Question 1

Who is known as the Liberator of India for expelling the Portuguese?

Accepted Answer

Shivaji

Question 2

Rabindranath Tagore returned his knighthood in 1919 to protest against which event?

Accepted Answer

Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Question 3

The famous Nizam Shahi dynasty ruled which Deccan Sultanate?

Accepted Answer

Ahmednagar

Question 4

The Bengal Gazette (Hicky's Gazette) published in 1780 was India's first English-language newspaper founded by whom?

Accepted Answer

James Augustus Hicky

Question 5

Which Deccan sultanate was the last to be annexed by Aurangzeb?

Accepted Answer

Golconda

Question 6

The magazine 'Young India' was associated with which Indian leader?

Accepted Answer

Mahatma Gandhi

Question 7

What was unique about the architecture of Humayun's Tomb in Delhi?

Accepted Answer

It was the first garden-tomb in India

Question 8

Bal Gangadhar Tilak's newspaper 'Kesari' was published in which language?

Accepted Answer

Marathi

Question 9

Who wrote the Tuzuk-i-Timuri (Memoirs attributed to Timur)?

Accepted Answer

Timur himself

Question 10

The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was passed by which Viceroy to suppress Indian language newspapers?

Accepted Answer

Lord Lytton

Indian History One Liner Questions with Answers

The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was passed by which Viceroy to suppress Indian language newspapers?