Practice Questions

1. Who wrote the Rajatarangini?
2. Which site shows dogs buried with masters?
3. Who founded the Karkota dynasty?
4. Which king built the Martand Sun Temple?
5. Who was the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir?
6. Who is called Budshah?
7. Who was the last Chak ruler?
8. When was Kashmir annexed by Akbar?
9. Which battle in 1819 gave Kashmir to the Sikhs?
10. What was the price in the Treaty of Amritsar?
11. Who conquered Ladakh in 1834?
12. When was the State Subject law first notified?
13. What happened on 13 July 1931?
14. When did the Muslim Conference become the National Conference?
15. What date was the Instrument of Accession signed?
16. Which Article of the UN Charter did India use in 1948?
17. In which year did Sheikh Abdullah die?
18. When was the Reorganisation Act effective?
19. Who became CM in October 2024?
20. Which Chinese pilgrim visited Kashmir about 631 CE?
21. Who is called the Samudragupta of Kashmir?
22. Which place was Lalitaditya's capital?
23. Who was Avantivarman's engineer?
24. Who founded the Gupta Kula in Kashmir (948)?
25. Who is called the Catherine of Kashmir?
26. Which two foreign adventurers came in Suhadeva's reign?
27. What was the first mosque built in Kashmir by Rinchana?
28. Who is called the Lalitaditya of medieval Kashmir?
29. What was Zain-ul-Abidin's pen name?
30. What share of the crop was land revenue under Shams-ud-Din? And under Zain-ul-Abidin?
31. Who built the Amira Kadal?
32. Who was the first Afghan governor of Kashmir?
33. Which Sikh governor was called "Colonel Sahib"?
34. Who wrote the Gulabnama?
35. When and where was Gulab Singh's Raj Tilak done?
36. Who introduced the Dogri script (by tradition)?
37. Which town did Gulab Singh found, called "Chota Kashi"?
38. Which press, the first in the State, did Ranbir Singh found?
39. During whose reign were houseboats first built?
40. Who was the first Chief Justice of the J&K High Court?
41. How many members did the Praja Sabha (1934) have, and how many were elected?
42. Which governor ordered firing on 13 July 1931?
43. When was the Quit Kashmir movement announced?
44. Who was the first Mughal governor of Kashmir?
45. Who was the worst governor under Jahangir?
46. Who built the Saif Kadal?
47. Which governor abolished the jizya and built the Hari Parbat wall?
48. Which Chak ruler died in Bihar in 1592?
49. Which Kushana king founded Kanispora?
50. Which Neolithic site shows menhirs along with Burzahom?

Answers

1. Kalhana (1148 to 1149 CE).
2. Burzahom.
3. Durlabhavardhana (625 CE).
4. Lalitaditya Muktapida.
5. Rinchana (Sadr-ud-Din).
6. Zain-ul-Abidin.
7. Yaqub Shah Chak.
8. 1586.
9. Battle of Shopian.
10. 75 lakh Nanakshahi rupees.
11. Zorawar Singh.
12. 1927 (Hari Singh).
13. Central Jail firing, 22 killed.
14. 11 June 1939.
15. 26 October 1947.
16. Article 35 (Chapter VI).
17. 1982 (8 September).
18. 31 October 2019.
19. Omar Abdullah (sworn in 16 October 2024).
20. Hiuen Tsang.
21. Lalitaditya Muktapida.
22. Parihaspur (Baramulla district).
23. Suyya.
24. Parvagupta.
25. Didda.
26. Shah Mir (from Swat) and Rinchana (from Tibet/Ladakh).
27. Bud Masjid.
28. Shihab-ud-Din.
29. Qutb.
30. One-sixth (Shams-ud-Din); one-third (Zain-ul-Abidin).
31. Amir Khan Jawansher.
32. Abdullah Khan Ishaq Aqasi.
33. Mian Singh.
34. Diwan Kirpa Ram.
35. 16 January 1822, Akhnoor.
36. Shakti Karan (Raja Shastri).
37. Purmandal.
38. Vidya Vilas Press.
39. Maharaja Pratap Singh.
40. Lala Kanwar Sain.
41. 75 members, 33 elected.
42. Raizada Trilok Chand.
43. 15 May 1946.
44. Qasim Khan (Mir Bahr).
45. Itqad Khan.
46. Saif Khan, governor under Aurangzeb.
47. Mirza Yusuf Khan Rizvi.
48. Yusuf Shah Chak.
49. Kanishka.
50. Gufkral.

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