General Studies: Important for Exam: Modern Indian History MCQ Part 17

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Q. Shivaji got a dictionary of official technical terms prepared, which was entitled

(a) Shaman Shaba Kasha

(b) Raja – tantric Kasha

(c) Raja – Vyavahara Kasha

(d) Raja Kasha

Q. In 1674, Shivaji made Aligarh the capital of the Maratha dominions, which was captured by the Mughals in 1689 after the execution of Sham haji, after the fall of Aligarh, the Maratha government (from 1689 to 1707) was conducted from

(a) Jingo or Ginger

(b) Vishalgarh

(c) Samara

(d) All of the above

Q. At the time of Aurangzeb՚s death the Maratha leadership was in the hands of

(a) Shambhaji

(b) Raja ram

(c) Tarabai

(d) Shivaji II

Q. The foundation of the Maratha confederacy (i.e.. , the division of the Maratha dominion amongst Maratha confederates) was laid by

(a) Sadhu

(b) Balaji Vishwanth

(c) Bajra I

(d) Raja ram

Q. “Let us strike at the trunk of the withering tree and the branches will fall off themselves” . This Maratha policy was outlined by

(a) Shivaji

(b) Tarabai

(c) Balaji Biswanath

(d) Bajirao I

Q. Bajirao I “was the most remarkable man next to Shivaji himself that his nation had produced “, but his greatest failure of his life was

(a) Expansion of the Marathas in the North

(b) His marriage to Martini

(c) His campaigns against the Nizami

(d) His inability to secure the harmonious co – operation of the Maratha confederacy

Q. The Maratha fiat was unfurled over the fort of Attack during the regime of pesewa

(a) Balaji Biswanath

(b) Bajirao I

(c) Balaji Bajirao

(d) Madhav Rao I

Q. The Maratha confederacy virtually dissolved after

(a) The death of Sadhu (1749)

(b) The death of Bajirao I

(c) The Third battle of Pan pat

(d) Balaji Bajirao

Q. Saiyyid brothers – popularly known as “kind makers” – came into prominence during the reign of

(a) Bahadur Shah I

(b) Jalandhar Shah

(c) Farrukhsiyar

(d) Rafiddarjat

Q. The religious policy of the Saiyyid brother is reminiscent of the days of

(a) Fires Tughluqs

(b) Aurangzeb

(c) Akbar

(d) Dara Shiloh