili b) Father Mello 14. Which among the following was the first Indian Ver-
c) G.U.Pope d) Father Buchard nacular Newpapper?
 a) Sambadh Kaumudhi b) The Bengalee
a)  b)  c) The Young India d) The People’s Friend
c) G.U.  d)  

8. Which is the First reputed Novel in Tamil?
a)  b) 
a) Kamalambal Charithiram
c)  d) 
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15. In 1930, the Salt Satyagragis marched from .............. b) 
to Vedaranyam   
a) Tiruchirapalli b) Kanyakumari c)   V.A. 
c) Nagapattinam d) Tiruvarur d) 
       A.C.
 3. Which of the following is incorrectly paired?
a)  b)  a) Rig Veda - Suktas
c)  d)  b) Yajur Veda - Magic formulas
16. Who was the poet responsible for the release of c) Sama Veda - Collection of Melodies
Cheran Kanaikkal Irumporai from the Chola Prison? d) Atharvana Veda - Ritual text book
a) Poigaiyar b) Avvaiyar 
c) Kakkai Padiniar d) Nakkirar a)   
 b)   
 c)   
a)  b)  d)   
c)  d)  4. Match List I with List II and select your answer using the
17. One of the main weaving centres of the Imperial codes given below
Cholas was List I List II
a) Tondi b) Maduari A) Tattvabodhini Sabha 1. Atmaram Pandurang
c) Poombuhar d) Uraiyur B) Suddhi Movement 2. Jyotiba Phule
      C) Pranthana Sabha 3. Dayanand Saraswaty
 D) Satyashodak Samaj 4. Devendranath Tagore
a)  b)    I  II  
c)  d)  
I II
ASSISTANT CONSERVATOR OF FORESTS INCLUDED A)   
IN GROUP I A SERVICE (17.12.2017) B)   
C)   
1. In 1398 A.D. when timur invaded India, the Sultan of D)   
Delhi was
A B C D A B C D
a) Nasir-ud-din Muhammad Shah
a) 4 1 2 3 b) 3 2 4 1
b) Mullu Iqbal
c) 4 3 1 2 d) 4 2 1 3
c) Khizr Khan 5. Name the field in which Mrinalini Sarabhai was very
d) Ghiyas-ud-sin Tughluq famous?
       a) Dance b) Drama

c) Music d) Philosophy
a)  b) 

c)  d) 
a)  b) 
2. Point out the wrong statement from the following
c)  d) 
a) The original home of the
6. Consider the following pairs:
Aryans was Central Asia - Max - muller
b) Aryans originally lived in - Bala Gangadhar I. Ettutogai - Purananuru
the Arctic Region Tilak II. Pattuppattu - Silapadigaram
c) The original home of the III. Epic - Tirukural
Aryans was Tibet - V.A.Smith Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?
d) The original home of the a) I and III b) I and II c) II only d) I only
Aryans was - A.C.Das 
Sapta Sindhu
I.   

II.   
a) 
III.   
  
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  I II
a) I III b) I II    

c) II  d) I 
I II
7. The Durant agreement was signed by Sir Mortimer
A)   
Durant with .......... country, in the year 1893.
B)   
a) Afghanistan b) Burma
C)   
c) Srilanka d) Russia

      D)   

A B C D A B C D
a)  b) 
a) 2 4 3 1 b) 4 3 1 2
c)  d)  c) 1 4 2 3 d) 3 1 2 4
8. The Palamau tribal rebellion came to an end after the 11. Which of the following is correctly matched?
capture of its leader ..............
a) Atmiya Sabha - Dayananda Saraswathi
a) Churaman Rai
b) Tattuvabodhini Sabha - Debendranath Tagore
b) Babu Ram Bakshi Rai c) Prarthana Samaj - Raja Ram Mohan Roy
c) Devi Bakhsh Rai d) Theosophical Society - Narandranath Datta
d) Biswanath Nath Shah Deo 
     a)   
 b)   
a)  c)   
b)  d)   
c)  12. Match the following:
d)  A) The Factories Act 1. 1961
9. Match List I with List II select the correct answer us- B) The Apprentice Act 2. 1948
ing the codes given below the list: C) The Beedi and Cigar workers
ListI List II (Conditions of Employment) Act 3. 1986
A) Balal Gangadara Tilak 1. Moderate D) Child Labour (Protection) Act 4. 1966
B) Motilal Nehru 2. Communist 
C) Surendranath Bannerjee 3. Extremist A)   
D) M.N.Roy 4. Swarajist B)   
I II C) 
      
 D)   
I II A B C D A B C D
A)    a) 3 1 2 4 b) 2 1 3 4
B)    c) 2 1 4 3 d) 1 3 2 4
C)    13. Match List I with List II select the correct answer us-
D) M.N.   ing the codes given below the lists:
A B C D A B C D ListI List II
a) 3 4 1 2 b) 2 3 4 1 A) Bihar 1. Nana Saheb
c) 4 3 2 1 d) 2 1 3 4 B) Kanpur 2. Begum Hazrat Mahal
10. Match List I with List II select the correct answer C) Jhansi 3. Kunwar Singh
using the codes given below the lists: D) Lucknow 4. Lakshmi Bai
I  II
ListI List II

A) Aligarh Movement 1. Mohammad Ali Jinnah 
B) Deoband movement 2. Sir Agha khan I II
C) Muslim league 3. MaulanaHussain Ahmed A)   
D) Muslim Electorate 4. Sayyed Ahmed Khan B)   
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 C)    19. Which regulation declared the practice of Sati as ille-
D)    gal and punishable?
A B C D A B C D a) Regulation No. XVII of December 1829
b) Regulation No. XVI of December 1829
a) 4 2 1 3 b) 2 1 4 3
c) Regulation No. XV December 1829
c) 3 1 4 2 d) 2 3 4 1
d) Regulation No. XIV December 1829
14. Which of the following was the main aim of the Suddhi
    
movement?

a) To preach Hinduism a) XVII
b) To encourage widow remarriage b) XVI
c) The reconversion of those Hindus Converted c) XV
into other religions d)  XIV 
d) Educational reforms 20. The Mudrarakshas of Vishakha Datta gives the infor-
 mation of
a)  a) The story of Chandra Gupta Maurya and Chanakya
b)  b) Samudra Gupta and his religious policy
c) The information of Nandas
c) 
 d) Life of Harsha
d)  
a) 
15. Zamindari system was introduced by
b) 
a) Cornwallis b) Curzon
c) 
c) W.Bentick d) Johnson
d) 
 21. Who issued the non-Brahmin manifesto in 1916?
a)  b)  a) Thanthai Periyar
c) W. d)  b) C.N.Anna Durai
16. Who has been regarded as the real founder of Turkish rule in c) Pitti Thiyagaraya Chetty
India? d) K.Kamaraj
a) Ghiyas-ud-din b) Taj-un-din Yildiz “”
c) Mohammad of Ghur d) Qutb-ud-din Aibak a) 
 b) 
 c) 
a)  b)  d) 
c)  d)  22. Arrange the following in chronological order
17. A highly advanced water management system of I. Trichy proclamation
Harappa culture has been unearthed at II. Vellore mutiny
a) Dholavira b) Lothal III. Construction of Fort St.George
c) Kalibangan d) Alamgirpur IV. Kattabomman was hanged to death


 I. 
a)  b)  II. 
III. 
c)  d) 
IV. 
18. Who is associated with ‘Blue water policy’?
a) III, I, IV, II b) III, IV, I, II
a) Albuquerque b) Pedro Alvarez Cabral
c) IV, I, II, III d) IV, III, II, I
c) Almeida d) Nova 23. Jinnah celebrated the resignation of congress Ministry
 as a “Day of Deliverance” on
a)  b)  a) 23rd October, 1939 b) 16th August, 1940
th
c)  d)  c) 16 August, 1946 d) 22nd December, 1939

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 COMBINED ENGINEERING SERVICES EXAMINATION
(24.02.2018)
a)  b) 
c)  d) 
1. Consider the following statement
24. Which Political Party led the Bombay textile mills strike I. The battle of Plassey established the British con-
held in 1928? trol over Bengal
a) Socialist Party of India II. The Battle of Buxar made the East India company
b) Forward Bloc. a sovereign power of India
c) Communist Party of India a) Only I is true
d) Indian National Congress b) Only II is true
c) Both I and II are true
    
 d) Both I and II are wrong

a) 
I. 
b) 

c)  II.      
d)  
25. When was Bhagat Singh hanged at Lahore? a) I  b) II 
a) 21st March 1931 b) 22nd March 1931 c) I II  d) I II 
c) 23rd March 1931 d) 24th March 1931 2. Name the Russian traveller who visited and left the
testimony about Bahmini kingdom

a) Nicolo Conti b) Robert Nobili
a)  b)  c) Domingo Paes d) Athanesius Nikitin
c)  d)       
26. Who founded the Rajah Mundri social reform Associa- 
tion in Madras Presidency? a)  b) 
a) Tulsi Ram b) M.G.Ranade c)  d) 
c) Vireshalingam Pantulud) N.M.Joshi 3. Consider the following statements:
   A) The religion of the Indus people differed from that
 of the vedic people
B) The vedic people worshipped a large number of
a)  b) 
duties which stood for the principal phenomena
c)  d)  of nature viz. Prithvi, Varuna, Indra and the Sun.
27. Match the following and choose the correct answer Choose the correct answer from the options below
from the codes, given below a) (A) is correct (B) is wrong
A) Surat split 1. 1905 b) (B) is correct (A) is wrong
B) Partition of Bengal 2. 1906 c) (A) and (B) are correct
C) Minto - Marley reforms 3. 1907 d) Both (A) and (B) are wrong
D) Indian Muslim League 4. 1909 
    A) 
 
B)     
A)   
   
B)    
C)    
D)    a) (A)(B) 
A B C D A B C D b) (B)(A) 
a) 2 1 3 4 b) 4 2 3 1 c) (A) (B)
c) 3 1 4 2 d) 1 2 4 3 d) (A) (B)

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4. Which of the following movement was responsible for 10. Name the garden created by Babur at Panipat to com-
the beginning of Right to Information Campaign in memorate this victory over Ibrahim Lody in 1526.
India? a) Agra Bagh b) Kabul Bagh
a) Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) c) Amber Bagh d) Jodhpur Bagh
b) Aam Aadmi Party       
c) Peoples Union for Civil Liberties     
d) Indian Anti - Corruption movement led by Anna 
Hazare a)  b) 
 c)  d) 

11. The V ijayanagar ruler Narasimha belonged to
a)  .............. dynasty
b)  a) Sangama b) Saluva
c)  c) Tuluva d) Aravidu
d)  

a)  b) 
5. Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM was formed in
c)  d) 
    
 12. Name the organization established by Devendra Nath
Tagore
a) 1952 b) 1954 c) 1962 d) 1964
a) Sangat sabha b) Tatva Bodhini Sabha
6. When was the Religious Disabilities Act passed?
 c) Indian Reform society d) Brahmosamaj
a) 1824 b) 1852 c) 1850 d) 1856     

7. Who said this about Liagat Alikhan, “He was in the
government but against it”? a)  b) 
a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah c)  d) 
b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azath 13. Name the book of Dr.R.C.Majumdar in which he re-
c) Bhulabhai Desai ferred to the origin of early man
d) Tej Bahadur Sapru i) The Vedic Age
      ii) The History of Early man
“” iii) The Prehistoric age
a)  iv) All the three
b)  Dr.R.C.    
c)  
d)  i) 
8. Under whom did the hill tribes the Ramosis revolt ii) 
against the British? iii) 
a) Dadu Mian b) Chittur Singh iv) 
c) Karam Shah d) Haji Shariatullah a) (i) b) (ii) c) (iii) d) (iv)
  
14. The contest between the Peshwa Raghuji Bhonsle and

Bussy, the Frenchman led to a war and Bussy was
a)  b)  forced to sign a treaty in 1751 known as
c)  d) 
a) Treaty of Bhalke b) Treaty of Purandar
9. Whose remark is this? “1947 was too late, rather than
c) Treaty of Hyderabad d) Treaty of Khandesh
too early”
a) Mountbatten b) Wavell 

c) Ismay d) Atlee

“” 

a)   b) 
a)  b) 
c)  d) 
c)  d) 
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15. The initiative for the establishment of SAARC was taken in C)   
1977 by D)   
a) Zia - ur- Rehman b) Morarji Desai A B C D A B C D
c) Zulfikar Ali Bhulto d) Zia - UI - Hag a) 4 3 2 1 b) 3 2 1 4
‘’ c) 2 4 1 3 d) 1 2 3 4

ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF LABOUR
a)   b) 
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c)  d) 
16. Which one of the following was not related to Kash-
mir dispute between India and Pakistan 1. In which city Theosophical society was founded?
a) Washington b) Newyork
a) The McNaughton Plan
c) Salisbury d) Rome
b) The Dixon Proposals

c) The Graham Mission
a)  b) 
d) The Tashkent Agreement
c)  d) 

2. At which place the first session of the Indian National

Congress held?
a)  a) Calcutta b) Madras
b)  c) Allahabad d) Bombay
c)  
d)  a)  b) 
17. Which among the following is correctly matched? c)  d) 
a) Jawaharlal Nehru - Joint Secretary of 3. What was the name of the first East India company
Allahabad Branch of Home ship that reached Surat in 1600?
Rule League in 1947 a) Hector b) Achilles
b) Rajendra Prasad - Headed the Interim c) Ulysses d) Menelaus
Government in 1946
     
c) Sardar Vallabhbhai 
Patel - Led the Khilafat Movement
a)  b) 
d) Mahatma Gandhi - His father was a Mayor of
c)  d) 
Calcutta
4. Match the following List I and List II

List I List II
a)   
 (Authors) (Works)
 A) Alberuni I Kitab-ul-Ahadish
b)    B) Ibn-Batuta II Tarikh-i-Hind
 C) Badauni III Shah Jahan Nama
c)    D) Inayatkhan IV Rehla
     I   II 
d)    
 I II
18. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?  
A) Madras Courier 1. 1826 A)  I 
B) Friend of India 2. 1829 B)  II 
C) Bengal Herald 3. 1818 C)  III 
D) Udant Martand 4. 1785 D)  IV 
 A B C D A B C D
A)    a) I III II IV b) II IV I III
B)    c) II III IV I d) III IV II I

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5. Arrange the peshwas Chronologically 11. Which work of Amir Khusru deals with the Love be-
I. Madhav Rao II. Balaji Viswanath tween Kizhirkhan and Devaladevi?
III. Baji Rao I IV. Balaji Baji Rao a) Miftahul - Futuh b) Nuh-Siphr
 c) Kamsah d) Ishqiyah
     
I.  II. 

III.  IV. 
a)  b) 
a) II, III, IV, I b) III, IV, II, I
c)  d) 
c) IV, I, III, II d) I, III, IV, II
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1. In British India the first Ryotwari settlement was made at
c) 1810 d) 1549 a) Madras b) Bengal
7. The first patriot who started the Individual Satyagraha c) Agra d) Punjab
in 1940 was

a) Gandhi 
b) Vino Bhave a)  b) 
c) Jai Prakash Narain c)  d) 
d) Madan Mohan Malaviya 2. Arrange the following in chronological order.
      I. Bombay Presidency Association
 II. London Indian Society
a)  b)  III. Mahajan Sabha of Madras
c)  d)  IV. East India Association
8. Who was the first rebel in the revolt of 1857? 
a) Nana Sahib b) Tantia Tope I) 
c) Mangal Pandey d) Bahadur Shah Zafar II) 
 III) 
a)  b)  IV) 
c)  d)  a) IV,III,II,I b) I,II,III,IV
9. In which year Indian Coast Guard formally established c) III,I,II,IV d) II,III,IV,I
as an independent organisation 3. Who were called as Fathers of Congress ?
      I) Pethick Lawrence II) A.O. Hume
 III) David Yule IV) William Wedderburn
a) 1978 b) 1976 a) II and IV b) III and IV
c) 1974 d) 1972 c) I and II d) II and III
10. Arrange the Bhamini Sultans Chronologically 
I. Feroz Shah I)  II) A.O. 
II. Ala-ud-din Mujahid Shah III)  IV) 
III. Ala-ud-din Bhaman Shah a) II IV b) III IV
IV. Muhammad Shah I c) I II d) II III
 4. Which Pallava King was the patron and follower of
Tirumangai Alwar?
I. 
a) Simha Vishnu b) Parameswara
II. 
c) Narasimha d) Nandivarman II
III. 

IV.  
a) I, III, IV, II b) II, IV, I, III a)  b) 
c) IV, III, I, II d) III, IV, II, I c)  d) 
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5. Which Delhi Sultan Introduced market Regulations in c) Indian Council’s Act 1909
India ? d) Indian Council’s Act 1919
a) Kutb-ud-din-Aibak      
b) Ala-ud-din Khilji 
c) Muhammad-bin Tugluq a) 
d) Ibrahim Lodi b) 
      c) 
 d) 
a)  b)  12. Who defeated Nana Saheb ?
c)  d)  a) General Havelock b) General Nicholson
6. Who lived in the court of Muhammad- bin - Tugluq ? c) Campbell d) Neil
a) Alberuni b) Ferishta 
c) Ibn Batuta d) Nuniz a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
a)  b)  13. Which Bhamini Sultan declared ‘Jihad’ against
c)  d)  Vijayanagar?
7. Who is the President of the Congress during Surat Split a) Yusuf Adil Khan b) Humayun
between the Moderates and the Extremists?
c) Muhammad Shah d) Nizam Shah
a) Rash Bihari Gosh
      
b) Pheroze Shah 
c) M.M. Malviya a)  b) 
d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale c)  d) 
‘’ 14. Through whom Krishnandeva Raya imported Arabian
 Horses?
a)  a) Dutch b) Danish
b)  c) Irish d) Portuguese
c)      
d)  
8. Who was the Governor General when the revolt of a)  b) 
1857 broke out?
c)  d) 
a) Lord Dalhousie b) Lord Canning
17. Who sponsored Swami Vivekananda to visit Chicago ?
c) Lord Lawrence d) Lord Elgin
a) Lord Dufferin b) Lord. Minto

c) Sir. Arthur Havlock d) Sir. Elihu yale


a)  b) 
a)  b) 
c)  d) 
c)  d) 
9. The first split in Congress took place in the year
 MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTOR GRADE II
a) 1904 b) 1905 c) 1969 d) 1907 (10 . 06. 2018)
10. Who was the political Guru of Subramania Bharathi ?
a) Bharathi Dasan b) Sr. Niveditha 1. Ashoka the great actual coronation
c) Sarojini Naidu d) V. O. Chidambaram a) 273 B.C b) 272 B.C
 c) 271B.C d) 269 B.C
a)  b) Sr. 
c)  d) V. O. a)  b) 
11. Which conuncil Act introduced the separate elector- c)  d) 
ate for the Muslims? 2. The guardian of Shivaji was
a) Indian Council’s Act 1861 a) Malik Amber b) Balaji Viswanath
b) Indian Council’s Act 1892 c) Afzal Khan d) Dadaji Kondadev

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  c) . 1533 - 1545 d) .1550 - 1565
a)  b)  8. Match the following
c)  d)  A) Diwan-i-arz 1. Firoz Tughlaq
3. Who used the Indian soldiers to fight against B) Diwan-i-Riyasat 2. Muhammad bin Tughlaq
Alexander? C) Diwan-i-Kohi 3. Alauddin Khilji
a) Cyrus b) Darius I D) Diwan-i- Khairat 4. Balban
c) Xerxes d) Darius III 
    A)   

B)   
a)  b) 
C)   
c)  d) 
D)   
4. Match the following A B C D A B C D
A) First Battle of Panipat 1. 1540 a) 4 3 2 1 b) 1 2 3 4
B) Battle of Bilgram 2. 1526 c) 2 4 3 1 d) 3 1 2 4
C) Battle of Haldighati 3. 1556 9. During the freedom struggle on which day the Indian
D) Second Battle of Panipat 4. 1576 National Congress celebrated the Poorna Swaraj
 a) January 26, 1930 b) January 29, 1929
A)    c) August 16, 1930 d) August 18, 1930
B)    
C)    
D)    a)  b) 

A B C D A B C D c)  d) 

a) 4 2 1 3 b) 2 4 3 1 10. The Benaras Hindu University was founded due to the

initiative of
c) 2 1 4 3 d) 2 1 3 4
a) Nehru b) Gandhi
5. When Subhash Chandra Bose reached Berlin, he was
c) Madan Mohan Malaviya d) Gokhale
welcomed by?
    
a) Hitler b) Goebbles

c) Hindenberg d) Ribbentrop
a)  b) 
       
c)  d) 

11. When was the new Enfield Rifle with greased car-
a)  b)  tridges introduced in the British Indian Army?
c)  d)  a) November 1856 b) December 1856
6. The Maratha Chief who had correspondence with c) January 1857 d) February 1857
Keralavarma and Tamil rebels was
    
a) Yadul Nayak b) Dhoondaji Waug      
c) Pazhazhi Raja d) Raja Wodayar 
      a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
a)  b)  12. Who shifted the treasury from Murshidabad to
c)  d)  Calcutta?
7. Krishnadeva Raya was the ruler of the Vijayanagar a) Curzon b) Rippon
empire between c) Bentinck d) Warren Hastings
a) A.D. 1485 - 1502 b) A.D. 1509 - 1530 
c) A.D. 1533 - 1545 d) A.D.1550 - 1565 
 a)  b) 
a)  1485 - 1502 b)  c)  d) 
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c) 
1. Who was the Prime Minister of England at the time of d) 
First Round Table conference? 6. During the time of Quit India Movement, Which village
a) Ramsay Macdonald people attacked a prison released all the prisoners in
b) Loyid George Tamil Nadu?
a) Palani b) Tiruvadanai
c) Arthur Balfour
c) Vadugapatti d) Uttumalai
d) Pitt the Younger
  
     

 
a)  b)  a)  b) 
c)  d)  c)  d) 
2. Who revealed the secrets of the Panchalam Kurichi 7. In which place Marudu Pandiya built a mosque?
fort to the British? a) Tiruchuli b) Sivagangai
a) Mamulanar b) Udaiyar Servai c) Narikkudi d) Udaiyar palayam
c) Ramalinga Mudaliyar d) Muthu Karuppan 
 a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
a)  b)  8. ‘A uniform measures of autonomy shall be granted to
c)  d)  all provinces’ - Whose principle is this?
3. When Bahadur Shah was proclaimed as Pad Shah by a) Sayyad Ahmad Khan b) Abdul Rahman
the mutineers? c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah d) Habibullah
a) 11th May 1857 b) 24th May 1857 
c) 11th June 1857 d) 24th June 1857 
a)  b) 
    
 c)  d) 
a)  b)  9. The widow Remarriage act was passed in the year
a) AD 1846 b) AD 1856
c)  d) 
c) AD 1870 d) AD 1891
4. The founder of the art school, Kalakshetra in Chennai is

a) Padma Subramaniyam
a)  b) 
b) Chitra Visveshwaran
c)  d) 
c) T.K. Pattammal 10. Who was a women minister in the Rajaji Ministry of
d) Rukmini Devi Arundale Tamilnadu?
 a) Jothi Venkatachalam
_____ b) Sarojini Naidu
a)  c) Sathiyavani Muthu
b)  d) Muthulakshmi Reddy
c)  
d)  
5. The Pandiyan king who atoned for the injustice ren- a)  b) 
dered to Kannagi and renovated Madurai, is c)  d) 
a) Talayalanganathucheru ventra Neduncheliyan 11. Bharathi was the editor of _____ from 1905 to 1921
b) Ariyappadai Kadantha Neduncheliyan a) Manonmaniyam b) Bala Bharathi
c) Chithiramadathu Thunjiya Nanmaran c) Swadesamitran d) Young India
d) Maduraiyai Meeta Sundara Pandiyan _______

    
a)  b) 

c)  d) 
a) 
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12. Collector Ash was shot down by ________ at Maniyachi a) Lord Canning b) Lord Dufferin
on 17th June 1911 in Tirunelveli. c) Lord Linlithglow d) Lord Minto
a) V.V.S.Iyer b) Natesa Mudaliyar 
c) M.C.RaJa d) Vanchinathan 
 a)  b) 
      ____________ c)  d) 

3. Akbar’s land revenue system was known as
a) V.V.S.  b) 
a) Todarmal’s revenue b) Zabti system
c) M.C.  d) 
c) Bandobast system d) Rayadhwari system
13. In which year the name ‘Neethikkatchi’ was changed
into ‘Dravida Kazhagam’? 
‘’‘’ a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
a) 1935 b) 1949 c) 1929 d) 1944 4. Which of the following Buddhist universities was the
14. Which Englishman defeated Pulithevar? last one to be founded in India?
a) Sir Eyre Coote b) Captain Campell a) Nalanda University
c) Major Banerman d) Cornel Jackson b) Taxila University
 c) Nagarjunakonda University
a)  b)  d) Vikramasila University
c)  d)      

15. The society for the propagation of the Gospel founded
in the year a) 
      b) 
  c) 
a) 1698 b) 1713 c) 1701 d) 1676 d) 
16. When was Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy, nominated as a 5. Which year 1st Newspaper was from Bombay (Now
member of the Madras Legislative Council? Mumbai)?
      
 
a) 1931 b) 1950 c) 1926 d) 1948 a) 1780 b) 1785 c) 1786 d) 1789
17. Kulothonga III built the Kambha Kareshwara temple at 6. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose organised the Indian
National Army in
a) Thirubhuvanam b) Darasuram
a) Berlin b) Tokyo
c) Tanjore d) Chidambaram
c) Singapore d) Rangoon
    
  

a)  b) 
a)  b) 
c)  d) 
c)  d) 
PUBLIC HEALTH SUBORDINATE SERVICE 7. Who was the Governor-General when Indian National
(22.12.2018) Congress founded?
a) Lord Elgin b) Lord Ripon
1. Which food item was associated with the 1857 Re- c) Lord Dufferin d) Lord Lytton
volt?      
a) Poori b) Dosa 
c) Parotta d) Chapati a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
a)  b)  8. When was the British Government announced the
c)  d)  Partition of Bengal?
2. Who depicted the Indian National Congress as ‘Mi- a) 20th July 1905 b) 21st July 1905
croscopic Minority Organisation’? c) 22nd July 1905 d) 23rd July 1905
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a)  b)  Hoysela king
c)  d)  a) ViraBallala II b) Narasimhan II
9. When was the Chauri Chaura incident occurred? c) Billiama - VI d) None
a) 4th February 1922 b) 5th February 1922 
c) 6th February 1922 d) 7th February 1922 
 a) II b) II
a)  b)  c) VI d) 
c)  d)  15. Who has assumed the title Badushah?
10. The Zamindari settlements were of two types namely a) Babur b) Akbar
a) Permanent settlement and temporary c) ShahJahan d) Aurangazeb
settlement 
b) Total settlement and part settlement a)  b) 
c) Immediate settlement and late settlement c)  d) 
d) Direct settlement and indirect settlement CCS -I EXAMINATION (GROUP - I) SERVICES
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
a)  1. Choose the correct sequence of the following using
the codes given below:
b) 
I. Qutbuddin Aibak, Iltutmish, Raziya, Balban
c) 
II. Jahangir, Humayun, Akbar, Shahiahan
d)  III. Balaji Viswanath, Balaji Baji rao, Baji Rao I, Shivaji
11. Which Viceroy convened The Simla Conference in a) I and II only b) II and III only
1945?
c) I only d) III only
a) Lord Linlithgow b) Lord Willingdon    
c) Lord Mounbatten d) Lord Wavell 
 I. 
a)  b)   II. 
c)  d)  III. 

12. Choose the correct answer
a) I II  b) II III 
Nana Saheb was the adopted son of whom?
c) I  d) III 
a) Peshwa Baji Rao II b) Balaji Baji Rao
2. Which of the following were among the main exports
c) Bahadur shah d) Jansi Rani Lakshmi Bai of Indus valley people. Select the correct answer from
 the codes given below:
 I. Wheat II. Barley III. Cotton IV. Gold
a)  a) I, II and III b) II and III c) I and II d) III and IV
b)       

c) 
I.  II.  III.  IV. 
d) 
a) I, II  III b) II  III
13. Which of the following metal were not used by the c) I II d) III  IV
Harappans?
3. Match List I with List II correctly and select answer:
a) Copper and Iron b) Gold and Silver
List I List II
c) Iron and Tin d) Silver and Bronze
A) Santhal’s Rebellion 1 . 1923
 B) Maplah Rebellion 2 . 1929
a)  b)  C) V izag Revolution 3 . 1921
c)  d)  D) Bardoli Satyagraha 4 . 1855

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  I II     C) Kaikilai 3 . Madhyamam
 D) Vuzhai 4 . Gandharam
 I  II  I II    
A)    
B)     I  II
C)    A)   
D)    B)   
A B C D A B C D C)   
a) 1 3 2 4 b) 4 1 2 3 D)   
c) 4 3 1 2 d) 2 3 1 4 A B C D A B C D
4. Match List I with List II correctly and select answer: a) 2 1 4 3 b) 1 2 3 4
List I List II c) 1 3 2 4 d) 4 2 3 1
A) Dupleix 1. Nawab of Bengal 7. Which of the following is/are not correct? Minto-
B) Anwar -ud-din 2 . British Admiral Morley reforms of 1909 introduced the following.
C) Shuja - ud-Daula 3 . French Governor I. The system of direct election was introduced in
D) Polock 4 . Nawab of Carnatic provinces
 I II     II. The act did not enfranchise women
 III. It introduced dyarchy in provinces
 I  II IV. Communal electorate was introduced
A)    a) I only b) I and III
B)    c) II and III d) III only
C)    
D)    
A B C D A B C D 
a) 3 2 4 1 b) 1 2 3 4 I. 
c) 3 4 1 2 d) 1 3 4 2 II. 
5. Match List I with List II of the following with suitable III. 
options:
IV. 
List I List II
a) I  b) I III 
A) Brahmanas 1 . Forest Texts
c) II III  d) III 
B) Sama Veda 2 . Guide Book for Priests
8. Who bestowed the title Sardar on Vallabhai Patel?
C) Aranyakas 3 . Ritual Texts
a) Dadabhai Naoroji b) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Yajur Veda 4 . Book of Chants
c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Rajendra Prasad
 I II    
 
 I  II a)  b) 
A)    c)  d) 
B)    9. During 1857 revolt which army remained loyal to the
British?
C)   
a) Bombay Army b) Bengal Army
D)   
A B C D A B C D c) Madras Army d) Avadh Army
a) 4 3 1 2 b) 3 4 1 2 

c) 3 1 4 2 d) 1 2 3 4
a)  b) 
6. Match List I with List II of the following with suitable
options: c)   d) 
List I List II 10. Pick out the wrong statement.
A) Kural 1 . Rishabham a) Veerappa, the Zamindar of Koppal rose against
B) Thutham 2 . Shadjam the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1819.

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 b) Gadkaris were military classes who garisoned Reason (R): The chief characteristics mesolithic were
Maratha forts the stone implements used were extremely small and
c) Chakra Bisoi was the Khonds leader made up of Chalcedony and silicate instead of quartz-
d) Sindhu and Kanhu were the leaders of the Kols ite.
 Select your anser according to the coding scheme
below:
a)      
 a) Both A and R are false
b)  b) Both A and R are true but R is not the explanation
for A
c) 
c) Both A and R are true and is the correct
d)     explanation for A

d) A is true but R is false
11. Identify the statement, which is not the cause for the
failure of Quit India Movement 
A) British Government arrested key leaders in      
anticipation to the movement 

B) Nehru and Rajaji disbelieved in Direct Action
   
C) Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League supported
     
the movement

D) British Government suppressed the movement 
a) A alone b) A and B alone     
c) C alone d) A, B and D alone 
     a) A R 

b) A  R  R  A 


A) 
c) A  R R A


B) 
d) A R 
 
C)  14. The 50th Anniversary of 1965 Indo-Pak war was ob-
 served on
D)  a) 27 August 2015 b) 30 July 2015
a) A  b) A  B  c) 30 August 2015 d) 28 August 2015
c) C  d) A, B  D     
12. Match the following: 
A) Simon Commission 1. 1928 a) 27  2015 b) 30  2015
B) Nehru Report 2. 1932 c) 30  2015 d) 
C) Second Round Table Conference 3. 1927 15. Consider the following about scientific dating of the
pre-historic period: Choose the correct code.
D) Communal Award 4. 1931
 I. The technique of radio-carbon dating is based on
measuring the loss of carbon in organic materials
A)    over a period of time
B)   
II. Another dating method is known as dendro -
C)    chronology
D)    III. Palaeo Botany is the alalysis of prehistoric plants.
A B C D A B C D IV. Palaeography is the study of ancient writing
a) 1 4 3 2 b) 3 1 4 2 a) I, II and III only b) I, II, III and IV
c) 3 1 2 4 d) 2 4 1 3
c) II and III only d) III and IV only
13. Consider the following statements:
    
Assertion (A): Scholars distinguished a culture mid-     
way between Palaeolithic and Neolithic called 
Mesolithic.
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 I.  b) 
    
 c)       
      
II.      
 d)    
III.  
IV.  19. Consider the following relating to Babur.
 I. The Autobiography of Babur is ‘Babur Namah’
a) I, II  III  b) I, II, III  IV II. It was originally written in Persian
c) II  III  d) III  IV  a) Only I is true
16. Give the correct chronological order: b) Only II is true
I. Pitt’s India Act c) Both I and II are true
II. Minto - Morley Act d) Both I and II are false
III. Regulating Act 
IV. Montague - Chelmsford Act I. ‘’
 II. 
I.  a) I 
II.  b) II 
III.  c) I, II 
IV.  d) I, II 
a) II, I, III, IV b) IV, II, III, I 20. In which Indian state the women, except Brahmin
and Bania community, terminate their marriage rela-
c) III, I, II, IV d) I, II, III, IV
tionship through the custom called “Chudi Pahanana”
17. Who was known as the Father of Library movement in
a) Andhra Pradesh b) Chattisgarh
Tamil Nadu?
c) Jharghand d) Uttaranchal
a) Thiru. T.K. Avinashilingam
     
b) Thiru. M.P. Periyasamy     ‘ ’
c) Thiru. M. Bhaktavatsalam 
d) Thiru. Muthiah Chettiar a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
 21. Which of the following statements about Mother
a) T.K. Teresa is/are True?
b) M.P. I. She founded a new congregation named Mission-
c) M. aries of Charity
d)  II. She did not accept the citizenship of India
18. Identify the correct order of events of Muhammad - III. She was awarded the Nobel peace prize
bin-Tughluq. IV. In 1929 A.D. she came to Madras as a Missionary
a) Transfer of capital, conquest of Nagarkot, Reform a) I and III correct b) II and IV correct
of Token currency, Taxation of the Doab c) I and IV correct d) I, III and IV correct
b) Reform of Token currency, Transfer of capital,     
Taxation of the Doab, conquest of Nagarkot 
c) Taxation of the Doab, Transfer of capital, Reform I. 
of Token currency, conquest of Nagarkot
II. 
d) Conquest of Nagarkot, Reform of Token currency,
Taxation of the Doab, Transfer of the capital III. 
IV.      
    
 
a)    a) I III  b) II  IV 
 c) I  IV  d) I, III  IV 

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22. The Dravidian Mahajana Sabha was founded by    
a) Pundit Iyothee Thoss 
b) C.S.Srinivasa Raghava Iyangar a) 
c) P. Theagaraya Chetty 
d) C. Natesa Mudaliar b)       
 
a)  c) 
b)  d)    
c)  
d)  27. Consider the following Reason and Assertion and
choose the correct anser from the codes given below:
23. In which Indian National Congress session, Mahatma
Gandhi was made its President? Reason (R): The diet of the early Tamils was not very
a) Nagpur b) Gaya different from that of modern times. Ghee played a
conspicious part in the diet of all, it fetched a high
c) Belgaum d) Kanpur
price.

Assertion(A): Ghee was used freely both by vegetar-

ian and non vegetarian Avur Mulankilar and Purattinai
a)  b)  Nannaganar spoken of the use of ghee.
c)  d) 
a) R and A are correct, but A is the correct assertion
24. Match the List I and List II and choose the correct of R
code given below.
b) R and A are correct, A is not the correct
List I List II explanation of R
A) Amrit Bazaar Patrika 1 . Dadabhai Naoroji c) R is true but A is wrong
B) Indian Mirror 2 . Sisir Kumar Gosh
d) R is wrong but A is true
C) Voice of India 3 . G.Varma

D) Advocate 4 . N.N.Sen 
 I   II     (R)     
 
      
I II 
A)    (A) 
B)    
C)   G.      
D)   N.N. 
A B C D A B C D a)     
a) 2 4 1 3 b) 3 2 4 1 
c) 4 3 1 2 d) 4 2 3 1 b) 
25. Which Act is called as Black Act by the Indians? 
a) Vernacular Press Act b) Indian Arms Act c) 
c) Rowlatt Act d) Opium Act d) 
 28. Choose the correct answer from the codes given be-
a)  b)  low:
c)  d)  Assertion (A): The Indian National Movement reached
its crescendo in the non-co-operation movement in
26. Identify the statement which is wrong
1920-22. It was in this context that there occured a
a) The modern method of writing with coma, resurgence of working class activity in the years 1920-
semicolon, and full stop are the contributions of 22. The working class created its own organisation to
the missionaries defend its class rights.
b) Robert DFe Nobili and Caldwell enriched Tamil Reason (R): Lokamanya Tilak was one of the moving
Language spirits in the formation of AITUC. AITUC was formed
c) The missionaries introduced Printing Press in 1920
d) The missionaries spread the Gospel only a) Both A and R are correct
through English language
b) A alone is correct
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(A) 
    1. During whose period the Charter Act of 1793 was
    passed?
      a) Sir John Shore b) Lord Wellesely
 c) Lord Cornwallis d) Warren Hastings
(R)         
    
    a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
a) A R  b) A  2. Who was Gandhiji’s private Secretary?
c) R  d) A  R  a) Patwardhan b) C.R.Das
29. which of the following recommendations are made c) Mahadev Desai d) Balarama Krishna
by the Administrative Reforms Commission to improve

relations between the political and permanent execu-
tive? a)  b) C.R. 
1. Minister should try to develop a climate of c)  d) 
fearlessness and fair play among senior officers. 3. Who was the author of Broken Wing?
2. Minister should not intervene in day to-day a) Sarojini Naidu b) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
administration except incase of servous c) Aruna Asaf Ali d) Annie Besant
maladministration

3. The official relationship of Secretary to Minister
a)  b) 
should be one of confidence of that of Minister to
Secretary one of loyalty c)  d) 
4. Prime Minister should take special interest to 4. The British Prime Minister Mac Donald announced
arrest/growing of unhealthy personal affiliations. the communal award which provided separate
electroate for the .................
5. All major decisions should be briefly reduced to
writings a) Land Lords b) Scheduled Castes
a) 1, 2, 4 and 5 b) 1, 2, 3 and 5 c) Workers d) Peasants
c) 2, 3 and 4 d) 1, 2 and 5 


     a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
1.  5. In which context is the word ‘Arya’ used in the Vedic
  Period?
 a) Caste b) Religion
2.       c) Apostrophic Word d) Tribe
    
    


3.     
a)  b) 
  
 c)  d) 
4.  6. In which Indus valley city, the remains of a dockyard
 was found?
5.      a) Amari b) Lothal
 c) Mohenjodaro d) Rangpur
a)  b)      
c)  d)  

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 a)  b)  
c)  d)  a)  b) 
7. Identify the correctly matched pairs among the fol- c)  d) 
lowing: 11. In whose period Post Office Act 1854 was passed?
1. First Buddhiest Council - Ajatashatru a) Lord Canning b) Lord Elgin
2. Second Buddhiest Council - Asoka
c) Lord Mayo d) Lord Dalhousie
3. Third Buddhiest Council - Kalasoka
      
4. Fourth Buddhiest Council - Kaniska 
a) 1 and 4 only b) 1 and 3 only
a)  b) 
c) 2 and 3 only d) 3 and 4 only
c)  d) 

 12. Match the following and choose the correct answer
    from the codes given bleow
    Newspaper Founder
    A) Kesari 1 . Lala Lajpat Rai
    B) Mook Nayak 2 . Annie Besant
a)  b)  C) New India 3 . B.G.T ilak
c)  d)  D) Punjabi 4 . Ambedkar
8. Match the following:    
A) Diwani - i- Ariz 1 . Department of 
Slaves  
B) Diwani - i- Bandagan 2 . Department of
A)   
Military
B)   
C) Diwani - i- Qaza - i-
Mamalik 3 . Department of C)   B.G.
Agriculture D)   
D) Diwani - i- Kohi 4 . Department of A B C D A B C D
Justice
a) 3 4 2 1 b) 2 4 3 1

c) 1 2 3 4 d) 4 3 2 1
A)   
B)    13. Which of Iltutmish’s adversaries was drowned in the
Indus?
C)   
a) Tajuddin Yildiz b) Nasir-ud-Qahacha
D)   
A B C D A B C D c) Aram Shah d) Ali Mardan
a) 2 1 4 3 b) 1 2 4 3      

c) 3 2 4 1 d) 4 3 1 2
9. Who was defeated by Iltutmish in the battle of Tarain a)  b) 
in January 1216? c)  d) 
a) Nasir - ud- Qahacha b) Tajuddin Yildiz 14. What was the national emblem for Gupta Empire
c) Alimardan d) Jalaluddin a) Lion b) Peacock
      c) Garuda d) Elephant


a)  b) 
a)  b) 
c)  d) 
c)  d) 
10. Who was the first woman president of the Indian Na-
tional congress? 15. The Gupta inscription found in Allahabad belongs to
a) Annie Besant b) Sarojini Naidu a) Chandragupta Maurya b) Kumaragupta
c) Sucheta Kripalani d) Rajkumari Amrit kaur c) Samudragupta d) Brahmagupta

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      7. Where was the first Indian National Congress met?
 a) Delhi b) Bombay
a)  b)  c) Calcutta d) Madras
c)  d)  
a)  b) 
COMBINED CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION - II (GROUP
c)  d) 
- II SERVICED) (INTERVIEW POSTS)(11. 08. 2018)
8. The Forward Block Party was started by whom?
1. Who started Home rule Movement in India? a) Subhash Chandra Bose
a) Annie Besant b) Sathiya Moorthi b) Motilal Nehru
c) E.V.Ramasamy d) K.Kamaraj c) Rajaji
 d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
a)  b)  
c)  d)  a)  b) 
2. Tamil Books were printed firstly by whom? c)  d) 
a) Rev.Zieganbalg b) Rev.Schwartz 9. In which year Madras Mahajana Sabha was started?
c) Rev.Grundler d) Rober De Nobili 
 a) 1881 b) 1882 c) 1883 d) 1884
a)  b)  10. Who was the founder of the Thiruchenkodu Ashram?
c)  d)  a) E.V. Ramasamy Naicker
b) Rajaji
3. Who converted Mahendra Varma I from Jainism to
Saivism? c) Gandhiji
a) Sambandar b) Appar d) C.N. Annadurai
c) Sundarar d) Perundevar 
     a)  b) 
 c)  d) 
a)  b)  11. Annamalai University was started in the year
c)  d)  
4. Name the chieftain who patronised Kabilar a) 1915 b) 1929 c) 1921 d) 1945
a) Ay b) Adhiyan c) Pari d) Anji 12. Who assumed the title “Chittrakara Puli”?
 a) Rajaraja I b) Narshima I
a)  b)  c)  d)  c) Mahendra Varman I d) Nandhi Varman
5. The Portuguese Sailor who reached Calicut in 1498 “”
A.D.was? a)  b) 
a) De Almedia b) Vasco da Gama c)  d) 
c) Robert Clive d) Albuquerque 13. Which congress conference was attended by
 Bharatiyar?
 a) Surat Conference b) Madras Conference
a)  b)  c) Bombay Conference d) Lucknow Conference
c)  d)  
6. On behalf of the Justice Party, who won and formed a)  b) 
the ministry in 1923 election? c)  d) 
a) T.N.Sivagnanam Pillai b) P.Thiyagaraj Chettiyar 14. Who extended co-coperation to Puli Tevar?
c) T.M.Nair d) M.C.Raja a) The French b) The English
 c) The Portuguese d) The Dutch
 
a) T.N. b) P. a)  b) 
c) T.M. d) M.C. c)  d) 

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15. Which Act provided Provincial Autonomy to India ? b) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is not the
a) Rowlatt Act - 1919 correct explanation of (A).
b) Minto - Morley Reform Act - 1909 c) (A) is true and (R) is false
c) The Government of India Act - 1935 d) (A) is false and (R) is true
d) Montagu - Chelmsford Reform Act - 1919 

     
 (A) 

a)   

b)   
 (R)      
c)        
d)   
16. Whom of the following was the Chief Organiser of the a) (A) (R)(R)(A)
Revolt of 1857 in Bihar ? 
a) Amar Singh b) Kunwar Singh b) (A) (R)(R)(A)
c) Pir Ali d) Imaduddin 
 c) (A)(R) 
 d) (A) (R)
a)  b)  4. Consider the following pairs:
c)  d)  I. Rukmani Devi Arundale - Kalakshetra
II. Ravi Shankar - Sangeet Natak Academy
CCS - I EXAMINATION (GROUP I SERVICES)
III. M.S. Subbulakshmi - Ramon Magsaysay Award
(19.02.2017)
IV. J.Krishnamoorthy - Bharat Ratna
Which of the pair given above is/are incorrect?
1. List out the following Bahmani rulers in chronological
order and mark the correct choice:  
I. Alauddin Bahman ShahII. Muhammad Shah III I.  
III. Ahmad Shah IV. Firuz Shah II.   
 III.   
 IV.   
I.  II.  
III.  IV.  a) I and IV only b) II only
a) I, III, IV, II b) I, IV, III, II c) IV only d) II and III only
c) IV, I, III, II d) IV, I, II, III 5. Who constructed a canal of 150 miles from Yamuna to
2. The twenty second Tirthankara of Jainism was Hissar for agricultural purpose?
a) Rishabha b) Badrabhagu a) Qutb-ub-din-Aibak
c) Parsva d) Neminatha b) Firoz Shah Tughlaqu
 c) Khizir Khan
a)  b)  d) Sikandar Lodi
c)  d)  
3. Consider the following two statements consisting of 
Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and select your answer a)  b) 
using the codes given below. c)  d) 
Assertion (A) : The temple was not merely a place of
6. The villages Raksas and Tagdi related to which battle?
worship; it filled a large place in the cultural and eco-
nomic life of the Tamil people a) Battle of Talikotta b) Battle of Takkolam
Reasoning (R) : Its construction and maintenance of- c) Battle of Panipat 1761 d) Battle of Adayar
fered employment to number of architects and crafts-      
men. 
a) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct a)  b) 
explanation of (A) c)  d) 
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7. “Khudai Khidmatgar” movement was organised by 
a) Abdul Gaffar Khan b) Syed Ahmed Khan a)  b) 
c) Liaquat Ali Khan d) Muhammed Iqbal c)  d) 
“” 12. Arrange the following items according to the chrono-
a)  b)  logical order:
c)  d)  I. Simon Commission
8. Match List I with List II and select your answers using II. Gandhi Irwin Pact
the codes below: III. Third Round Table Conference
List I List II IV. Dandi March
A) Madan Mohan Malavia 1. Azad Hind Fauz 
B) A.O. Hume 2. Home Rule Movement I. 
C) Annie Besant 3. BanarasHindu University II. 
D) Subash Chandra Bose 4. Indian National Congress III. 
 I  II   IV. 

a) II, I, IV, III b) IV, III, II, I
I II
c) I, IV, II, III d) I, IV, III, II
a)   
13. Choose the incorrect pair from the following:
b) A.O.  
a) Sarvajanik Sabha - M.G. Ranade
c)   
 b) Indian National Congress - A.O. Hume
d)    c) London Indian Association - Dadabai Naoroji
A B C D A B C D d) Madras Native Association - Surendranath
Banerjee
a) 3 2 4 1 b) 3 4 2 1
   
c) 2 3 1 4 d) 2 1 4 3 
9. Which is not correctly matched? a)   
a) Rahmat Ali - Pakistan b)   
b) Vinoba Bhave - Second Individual Satyagrahi c)   
c) Linlithgow - August Offer d) 
d) Rajaji - Kulakalvi Thittam   
 14. Match the following and choose the correct answer
a)    from the codes given below:
b)   a) Dandi March 1. 1931
c)    b) Karachi Congress 2. 1932
d)    c) Third Round Table Conference 3. 1930
d) Lahore Congress 4. 1929
10. Ramsay Macdonald, the British Prime Minister an-
nounced the communal award on    

a) 16th August, 1932 b) 20th September, 1932
a)   
c) 17th November, 1932 d) 16th August, 1946
b)   
    
c)   

d)   
a)  b) 
A B C D A B C D
c)  d) 
a) 2 1 4 3 b) 1 3 2 4
11. Who was the First Women President of Indian National
c) 3 1 2 4 d) 4 2 3 1
Congress?
15. Point out the correct statement in the following :
a) Sarojini Naidu b) Annie Besant
a) Indus people Worshipped Lord Indra
c) Vijayalakshmi Pandit d) Indira Gandhi
b) Indus civilization was a rural civilization

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 c) Iron was unknown to the Indus people C. Lothal 3. Rajasthan
d) The ‘Great bath’ was located at Harappa D. Khizhadi 4. Gujarat
 I II 
a)  
b)  II II
c)  A.  1. 
d) “” B.  2. 
16. Name the social reformer who supported Dr. C.  3. 
Muthulakshmi Reddy for the abolition of Devadasi sys-
D.  4. 
tem
A B C D A B C D
a) E.V. Ramasamy Naicker
a) 4 3 1 2 b) 3 4 1 2
b) T.M. Nair
c) 1 3 2 4 d) 2 1 3 4
c) C.N. Anna Durai
d) Natesa Mudaliar 20. “Indian Home Rule Society” was set up by
Dr.      a) Hardayal
 b) Shyamji Krishnavarma
a)  c) Madan Lal Dhingra
b) T.M.  d) V. D. Savarkar
c)  “   ”  
d)  
17. Which one of the following European war was associ- a) 
ated with Third Carnatic War ? b) 
a) The Seven Year’s War c) 
b) The War of Austrian Succession d) V. D. 
c) The War of Roses 21. Arrange the following in chronological order
d) The Austro - Prussian War I. Surat split
 II. Birth of the Muslim league

III. Partition of Bengal
a) 
IV. Reunion of Bengal
b) 

c) 
I. 
d) 
II. 
18. Which of the following is incorrectly paired ?
III.  
a) Mir Bakhshi - Military advisor
IV. 
b) Mushtasib - Censor of public morals
a) IV, III, I, II b) III, I, II, IV
c) Kotwal - Revenue collector
c) III, II, I, IV d) II, III, I, IV
d) Qazi - ul - Quzat - Judicial officer
22. Which of the following is correctly matched ?

I. Rajaji - Pro - changers
a) 
II. Vanchinathan - Robert William Ashe
b)      
 III. K. Kamaraj - Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in 1952
c)  IV. Sathyamurthy - Mayor of Madurai
d)  
19. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer I. 
using the code given below the lists II. 
List I List II III. K. 1952 
A. Kalibangan 1. Gulf of Cambay IV. 
B. Sarkotada 2. Madurai a) I b) II c) III d) IV
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23. Who was the chair Person in the All India Socialist a)  b) 
Conference hold at Patna, 1934 ? c)  d) 
a) M.N. Roy 3. Tashkent Declaration is associated to which of the fol-
b) Acharya Narendra Deva lowing
c) Sampurnanand a) Indo-Pakistan War (1965)
d) Sri Prakasa b) Indo-Pakistan WAr (2000)
 c) Bangaladesh Independence (1971)

d) Chinese Aggression (1962)
a) 

b) 
a) 
c) 
d)  b) 
24. Which of the following is incorrectly paired ? c) 
A. Indian Mirror - D.N. Tagore d) 
B. Vande Mataram - Madam Cama 4. Bhoodhan movement was started by
C. Tribune - D.S. Majeeta a) Jayaprakash Narayanan
D. Bombay Herald - J. A. Hickey b) Jawaharlal Nehru
a) A is correct b) A and B are correct c) Achariya Vinoba Bhave
c) B and C are correct d) D alone is correct d) Dr.Rajendra Prasad
 
A.  - D.N.  a) 
B.  -  b) 
C.  - D.S.  c) 
D.  - J. A.  d) 
a) A  b) A B  5. Who influenced Gandhiji on non - violence and truth?
c) B C  d) D a) Gokhale b) Tilak
c) Lala lajapat rai d) Rajchandra ravjibhai
ASSISTANT HORTICULTURE OFFICER (11.08.2018)
   
1. Match the following 
A. Shakuntala 1. Visakadatta a)  b) 
B. Mudrarakshasa 2. Dandin c)  d) 
C. Miruchakatika 3. Kalidasa 6. Match the following
D. Dasakumaracharita 4. Sudraka A. Sangama 1. Veera Narasimha
 B. Saluva 2. Harihara
A    C. Thuluva 3. Saluva Narasimha
B    D. Araveedu 4. Thirumala
C    
D    A   
A B C D A B C D B   
a) 1 3 2 4 b) 3 1 4 2 C   
c) 4 3 1 2 d) 2 4 3 1 D   
2. In 1908, Bharathiyar organized a huge public meeting A B C D A B C D
at chennai to celebrate a) 4 2 1 3 b) 2 3 1 4
a) Swaraj day b) Birth day c) 3 2 1 4 d) 2 4 1 3
c) Press day d) Service day 7. Which of the following is / are wrong?
      i. A jain monk named Vajranandhi established a
 Dravida sangha at Madurai
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 ii. Achyuta Vikrantha was the most popular Kalabhra 11. Koranganathar Temple is located in
ruler who ruled over Kanchi a) Sri villiputhur b) Sri Rangam
iii. The chola age is known as the ‘Golden age’ of c) Srinivasanallur d) Thiruvadanai
Mahasabha 
iv. Sanskrit was the official language of Pallava a)  b) 
a) (ii) only wrong c)  d) 
b) (i) and (ii) are correct 12. Which government enacted a law for abolishing
“Devadasi” system?
c) (ii) and (iv) are wrong
a) Justice party b) British
d) (i), (ii), and (iv) are wrong
c) Congress d) Chola kingdom

“”
i       a)  b) 

c)  d) 
ii 
13. Find out the wrong answer.

a) Mansabdari system was introduced by Akbar
iii     
b) Akbar built Bulandarwaza at Fathepur Sikri

c) Shershah was the forerunner of Akbar
iv 
d) Akbar was known as Salim
a) (ii) 

b) (i) (ii)
a) 
c) (ii) (iv)
b) 
d) (i), (iii) (iv)
c) 
8. Later Vedic period which division is called
d) 
Dakshinapatha?
14. Who introduced Tax for irrigation first time in India?
a) Northern India b) Central India
a) Feroz Tuglaq b) Mohamed bin Tuglaq
c) Southern India d) Out of India
c) Alaudin Khilji d) Iltumish
      



a)  b)  a)  b) 
c)  d)  c)  d) 
9. Assertion (A) : In 1944 Justice Party was changed as 15. Consider the following statements
“Dravidar Kazhagam”.
Assertion (A) : Shershah was called the Father of Mod-
Reason (R) : The name was changed in appreciation ern currency.
of the achievements of Justice Party. Reason (R) : Because of the introduction of silver and
a) Both (A) and (R) are correct gold coins mint his name in Devanagari script.
b) Both (A) and (R) are false a) (A) is true (R) is false
c) (A) is true (R) is false b) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) explains (A)
d) (A) is false (R) is true c) Both (A) and (R) are false
 (A)       d) (A) is true but (R) does not explains (A)
 
(R)  (A)      
 
a) (A) (R)  (R)      
b) (A) (R)      

c) (A)(R)
a) (A)
d) (A) (R)
b) (A) (R)(R)(A)
10. In which year the Justice Party formed the government. 
 c) (A) (R)
a) 1918 b) 1920 c) 1923 d) 1926 d) (A)(R)(A)
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16. Which State Government confers the Basavasri Award?    I    II 
a) Andhra Pradesh b) Karnataka 
c) Telangana d) Bihar  I  II
  
a)  b)  A)  1. 1936 - 1943
c)  d)  B)  2. 1931 - 1936
17. Who is also venerated as ‘Second Buddha’? C)  3. 1926 - 1931
a) Maitreya b) Padmasambhava D)   4. 1943 - 1947
c) Avalokitesvara d) Mahasthamaprapta A B C D A B C D
 a) 3 4 2 1 b) 1 2 3 4
a)  b)  c) 4 3 1 2 d) 2 1 4 3
c)  d)  6. Match the following
A) Kailasanatha Temple 1. Mamallapuram
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B) Mandagapattu 2. Music Inscription
1. The All India Muslim League (AIML) was formed in the C) Sea - shore Temple 3. Rajasimha I
year D) Kudumian Malai 4. Mahendra Varman I
    (AIML)   

A)   
a) 1904 b) 1905 c) 1906 d) 1907
B)   
2. Who is the author of the newspaper ‘Yuhantharam’?
C)   
a) Aravindar b) Bharathidasan
D)   
c) G.Subramania Iyer d) Lokmanya Tilak
A B C D A B C D
‘’
a) 3 2 1 4 b) 4 2 1 3
a)  b) 
c) 3 4 1 2 d) 4 1 2 3
c)  d) 
7. How many members attended in the first session of
3. Who among the following was popularly known as the INC?
“Father of Revolutionary Thought in India”?
     
a) Lala Lajpat Rai b) Aurobindo Ghosh 
c) Bal Gangathar Tilak d) Bipin Chandra Pal a) 607 b) 436 c) 72 d) 65
“ 8. Which of the following person accompanied Gandhi
“  to Champaran?
a)  b)  a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Vallabhai Patel
c)  d)  c) J.B. Kripalani d) C.R. Dass
4. Who was the president of the Tamilnadu congress
   
committee in 1930? 
a) T.S.S. Rajan b) C.Rajagopalachari
a)  b) 
c) T.Prakasam d) K.nageswara Rao
c) J.B. d) C.R.

9. Who was the author of Brihatsamhita?

a) Sudraka b) Varahamihira
a)  b) 
c) Vishnusharma d) Dandin
c)  d) 

5. Match the following List I and List II
a)  b) 
List I List II
c)  d) 
(Viceroy) (Year of Tenure)
10. Which of the following is not one of the earliest Tamil
A) Lord Wavell 1. 1936 - 1943
grammer works?
B) Lord Irwin 2. 1931 - 1936
a) Agattiyam b) Kuruntogai
C) Lord Linlithgow 3. 1926 - 1931
c) Pannirupadalam d) Kakkai padiniyam
D) Lord Wellington 4. 1943 - 1947
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      
 
a)  b)  a)  b) 
c)  d)  c)  d) 
11. Who is the author of ‘Fo-Kero-Ki’? 3. Which is the main period of the neolithic age in the
a) Fa-hien b) Hieun Tsang Indian sub - continent?
c) Itsing d) Marco Polo a) 2000 - 4000 B.C b) 5000 - 3000 B. c
 c) 4000 - 1800 B.C d) 2000 - 2400 B.C.
a)  b)  
c)  d)  a)  b) 
12. Arrange the events in chronological order c)  d) 
1. Battle of Adyar 2. Battle of Plassey 4. Albuquerque conquered Goa from
3. Battle of Buxar 4. Battle of Wandiwash a) Adil Shah b) Ahak Khan
 c) Khawa Khan d) Usuf Adil Khan
1.  2.  _______ 
3.  4.  a)  b) 
a) 1 4 3 2 b) 1 2 4 3 c)  d) 
c) 4 1 2 3 d) 1 4 2 3 5. Who was the minister of Kattabomman?
13. Who was the author of ‘Tarikh i Sher Shahi’? a) Umaitturai
a) Khwaja Khizr Khan b) Siva Subramaniya pillai
b) Al beruni c) Jagavira Pandyan
c) Khwaja Niamatullah Harawi d) Bomuturai

d) Abbas Khan Sarwani
a)  b) 

c)  d) 
a) 
6. The principles of Aligargh movement was opposed by
b) 
whom?
c) 
a) W.C. Banerjee
d) 
b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
14. The Asiatic Society was founded by William Jones on
c) LalaLajapati Roy
a) January 15, 1784 b) March 7, 1785
d) Netaji
c) January 15, 1785 d) March 15, 1789 
 a) W.C.  b) 
a)  b)  c)  d) 
c)  d)  7. Which among the following is a keystone of Hindu
culture?
ASSISTANT JAILOR IN PRISON DEPARTMENT
IN THE TAMIL NADU JAIL SUBORDINATE a) Respect to elders
SERVICE (06-01-2019) b) Temple Dharshana
c) Relationship protocol
1. Periyar visited which countrty in 1931? d) Touching feet in respect
a) China b) Russia 
c) Singapore d) Australia a) 
 b) 
a)  b)  c) 
c)  d)  d) 
2. Who was the governor general of India during the 8. Which country was the first explorer from Europe to
time of Vira Pandya Kattabomman? India ?
a) Lord Wellesley b) Sir John Shore a) Holland b) France
c) Sir George Barlow d) Lord Hastings c) England d) Portuguese
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       
 a)  b) 
a)  b)  c)  d) 
c)  d)  14. The religion founded by Guru Nanak
9. Name the social movement starte by E.V. R a) Parsi religion b) Sikhism
a) Thanithamil Iyakkam c) Jainism d) Buddhism
b) Self Respect movement 
c) Civil Disobedience movement a)  b) 
d) Anti untouchability movement c)  d) 
       15. Who was the leader of the Wahabi movement?
 a) Abdullah b) Syed Ahmad
a)  b)  c) Nizam Muhammad d) Ali Ismail
c)  d)  
10. Which revolutionist started ‘Bala Bharathi’ newspa- a)  b) 
per against British in TamilNadu? c)  d) 
a) Vanchinathan b) V.V.S. Iyer
JUNIOR INSPECTOR OF CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN
c) Sathyamurthy d) Subramaniya Siva
CO-OPERATIVE DEPARTMENT IN THE TAMIL NADU
    
 CO-OPERATIVE SUBORDINATE SERVICE (27.01.2019)
a)  b) V.V.S.
1. Who assisted to V.O.C in the 1908 Thirunelveli upris-
c)  d) 
ing?
11. In 1947, the South Indian Liberal Federation came to
a) Subramania Bharathi b) Subramania Siva
be known as
a) Dravida Kazhagam c) Subramania Iyer d) Sathiyamoorthy
b) Women Improvement League      

c) Justice Party
a)  b) 
d) Minority United League
c)  d) 
      
_______  2. Match the following
a)  A) Vanchinathan 1. Chennai
b)  B) V.O.C 2. Tiruppur
c)  C) Annie Besant 3. Tuticorin
d)  D) Kodi Katha Kumaran 4. Maniyachchi
12. ‘Khadi’ s the thought of 
a) Gandhiji A)   
b) Jawaharlal Nehru B)   
c) BalaGangadar Thilak C)   
d) Netaji Subash Chandra Bose D)   
‘’ A B C D A B C D
a)  a) 4 2 1 3 b) 4 3 1 2
b)  c) 3 2 1 4 d) 3 1 2 4
c)  3. Which one of the following is not correct pair?
d)  I) Poona pact - 1931 A.D.
13. The length of the history of the Tamil language is II) Second Round Table conference - 1932 A.D.
estimated as
III) Government of India Act - 1935 A.D
a) 3500 years b) 2500 years
IV) Crips Mission - 1942 A.D.
c) 1500 years d) 400 years
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 a) I and II only b) III and IV only c) 
c) I and IV only d) II and III only d) 
 7. Consider the following statements :
I)    Assertion (A) : Babur won the first Battle of Panipat.
II)    Reason (R) : Babur used artillery in the battle.
III)    a) (A) is correct; (R) is correct explanation of (A)
IV)    b) (A) is wrong; (R) is correct
a) I II  b) III IV  c) (A) and (R) is wrong
c) I IV  d) II III  d) (A) is correct ; (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
4. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 
using the codes given below the list (A) 
List - I List - II (R)      

A) Battle of Khanwa 1. 1540 A.D.
a) (A)(R)(A)
B) Battle of Ghagra 2. 1539 A.D. 
C) Battle of Chausa 3. 1529 A.D. b) (A)(R)
D) Battle of Kannauj 4. 1527 A.D. c) (A)(R)
    d) (A)   (R)  (A)    
 
  8. Who wrote the book of “Rasagangadhara”?
A)    a) Dara Shukoh
B)    b) Abul Faizi
c) Jaganatha Panditha
C)   
d) Tulsidas
D)   

A B C D A B C D
a) 
a) 3 4 2 1 b) 4 3 2 1 b)  
c) 2 1 4 3 d) 1 2 3 4 c) 
5. Arrange the following freedom struggle incidents in d) 
Chronological order 9. Who founded Calcutta Hindu College in 1817, along
I. Licknow Pact with David Hare?
II. Surat Split a) Swami Dayananda Saraswathi
III. The Lahore Congress session b) Swami Vivekananda
IV. Swarajya Party c) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
d) Rajaram Mohan Roy


I.  II. 

III.  IV.  a) 
a) I, II, III, IV b) II, I, IV, III b) 
c) IV, III, II, I d) III, IV, I, II c) 
6. Who was the political Guru of Ghandhi? d) 
a) Surendranath Banerjee 10. When was the first Lutheran missionaries arrived in
b) W.C. Banerjee Tranquebar?
a) 1706 A.D. b) 1606 A.D.
c) Bipin Chandrapal
c) 1506 A.D d) 1406 A.D
d) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
    
 
a)  a)  b) 
b) W.C.  c)  d) 

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11. Region of Krishnadevaraya was c) 
a) From 1409 upto 1429 A.D. d) 
b) From 1509 upto 1529 A.D. 16. Who visited the port of Kayal in twice?
c) From 1609 upto 1629 A.D. a) Marco Polo b) Domingo paes
d) From 1709 upto 1729 A.D. c) Nuniz d) Nikitin
 
a) 
a)  b) 
b) 
c)  d) 
c) 
17. Manur inscription provides an account of _____ ad-
d)  ministration.
12. Who was the Congress President in Tamil Nadu dur- a) Central b) Village
ing the time of Non Co- Operation movement?
c) Military d) Provincial
a) Kamarajar b) Rajagobalachariyar
________
c) E.V. Ramasamy d) Sathiyamoorthy

 
a)  b) 

c)  d) 
a)  b) 
18. Ajanta paintings belong to the period of
c) E.V.  d) 
13. Match the following a) Chalukyas b) Rastrakutas
A) Rajagopalachari 1. King Maker c) Satavahanas d) Pallavas
B) Kamaraj 2. Kappalotiya Tamizhan 
C) V.O. Chidambarampillai 3. Mundasu Kavi a)  b) 
D) Bharathiyar 4. Chanakya c)  d) 
 19. Sufism was originated from
A)    a) Iran b) China c) Egypt d) India
B)    
C)    a)  b)  c)  d) 
D)    20. Consider the following statements
A B C D A B C D Assertion (A) : The beginning of Swadeshi Movement
a) 4 1 2 3 b) 1 2 3 4 in Tamil Nadu.
c) 3 2 4 1 d) 2 4 1 3 Reason (R) : The cause of the partition of Bengal in
14. Whom often referred as “chanakya” for his diplomatic 1905.
skills? a) Both (A) and (R) are incorrect
a) Kamaraj b) C.N. Annadurai b) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct
c) C. Rajagoplachari d) S. Satyamurthi explanation for (A)
     c) (A) is correct but (R) is incorrect
 d) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not correct
a)  b) C.N.  explanation for (A)
c) C. d) S. 
15. C.N. Annadurau was conferred doctorate by (A) 
a) Anna University (R)
b) Annamalai University 
c) Manipal University a) (A) (R) 
d) Bharathiyar University b)  (A)    (R)     
C.N.     (R) (A) 
 c) (A)(R) 
a)  d) (A) (R) 
b)  (R) (A) 

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21. After the Surat Split in 1907 an associated was started ________
by V.O.C and nationalist a)  b) 
a) Chennai Swadeshi Sangam c)  d) 
b) Chennai Mahajana Sangam 25. Which is wrongly matched?
c) Chennai Bharathamatha Sangam a) Sudhi Movement - Swami Dayananda
d) Chennai Jana Sangam Saraswathi
b) Ayyavazhi - Vaikunda Swamigal
         
 c) Ramakrishna - Ramakrishna Parama
Movement Hamsar
a) 
d) Namdhari Movement - Bama Ram Singh
b) 

c) 
a)   
d) 
b)   
22. When was the Lord Rippon’s resolution adopted?
c)  
 d)   
a) 1992 b) 1858 c) 1882 d) 1870 26. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
23. Malik Kafur arrived in Madurai in a) Arya Samaj - Vadalur
a) 1211 A.D. b) 1311 A.D. b) Theosophical society - New York (USA)
c) 1212 A.D. d) 1312 A.D c) Samarasa Sudha
________ Sanmargha Sangham - Belur
a)  b)  d) Satyashodak Samaj - Gujarat
c)  d)  
a)   
24. The pandiyas mainly imported the item of
b)   
a) Ivory b) Gold
c)   
c) Elephant d) Horse
d)   

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