India GK

61. Which of the following types of soil are mostly confined to river basins and coastal plains of India? A. […]

51. The percentage of India’s total population employed in agriculture is nearly A.     40%    B.     50% C.   

56. Which of the following crops is regarded as a plantation crop? A. Coconut B. Cotton C. Sugarcane D. Rice

51. The percentage of India’s total population employed in agriculture is nearly A.     40%    B.     50% C.   

46. Which of the following groups of rivers have their source of origin in Tibet? A.     Brahmaputra, Ganges and

41. The outer Himalayas lie between A.     the lease Himalayas and the Indo Gangetic plain B.     the foot

41. The outer Himalayas lie between A.     the lease Himalayas and the Indo Gangetic plain B.     the foot

36. The Shimla Convention is an agreement that sets A.     Shimla as a tourist spot B.     Shimla as

31. Which of the following groups of rivers originate from the Himachal mountains? A.     Beas, Ravi and Chenab B.

21. The year ____ is called a Great Divide in the demographic history of India. A.     1901    B.   

26. The most plausible explanation for the location of the Thar desert in western India is A. the obstruction caused

21. The year ____ is called a Great Divide in the demographic history of India. A.     1901    B.   

16. What is the predominant type of Indian agriculture? A.     Commercial agriculture B.     Extensive agriculture C.     plantation

Exercise Section 1 “Love is like a war, Easy to begin Hard to end.” – (Proverb) 11. The percentage of

1. The Paithan (Jayakwadi) Hydro-electric project, completed with the help of Japan, is on the river A.     Ganga    B.

6. The principal copper deposits of India lie in which of the following places? A. Hazaribag and Singbhum of Bihar

66. The Venetian traveler who travelled with his wife and reached Vijayanagar around 1420 was A.     Athanasius Nikitin B.

56. Though Ashoka had many sons, the inscriptions mentioned only one who is not mentioned in any other source. He

61. Under the Guptas in eastern India, there was probably an intermediate level of administration between vishayas (districts) and villages.

56. Though Ashoka had many sons, the inscriptions mentioned only one who is not mentioned in any other source. He

51. The Vedic deity Indra was the Goddess of A.     wind B.     eternity C.     rain and thunder

46. The text of the document called Mahzar, by which Akbar assumed the role of supreme arbiter in the matters

41. Visakhadatta sketches the event after the death of Samudragupta in his work A.     Mudrarakasam B.     Devi Chand

36. There was a sharp class division at Harappa and Mohen-jodaro. This is clear from the A.     Indus seals

26. The use of spinning wheel (Charkha) became common during the A.     9th Century AD B.     10th Century