PSC HISTORY QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERES   HISTORY OF KERALA

01. Birth place of Ezhuthachan is at : Thunchanparambu in Tirur (Malappuram District)

02. Dutch East India Company was established in : A.D. 1592

03. Father of Malayalm Language : Ezhuthachan

04. Fifth & Last visit of Gandhiji was in : January 13, 1937

05. First Book in Malayalam is : Samkshepa Vedartham

06. First Malayalam Dictionery was compiled by : Dr.Herman Gundart from Germany

07. First Mamankom was held in : A.D. 829

08. First Pazhassi Revolution was held in : A.D. 1793

09. How many times Gandhiji visited Kerala : Five Times

10. Huang Tsang a Chinese Traveler visited Kerala in : A.D. 630

11. Italiam Traveller Marco Polo visited Kerala in : A.D. 1292

12. Jews migrated to Kerala in :A.D. 68

13. Kollam Era began in : A.D. 825, August 15th

14. Kollam Era is also Known as : Malayalam Era

15. Kundara Proclamation was made by Veluthampi in the year : A.D. 1809

16. Land Revenue was introduced in Kochi in the Year : A.D. 1761

PSC KERALA HISTORY-MYASORE & TRAVANCORE

Biographer of tippu Mgs narayanan called tippu as Irfan habib Gulam muhammed Nehru Tarachand John wye Ibrahim kunju N m nambootiri manvikraman tricalore tukradar cheta kudungan chira farookabad farookabad      in 1764 british capital in kerala trangannur sword of tippu sulthan madanna husband men kacheri hyder ali rise of muslim land lordism father of modern travancore nagamayya venad thampi pathivukanakku taluk trippadithanam chempakaraman variyola records kuri orris st angelo perumal choukies ettarayogam arat festival dharma raja ayyappan raja keshavadas thalakkal chandu ariyittu vazhcha

Kirmani and muhibul hassan Comet Editor of confronting colonialism Son of tippu Discovery of india History of freedom movement First collector of malabar Wrote Mysore kerala relations Sammotiri charithrathinte kaanapurangal Suicide zamorin Old name of tirurangadi Revenue collector A new batalian formed by hyder ali Old name of ramanattukara New capital of tipu sulthan Meaning land of umar Building of travancore line tellicherry old name of kodungallore written by bagvan kidhoy first revenue officer of malabar new tax collectors a desham having 12 amsham introduced land tax in malabar during mysorean period marthanda varma district gazatteer meaning land of vel chieftens a man who is having some authority budget system introduced by marthanda varma called as mandapathum vathukkal on 3rd jan 1750 a knighthood given to thos who serves coutry without curruption settlement register privilage given by land owner to the tenent for the possession of land mortagage of land first fort of british means the messenger of god customes duty exicutive council of sri pathmanabha temple conducted by marthanda varma karthika tirunal ramavarma first CM of tranvancore first dalava of travancore a kurichya leader coronation cerimony of zamorine

PSC KERALA HISTORY(DUTCH PERIOD)

KERALA HISTORY(DUTCH PERIOD)

SOME BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Memmoirs of van rhied      =( man behind horthus malabaricus)

Kerala araam                    = horthus malabaricus

Garden of kerala                        = horthus malabaricus

Cantle wischer                  =letters from malabar

W h moorland                  =dutch sources in indian history

Kv kannan                       =a survey of the rise of dutch in malabar

Kp ibrahim kunju             =marthanda varma and his times

Ck kareem                      =kerala under hyder ali

Kn ganesh                       =socio-economic history of venad

SOME OTHER POINTS

Dutch                            =first protestant who came to kerala

Purakkad raja               =first ruler made allaince with dutch

cochin                          =first city captured by dutch

battle of kolachal          =1741

vqn spyle                      =last captain of cochin fort

mahi                            =derived from the name MAHI DE LA BOURNNIOS

kashmir                       =land of pandits

gundart                        =malayala rajyam

batt                             =migrant nambuthiris

etti achuthan                =used malayalm script in hortus malabaricus

vella namboothiri         =wrote vellayude charithram

ezhavar                       =came from shrilanka

PSC KERALA HISTORY OBJECTIVE

KERALA HISTORY (PORTUGUESE PERIOD)

NAME OF BOOKS & AUTHORS

K m panikkar                            =Malabar and portuguese

=Foundations of modern kerala

=History of kerala

P k k menon                           =Medieval kerala history

K v krishna ayyar                     =the zamorins of calicut

V kunjali                                    =origins of kunjalis

Shaik zainuddin                      =Tuhfatul mujaahideen

William logan                          =Malabar manual

K s mathew and kkn kurupp =the saga of kunjalis

Sanjay subrahmanyan          =The portuguese enter in asia

Aswin das gupta                     =Maritine history of india

Ibrahim kunju                         =studies in medieval kerala history

O k nambyar                           =kunjalis the admirals of calicut

SOME OTHER NOTES

Cosmology                 =maritine study

Pope of orient           =prester john(king of abyssenia

Polyglot                      =having an idea about many languages

Hippalus                    =discoverd monsoon wind

Convilham                 =the first portuguese who reached kerala by foot

Ibn majid                   =arabian who helped vascoda gama during his voyage to calicut

Corrio                        =portuguese geographer

Xerafines                  =customes duty

Viceroy                      =royal representative of mother country to the colonies

Fort manual             =first european fort built by AL BUQUARQ at cochi in 1503

Francisco almeda   =first portuguese viceroy to india who built st.angelo fort at kannur

Battle of chol           =in 1508 between egypt,gujarath,zamorin and portuguese

Nuno de kunho      =built fort at chaliyam

Baramis                   =tree merchants of calicut

ചരിത്ര അദ്യാപകരുടെ ഒഴിവിലേക്ക് കേരള പി എസ് സീ അപേക്ഷ

ഹയര്‍ സെക്കണ്ടറി വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ വകുപ്പില്‍ ചരിത്ര  അദ്യാപകരുടെ ഒഴിവിലേക്ക് കേരള പി എസ് സീ   അപേക്ഷ  ക്ഷണിച്ച   വിവരം അറിഞ്ഞ്ഹിരിക്കുമല്ലോ .പ്രസ്തുത പരീക്ഷക്ക് ഇന്ത്യാ ചരിത്രത്തില്‍ നിന്നും , കേരള ചരിത്രത്തില്‍ നിന്നും ,ലോക  ചരിത്രത്തില്‍ നിന്നും , ഹിസ്റൊരിയോഗ്രഫിയില്‍ നിന്നും ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ ചോദിക്കുക പതിവാണ്.ആയതിനാല്‍ ഹിസ്റൊബ്ലോഗ് നിങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് വേണ്ടി പ്രസ്തുത പരീക്ഷയുമായി ബന്തപ്പെട്ട ചില   ചോദ്യങ്ങളും ഉത്തരങ്ങളും നിങ്ങളുമായി പങ്കുവെക്കുന്നു..

PSC HISTORY OBJECTIVE

Question: Everyone knows 'The Taj Mahal'. It was built by the Emperor Shah Jahan, but for whom?

1) Jahani Mahal
2) Farida Mahal
3) Mumtaz Mahal
4) Toba Begum

Question: Under which Indian emperor's reign was the Jama Masjid in Delhi built?

1) Jehangir
2) Shah Jahan
3) Akbar
4) Aurangzeb

Question: Which Muslim saint lived in the place where Fatehpur Sikri was built?

1) Ali Malik
2) Salim Chisti Sheikh
3) Jainulabdeen Shah Badar
4) Muhammed Bin Tughlaq

Question: Name the Rajput princess whom Akbar married.

1) Noor Jehan
2) Jodha Bai
3) Mumtaz Mahal
4) Jija Bai

Question: Late Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia was the Maharani of

1) Gwalior
2) Bhopal
3) Surat
4) Jaipur

Question: Which was the largest and richest among the princely states of pre-Independence period?

1) Mysore
2) Gwalior
3) Jaipur
4) Hyderabad

Question: 'Ramtanu' was the original name of

1) Birbal
2) Tansen
3) Kabir
4) Tulsidas

PSC HISTORY QUESTIONS

PSC HISTORY QUESTIONS
Question: Known as the "philosopher king", Asoka was the emperer of the Maurya empire as of 268 BC. What was his relationship to Chandragupta, the original founder of the empire?

1) Grandson
2) Nephew
3) Son
4) Son-in-law

Question: Which of these facts about Chandragupta is true?

1) He called his people children.
2) He converted to Buddhism and rejected war.
3) He trained women to protect his palace.
4) He had stone pillars set up through India with Buddhist inscriptions on them.

PSC HISTORY QUESTIONS

PSC HISTORY QUESTIONS
Question: Which dynasty was ruling in Delhi and was defeated by Babur when he invaded India?

1) Slave dynasty
2) Tughlaq dynasty
3) Khilji dynasty
4) Lodhi dynasty

Question: Samudragupta, one of India's greatest empire builders, of the Gupta period, his son and father both had the same name. What was it?

1) Chandragupta
2) Maurya
3) Asoka
4) Skandagupta

Question: Which Pallava ruler founded the city of Mahabalipuram and built several temples there?

1) Narasimhavarman
2) Simhavishnu Avanisimha
3) Siva-Skandavaram
4) Mahendra Vaarman I

PSC HISTORY QUESTIONS

PSC HISTORY QUESTIONS
Question: When Tipu Sultan was killed?

1) May 10, 1799
2) May 12, 1799
3) May 5, 1799
4) May 9, 1799

Question: The final act of betrayal was when Tipu went himself to fight the British soldiers that were able to enter the fort courtyard. One of the traitors then ordered the inner doors to be shut. Who was this traitor?

1) Badaruddin
2) Zaman
3) Purnia
4) Mir Sadiq

PSC HSST HISTORY OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS & ANSWERES

PSC HSST HISTORY OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS & ANSWERES

 1. Which of the following was the birth place of Guru Nanak ?
(a) Anandpur
(b) Amritsar
(c) Talwandi
(d) Nanded

2. During the Indus Valley Civilization period, the dominant number used for weights and measures was ?
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 12
(d) 16

3. The Mughal emperor at the time of Ahmed Shah Abduali’s invasion of India was ?
(a)Bahadur Shahl
(b) Shah Alam I
(c)Bahadur Shah II
(d) Shah Alam II

4. Sher Shah died while he was fighting in
(a)Panipat
(b) Kalinga
(c)Kalinjar
(d) None of these

5. Archaeological material relating to the period of Sangam literature has been unearthed at ?
(a) Madurai
(b) Brahmagiri
(c) Thanjavur
(d) Arikkamedu

HISTORY RESOURCES-KOUDILYA

Kautilya
from the arthashastra, c. 250 bce

Book I, Chapter 7, The Life of a Holy King
Hence by overthrowing the aggregate of the six enemies [lust, anger, greed, vanity, haughtiness, and overjoy], he shall restrain the organs of sense; acquire wisdom by keeping company with the aged; see through his spies; establish safety and security by being ever active; maintain his subjects in the observance of their respective duties by exercising authority; keep up his personal discipline by receiving lessons in the sciences; and endear himself to the people by bringing them in contact with wealth and doing good to them. Thus, with his organs of sense under control, he shall keep away from hurting the women and property of others; avoid not only lustfulness, even in dream, but also falsehood, haughtiness, and evil proclivities; and keep away from unrighteous and uneconomical transactions.
Not violating righteousness and economy, he shall enjoy his desires. He shall never be devoid of happiness. He may enjoy in an equal degree the three pursuits of life: charity, wealth, and desire, which are inter-dependent on each other. Any one of these three, when enjoyed to an excess, hurts not only the other two, but also itself.

HISTORY RESOURCES-GREEKS ON INDIA

GREEK REPORTS OF INDIA & ARYAVARTA

Herodotus: from The History of the Persian Wars, c.430 BCE
III.98: The way in which the Indians get the plentiful supply of gold which enables them to furnish year by year so vast an amount of gold-dust to the kind is the following: Eastward of India lies a tract which is entirely sand. Indeed of all the inhabitants of Asia, concerning whom anything certain is known, the Indians dwell the nearest to the east, and the rising of the sun. Beyond them the whole country is desert on account of the sand. The tribes of Indians are numerous, and do not all speak the same language---some are wandering tribes, others not. They who dwell in the marshes along the river live on raw fish, which they take in boats made of reeds, each formed out of a single joint. These Indians wear a dress of sedge, which they cut in the river and bruise; afterwards they weave it into mats, and wear it as we wear a breast-plate.

HISTORY RESOURCES-STRABO

Strabo: Geography: Book XV: On India

1. The parts still left of Asia are those outside the Taurus except Cilicia and Pamphylia and Lycia, I mean the parts extending from India as far as the Nile and lying between the Taurus and the outer sea on the south. After Asia one comes to Libya, which I shall describe later, but I must now begin with India, for it is the first and largest country that lies out towards the east.
2. But it is necessary for us to hear accounts of this country with indulgence, for not only is it farthest away from us, but not many of our people have seen it; and even those who have seen it, have seen only parts of it, and the greater part of what they say is from hearsay; and even what they saw they learned on a hasty passage with an army through the country. Wherefore they do not give out the same accounts of the same things, even though they have written these accounts as though their statements had been carefully confirmed. And some of them were both on the same expedition together and made their sojourns together, like those who helped Alexander to subdue Asia; yet they all frequently contradict one another. But if the differ thus about what was seen, what must we think of what they report from hearsay?

HISTORY RESOURCES-PLINY

Pliny: Natural History 6.96-111. (On India)

XXVI [96] But before we go on to a detailed account of these countries, it is suitable to indicate the facts reported by Onesicritus after sailing with the fleet of Alexander round from India to the interior of Farsistan, and quite recently related in detail by Juba, and then to state the sea-route that has been ascertained in recent times and is followed at the present day.

HISTORY RESOURCES-WILLIAM BENTINCK

William Bentinck 
On Ritual Murder in India, 1829

India was progressively occupied by the British, through the agency of the East India Company, throughout the 18th century. The company was directed by the government. The British, unlike earlier colonizers in the Americas, decided to practice religious toleration for their new Islamic and Hindu subjects.
This lead to a conflict: some Indian religious customs outraged the British - for instance neonatal infantacide. But the most contentious issue was sati (or suttee), the custom whereby widows would burn themselves on their husband's funeral pyre. By the 1820s the East India Company, which had not intervened, had come to the conclusion that sati was not only repulsive but was not necessarily voluntary. There were reports of women being forced to burn themselves, or of being tied to the pyres. William Bentinck, Governor-General of the company from 1828, her addresses the issue of whether to intervene.

HISTORY RESOURCES

Dadabhai Naoroji
The Benefits of British Rule, 1871

The Benefits of British Rule for India
In the Cause of Humanity: Abolition of suttee and infanticide. Destruction of Dacoits, Thugs, Pindarees, and other such pests of Indian society. Allowing remarriage of Hindu widows, and charitable aid in time of famine. Glorious work all this, of which any nation may well be proud, and such as has not fallen to the lot of any people in the history of mankind.
In the Cause of Civilization: Education, both male and female. Though yet only partial, an inestimable blessing as far as it has gone, and leading gradually to the destruction of superstition, and many moral and social evils. Resuscitation of India's own noble literature, modified and refined by the enlightenment of the West.
Politically: Peace and order. Freedom of speech and liberty of the press. Higher political knowledge and aspirations. Improvement of government in the native states. Security of life and property

history resources-Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
  On Empire and Education

 The first selection a speech on the India bill of 1833 and expresses his view of the achievements and goals of the British Empire in the East. Between 1834 and 1838 he lived in Calcutta and served on the British "Supreme Council for India". His "Minute on Education, " from which the second selection below comes, touches on the relation of Western and Indian civilizations.

Education and the English Empire in India
I feel that, for the good of India itself, the admission of natives to high office must be effected by slow degrees. But that, when the fulness of time is come, when the interest of India requires the change, we ought to refuse to make that change lest we should endanger our own power, this is a doctrine of which I cannot think without indignation. Governments, like men, may buy existence too dear