Histriography : Indian Tradition

1. In the ancient period in India, oral recitals helped to preserve memories of ______________

• (A) great deeds of ancestors

• (B) mythological lore

• (C) social transitions

• (D) all of the above

2 Sohgaura copper-plate was found in the state of ___

• (A) Madhya Pradesh

• (B) Uttar Pradesh

• (C) Rajasthan

• (D) Assam

3. The inscriptions on copper plate of Mauryan period found at Sohagaura, Uttar Pradesh is in ______script.

• (A) Gurumukhi

• (B) Hebrew

• (C) Sanskrit

• (D) Brahmi

4. King Harsha's biography Harshacharit was written by_____.

• (A) Banabhatta

• (B) Aryabhatta

• (C) Altamash

• (D) Kalidasa

5. In the medieval India, the historians in the courts of Muslim rulers were influenced by _____ historiography.

• (A) Greek and Iranian

• (B) Colonial and Orientalist

• (C) Arabic and Persian

• (D) Western and Eastern

6. Tuzuk-i-Baburi is the autobiography of the

Mughal Emperor ____.

• (A) Aurangzeb

• (B) Babur

• (C) Altamash

• (D) Muhibuddin Tughlaq

7. Alberuni wrote in ____ language about Indian knowledge and social life.

• A) Hindi

  
  

• (B) Sanskrit

• (C) Latin

• (D) Arabic

8. _______was the first Director General of the

Archaeological Survey of India.

• (A) Alexander Cunningham

• (B) William Jones

• (C) John Marshall

• (D) Friedrich Max Muller

9. _____, wrote two volumes on Indian History, which showed somewhat impartial treatment of the subject.

• (A) William Wilson Hunter

• (B) John Marshall

• (C) Mountstuart Elphinstone

• (D) James Mill

10. _____translated the Sanskrit text of 'Hitopadesh'.

• (A) Jarnes Mill

• (B) Friedrich Max Muller

• (C) Mountstuart Elphinstone

• (D) Sir John Marshall