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.