UGC NTA NET/JRF EXAM, Dec 2020/June 2021 (HISTORY) (Shift-I)

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following passage and answer the question given below:

Ancient India has bequeathed to us a vast treasury of texts which represent the intellectual and literary activities of more than two thousand years and cover a wide fields. The earliest literary work, the Samhita of the Rigveda, is at least three thousand years old and may be even considerably older.

A continuous stream of literature flowing since that remote age, widening in course of centuries and embracing almost all fields of human endeavour excepting political activity throws a light on the civilization of India such as we do not meet with in cases of other ancient cultures. This mass of literature deal with philosophy and religion, including ethics, ritual and ceremonial; cosmogony, cosmology,geography, astronomy and the allied sciences; political and economic doctrines and practices;and in a minor way, with almost all branches of secular life.

It includes, besides a mass of religious texts, purely literary works such as epics, lyrics, kavyas (poems), dramas and prose romances, as well as biographies and folk tales.This literature is as bulky in volume as it isvaried in its contents. Although it does not helpus very much in reconstructing the political history of ancient India, it throws a flood oflight on an enables us to trace the various stages in the development of culture and civilization in ancient India, such as is not possible in the case of ancient Egypt, Western Asia and China and even Greece and Rome.

The most popular themes of ancient Indiandramas are based on the Ramayana,Mahabharata, courtly love and folk tales.Which of the following dramas, considered to be written by Bhasa, has taken its plot from the Ramayana?

Correct Answer: (a) Abhisheka
Solution:

Abhisheka, drama written by Bhasa has taken its plot from Ramayana.

92. The Indian Philosoper Vedanta Desika wrote aSandesa Kavya (a form of lyric poem). named:

Correct Answer: (c) Hamsa-Sandesa
Solution:

The Indian Philosoper Vedanta Desika wrote a Sandesa Kavya (a form of lyric poem) named Hamsa Sandesa.
• Pavanduta is composed by Dhoyin a poet at the courtof Sena King Lakshamana Sen.

93. Which of the following historical works authored by Bilhana?

(A) Vikramankadeva - Charita
(B) Bhuvanabhyudaya
(C) Kavi - rahasya
(D) Karnasundari
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) (A) and (D) only
Solution:

Vikramankadeva - Charita and Karnasundari are historical works authored by Bilhana.
• Bhuvanabhyudaya was composed by Shankukas.
• Kavi - rahasya was composed by Halayudh.

94. Which of the following pairs of the Brahmanas and Vedic Samhitas is NOT correctly matched?

Correct Answer: (c) Kausitaki Brahmana - Yajurveda Samhita
Solution:

Option (3) is not correctly matched because Kausitaki Brahmana is associated with Rigveda Samhita not by Yajurveda Samhita.

95. The seventh Mandala of the Rigveda ascribed to the family of:

Correct Answer: (c) Vasishtha
Solution:

The seventh Mandala of the Rigveda is ascribed to the family of vashishtha. •10th mandala of Rigveda added in later period.

96. Read the following passage and answer the question given below

The Indian National Congress, being a movement and not just a party, included within its fold, individuals and groups which subscribed to widely divergent political and ideological perspectives. It was the mainstream organization but not the only stream.

Obviously, the non-Congress movements were never seen as parallel streams, as some have maintained. Though they were outside the Congress, most of them were not really separate from it and at no stage they became alternatives to the Congress. The only ones which may be said to have formed of an alternative stream of politics were the communal and casteist movements which were not national or anti-imperialist.

Several Satyagraha campaigns - apart from innumerable mass agitational campaigns - were waged between 1919 and 1942. The movement in its various forms and phases took modern politics to the people. It did not appeal to their pre-modern consciousness based on religion, caste and locality or loyalty to the traditional rulers. Though in some cases caste structure was used in villages to enforce discipline in a movement whose motivation and demands had nothing to do with caste.

The social and religious reform movements which developed during the 19th century as part of the defence against colonialization of Indian culture merged with the national movement. A a mass movement, while the Indian national movement was able to tap the diverse energies, talents and capacities of a large varieties of people to fight against the British rule, emphasis was also laid on the constructive programme.

Which among the following were parallel' but not alternative streams of agitation?

(A) The Ghadar movement
(B) The Civil Disobedience movement
(C) The Indian National Army
(D) The Royal Indian Navy Revolt
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) (A), (C) and (D) only
Solution:

The Ghadar movement, The Indian National Army and Royal Indian Navy Revolt were parallel but not alternative streams of agitation.

97. Which one of the following was a non-Congress movement?

Correct Answer: (d) Kisan Sabhas
Solution:

All India Depressed Classes Mission Society of India was a non-Congress movement.
• Vithal Ramji Shinde established the depressed classes mission of India to provide education to dalits in 1906.

98. Which kind of individuals were not associated with the Indian national movement?

Correct Answer: (a) Imperialists
Solution:

Imperialists were not associated with the Indian national movement. Imperialists supported British.

99. Which one of the following Satyagraha movement was not a part of the Indian National Congress programme?

Correct Answer: (c) Mahad Sweet Tank Satyagraha
Solution:

Mahad Sweet Tank Satyagraha movement was not a part of the Indian National Congress programme.

100. In which year women participated in the proceedings of the Indian National Congress?

Correct Answer: (b) 1889
Solution:

In 1889 women participated in the proceedings of the Indian National Congress.