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Under Bahamani kingdom, the king was very powerful and the administration was looked after ______.

  1. Soldiers

  2. Wazirs

  3. Priests

  4. Nobles


Correct Option: B

Bahamani kingdom was established in ____________ A.D.

  1. 1336

  2. 1340

  3. 1347

  4. 1437


Correct Option: C

The buildings of the Bahamani Sultans are in __________ style.

  1. Islamic

  2. Hindu

  3. Dravidian

  4. Indo-Sarcenic


Correct Option: D

To promote the study of Islam and law __________ established a madrasa at Bidar.

  1. Ibrahim Adil Shah

  2. Mohammad Gawan

  3. Bahman Shah

  4. Mohammed Shah


Correct Option: B

What were the underlying principles of the 1834 Poor Law Act?

  1. The poor should be treated the same no matter where they lived.

  2. The life in the workhouse should be made harder than the life of the worst-off labourer living outside it, so that poor would only go into the workhouse as the last resort.

  3. Both A and B

  4. Neither A nor B


Correct Option: C

What were watchmen nicknamed in England in the eighteenth century?

  1. Gimmies

  2. Ginnie

  3. Charleys

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: C

Many nineteenth-century reformers wanted improvements in prisons. They campaigned for ____________.

  1. Clean drinking water

  2. Clean living conditions

  3. A doctor in each prison

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

What was the important reason behind the development of a modern police force in England?

  1. Fear of terrorism

  2. Fear of protest

  3. Fear of epidemics

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

Throughout the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, people protested for a variety of reasons such as:

  1. Some were hungry and protested for food

  2. Some disliked the industrial change, which they thought would threaten their jobs

  3. Some wanted political power

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

What was the demand of several thousand people gathered in St. Peter's square in Manchester to protest?

  1. Right to vote in parliamentary elections

  2. End of famine

  3. Both A and B

  4. Only 1


Correct Option: C