20 Most Repeated History MCQs in SSC Exams (Part - 05)

  📝 Are you preparing for SSC CGL, CHSL, MTS, or GD exams? In this post, we’ve compiled 20 most important History PYQs (Previous Year Questions) asked in various SSC exams from 2017 to 2024 . These questions are topic-wise, exam-tested, and come with correct answers. Practice daily to strengthen your General Awareness section and boost your score!

📚 SSC GK PYQs – History (Topic-wise MCQs)

👉 Includes questions from SSC CGL, CHSL, GD, MTS (2017 - 2024)👈 

🧠 History PYQs – Set 5 (20 Questions)

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1. Who was the founder of the Maurya Dynasty?

a) Ashoka

b) Chandragupta Maurya

c) Bindusara

d) Bimbisara

✅ Answer: b) Chandragupta Maurya

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2. Who was the founder of the Mughal Empire in India?

a) Akbar

b) Babur

c) Humayun

d) Sher Shah Suri

✅ Answer: b) Babur

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3. Who was the first woman ruler of India?

a) Rani Durgavati

b) Razia Sultana

c) Rani Laxmi Bai

d) Ahilyabai Holkar

✅ Answer: b) Razia Sultana

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4. Which ruler started the Din-i-Ilahi religion?

a) Akbar

b) Aurangzeb

c) Jahangir

d) Shah Jahan

✅ Answer: a) Akbar

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5. The slogan “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it” was given by —

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

b) Lala Lajpat Rai

c) Mahatma Gandhi

d) Bhagat Singh

✅ Answer: a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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6. Who was the founder of the Gupta Dynasty?

a) Chandragupta I

b) Samudragupta

c) Chandragupta II

d) Skandagupta

✅ Answer: a) Chandragupta I

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7. When did the Revolt of 1857 start?

a) 1856

b) 1857

c) 1858

d) 1861

✅ Answer: b) 1857

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8. Who led the Revolt of 1857 in Delhi?

a) Tantia Tope

b) Bahadur Shah Zafar

c) Nana Sahib

d) Rani Laxmi Bai

✅ Answer: b) Bahadur Shah Zafar

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9. Who built the Red Fort in Delhi?

a) Akbar

b) Shah Jahan

c) Jahangir

d) Aurangzeb

✅ Answer: b) Shah Jahan

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10. Who introduced the Doctrine of Lapse policy?

a) Lord Canning

b) Lord Dalhousie

c) Lord Wellesley

d) Lord Cornwallis

✅ Answer: b) Lord Dalhousie

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11. When was the Indian National Congress founded?

a) 1885

b) 1880

c) 1890

d) 1900

✅ Answer: a) 1885

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12. Who was known as the “Iron Man of India”?

a) Bhagat Singh

b) Vallabhbhai Patel

c) Subhas Chandra Bose

d) Rajendra Prasad

✅ Answer: b) Vallabhbhai Patel

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13. Who among the following founded the Arya Samaj?

a) Swami Vivekananda

b) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

✅ Answer: b) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

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14. The battle of Plassey was fought in —

a) 1757

b) 1764

c) 1857

d) 1773

✅ Answer: a) 1757

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15. Who was the last Governor-General of independent India?

a) Lord Mountbatten

b) Rajagopalachari

c) Warren Hastings

d) Lord Canning

✅ Answer: b) Rajagopalachari

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16. Who was the founder of the Indian National Army (INA)?

a) Subhas Chandra Bose

b) Rash Behari Bose

c) Bhagat Singh

d) Sardar Patel

✅ Answer: b) Rash Behari Bose

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17. Which Viceroy introduced the Partition of Bengal (1905)?

a) Lord Curzon

b) Lord Ripon

c) Lord Lytton

d) Lord Hardinge

✅ Answer: a) Lord Curzon

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18. Who among the following started the Home Rule Movement in India?

a) Annie Besant

b) Mahatma Gandhi

c) Jawaharlal Nehru

d) Sardar Patel

✅ Answer: a) Annie Besant

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19. Who was the founder of the Mauryan Empire’s capital Pataliputra?

a) Bimbisara

b) Udayin

c) Ashoka

d) Chandragupta Maurya

✅ Answer: b) Udayin

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20. The Simon Commission came to India in —

a) 1927

b) 1928

c) 1930

d) 1931

✅ Answer: a) 1927

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