UGC NTA NET/JRF EXAM, June 2019 (HISTORY)

Total Questions: 100

1. What is NOT true about Bagor site?

Correct Answer: (c) From its very beginning traces of agriculture have been found
Solution:

From its very beginning traces of agriculture have been found Solution: Bagor is a large village on the left bank of the Kothari river, a non perennial river.
The prehistoric sites lies on a large and prominent sand dunes locally known as Mahasati. Bagor is largest Mesolithic habitation site known in India.
The flaked stone Industry is rich with several hundred thousand worked pieces and comprising the most common material at Bagor.
No other site in India has yielded microliths in comparable numbers.
The Bagor Industry is characterized by a very high standard of craftsmanship. The history of domestication of animals in India goes as for back as 7000-6000 years B.C. from the Mesolithic cultural phases at site Bagor. Adamgarh, Hoshangabad. At Bagor sheep/goat has been Identified as the principle domestic animals.

2. Match List-I with List-II :

List-I (Sites)List-II (Chronology)
(A) Kili Gul Muhammad(i) 3370–2530 BC
(B) Damb Sadaat(ii) 4555–3885 BC
(C) Kalibangan(iii) 2980–1865 BC
(D) Rana Ghundai(iv) 4550–3165 BC

Choose the correct option from those given below: below:

ABCD
(a)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
(b)(ii)(i)(iii)(iv)
(c)(iii)(iv)(ii)(i)
(d)(iv)(ii)(iii)(i)
Correct Answer: (b)
Solution:

Damb Sadaat is a sub culture of Harappa. This type with mainly in Quetta valley of central Balochistan Quetta miri is largest Damb Sadaat site. Kiligul Muhammad is situated in Quetta valley.
Rana Ghundai is situated in Laralai valley. Kali Bangan is situated in Rajasthan. Prehistoric and Bumarayan character of Indus valley civilization was first Identified from this site.

3. Identify the site which does NOT attest to the presence of horse.

Correct Answer: (b) Burzahom (1700 BC)
Solution:

Burzahom does not attest to the presence of horse. Burzahom in Kashmir was a Neolithic as well as megalithic site. The early phase is known for course pottery, mud plastered pit dwellings and stone tools.
Later phase shows house constructed on ground the dead were buried sometimes with domesticated and wild animals.

4. Match List-I with List-II :

List-I (Authors)List-II (Articles)
(A) Irfan Habib(i) Perhaps the Earliest Ploughed Field So Far Excavated Anywhere in the World
(B) B. B. Lal(ii) Imagining River Saraswati—A Defence of Common Sense
(C) R. H. Meadow(iii) Regional Interaction in Indus Valley Urbanization
(D) Marcia A. Fentress(iv) The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals in the Greater Indus Valley

Choose the correct option from those given below:

ABCD
(a)(i)(iii)(ii)(iv)
(b)(iv)(i)(ii)(iii)
(c)(ii)(i)(iii)(iv)
(d)(ii)(i)(iv)(iii)
Correct Answer: (d)
Solution:

Irfan Habib: Imagining River Saraswati-A Defence of Common Sense.
B.B. Lal : Perhaps the Earliest Ploughed Field So Far Excavated Anywhere in the World.
R.H. Meadow: The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals in the Greater Indus Valley.
Maria A. Fentress : Regional Interaction in Indus Valley Urbanization.

5. The radiocarbon dating is applied in which of the following?

Correct Answer: (b) Archaeology
Solution:

Epigraphy: The study of written matter recorded on hard or durable material. Manuscripts was traditionally any document written by hand.
Archival materials Archives collect and preserve original records of notable figures & organisations.

6. Which one of the following statements with regard to Bharatpur Archaeological site is :

Correct Answer: (b) It is situated in Rajasthan, from where the traces of bones of migratory birds were found.
Solution:

It is situated in Rajasthan from where traces of bones of migratory birds were found. Bharatpur is village in Purba bardhman district in West Bengal.
The lower portions of excavations indicated the presence of Neolithic-Chalcolithic habitation. Several statues of Buddha and remains of Buddhist stupa were found from Bharatpur. The stupa at Bharatpur were built during 7-9ᵗʰ century.

7. "Once the Ahar Iron is disposed of, all 14 C dates for the earliest iron levels in India appear to cluster around 1000 BС or little earlier." Whose opinion is this?

Correct Answer: (c) Irfan Habib
Solution:

This view is of Irfan Habib. The coming of Iron age is a long-debated one in the field of historical studies while some Historians argue that the use of Iron into India as a result of diffusion from the west some argue that it developed independently Historians like T.N. Roy.
Argue for an early and late phase of Iron age while Dilip K Chakrabarti and A. Ghosh do not Argue for an early phase of Iron uses and place the chronology at 1300 B.C. to 700 B.C. thus the period from 1000 B.C. to 100 A.D. is archeologically reffered to the study of Iron age.
The Iron age sites in India are associated with the finds of PGW pottery painted grey ware has been found at most sites which have evidenced use of Iron in the subcontinent.

8. Match List-I with List-II :

List-I (Texts)List-II (Authors)
(A) Kavyadarsa(i) Abhinavagupta
(B) Ashtadhyayi(ii) Patanjali
(C) Mahabhasya(iii) Panini
(D) Tantraloka(iv) Dandin

Choose the correct option from those given below:

ABCD
(a)(iv)(ii)(iii)(i)
(b)(iv)(iii)(ii)(i)
(c)(iii)(ii)(i)(iv)
(d)(iii)(i)(ii)(iv)
Correct Answer: (b)
Solution:

Kavyadarsa is the earliest surviving systematic treatise of poetics in Sanskrit composed by Dandin. It is divided in 3 parichheds (parts).
Ashtadhyayi is ancient grammatical text written by Panini in Sanskrit. It contains eight chapters each divided in four parts.
Mahabhasya is attributed to Patanjali is a commentary on selected rules of Sanskrit Grammar from Panini's treatise as well as Katyayana's Varttika an elaboration of Panini's grammar. It is dated to the second century B.C.Е. Tantraloka "Light on tantra" is the master work of Abhinavgupta who was the most revered Kashmir Shaivism master on Tantra. A treasure text containing the synthesis of 64 meniseus Agamas and all the schools of tantra.

9. Match List-I with List-II :

List-I (Principality Kingdom)List-II (Geographical limits)
(A) Avanti(i) Malwa region of Central India
(B) Gandhara(ii) Modern Peshawar and Rawalpindi Districts and the Kashmir valley
(C) Chedi(iii) Eastern part of Bundelkhand in Central India
(D) Vajji(iv) North of the Ganga up to the Nepal hills

Choose the correct option from those given below:

ABCD
(a)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
(b)(ii)(iii)(iv)(i)
(c)(iii)(ii)(i)(iv)
(d)(i)(ii)(iv)(iii)
Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:

Avanti Mahajanapada was extended in Malwa region of central India. It was divided in two parts north Avanti capital-Ujjayini. South Avanti capital-Mahismati.
Extension of gandhara was in western part of Pakistan and Afganistan. Its capital was Taxila (Now Rawal Pindi) Chedi was extended in Bundelkhand area. It's capital was Shaktimati.
Vajji located North of the Ganga up to Nepal Hills with capital Videha.

10. About Rajasekhara, which of the following 12. statements is correct?

Correct Answer: (b) He was a court poet (c. 9ᵗʰ-10ᵗʰ century CE) of the Pratihara rulers-Mahendrapala and Mahipala.
Solution:

(He was a court poet of pratihara rulers Mahendrapal and Mahipal. Rajashekhar was an eminent Sanskrit poet, dramatist and critic he was the court poet of Gurjara Pratiharas.
Rajashekhar wrote the Kavyamimamsa (A practical guide for poets that explains the elements and composition of good poem.
He is most noted for the Karpuramanjari a play written in Saurseni Prakrit. Rajashekhar wrote the play to please his wife Avantisundari a woman of taste & accomplishment.