1.
Which of the following
statements are correct about
Bahadur Shah, successor of
Aurangzeb?
1) He was very intolerant
towards Hindu chiefs and rajas.
2) He made peace with the tenth
Sikh Guru – Guru Gobind Singh.
Select the correct answer using
the codes below:
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2
2. Which of the following
statements is correct regarding
politics in Delhi court after death
of Aurangzeb in 1707?
1) Nobles became very powerful,
sometimes even more influential
than the Mughal Emperor
himself.
2) Marathas and Rajpoots were
selectively favoured by the
nobles.
3) Mughal Emperors became
puppets of their own nobles, who
in turn became the Kingmakers.
Select the correct answer using
the codes below:
a) 1 only
b) 1 and 3 only
c) 2 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
3. The famous Koh-i-nur /
Kohinoor diamond was taken
away from India in 18th century,
during invasion of Delhi by
a) Ahmad Shah Abdali
b) Nadir Shah
c) Nizam-ul-Mulk
d) Saadat Khan
4. Who was the Mughal Emperor
when Marathas were defeated
by Afghans led by Ahmad Shah
Abdali in 1761?
a) Akbar II
b) Shah Alam II
c) Muhammad Shah
d) Bahadur Shah Zafar
5. Question 5 Which of the
following were causes of
downfall of Mughal Empire?
1) Narrow religious policies of
Aurangzeb
2) Alliance with Rajpoots
3) Rise of Marathas
4) Infighting among nobles
Select the correct answer using
the codes below:
a) 1, 2 and 3 only
b) 1, 3 and 4 only
c) 2 and 3 only
d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
6. Who was the last Mughal
Emperor?
1. Babur
2. Tipu Sultan
3. Aurangzeb
4. Bahadur Shah II
7. The Mughal Empire declined
during ________.
1. First half of 17th century
2. First Half of 19th Century
3. First half of 18th Century
4. First half of 16th Century
8. Which of the following was not
one of the regional kingdoms
that emerged in 18th after
declining of Mughals
a) Bengal
b) Awadh
c) Kabul
d) Hyderabad
9. Which of the following Mughal
Emperor followed a policy of
religious intolerance?
1. Akbar
2. Aurangzeb
3. Shah Jahan
4. Bahadur Shah Zafar
10. Who among the following
Governor- Generals decided that
Bahadur Shah Zafar would be the
last Mughal emperor and after
his death none of the
descendants would be
recognized as a ruler?
1. Lord Dalhousie
2. William Bentinck
3. Lord Canning
4. Lord Cornwallis
11. The Great Mughals included
Babar, Humayun, Akbar,
Jahangir, Shahjahan and
Aurangzeb in that chronological
order. The Mughal emperors who
came to the throne after the
death of Aurangzeb are called
the Later Mughals. Arrange the
following four Later Mughals in
their chronological order.
a. Ahmad Shah
b. Bahadur Shah
c. Jahandar Shah
d. Mohammad Shah
1. Ahmad Shah, Bahadur Shah,
Jahandar Shah, Mohammad Shah
2. Bahadur Shah, Jahandar Shah,
Mohammad Shah, Ahmad Shah
3. Bahadur Shah, Mohammad
Shah, Jahandar Shah, Ahmad
Shah
4. Jahandar Shah, Mohammad
Shah, Bahadur Shah, Ahmad Shah
12. Who took away the peacock
throne built by Shahjahan, from
India?
1. Ahmad Shah Abdali
2. Zaman Shah
3. Nadir Shah
4. Shah Suja
13. Aurangzeb died in the year
A. 1760 B. 1764
C. 1707 D. 1700
14. Who called Muazzam as
Shahi-i- Bekhabar?
A. Kafi Khan
B. Zulfikar khan
C. Kam Baksh
D. Nur Jahan
15. Which of the following
Mughal ruler who tried to create
affinity between Sikh and
Maratha by granted the right to
collect Sardesh Mukhi of Deccan
but not Chauth to the Marathas?
A. Jahander Shah
B. Muazzam
C. Akbar
D. Farukhsiyar
16. Which Mughal Ruler’s gave
permission for collecting Chauth
and Sardesh Mukhi on Maratha
land to Peshwa Balaji
Vishwanath?
A. Farrukhsiyar
B. Rafi-ud-Darajat
C. Rafi-ud-Daula (D) He died of sickness due to too
much consumption of wine
D. Muhammed Shah
22. The Mughal Emperor at the
17. Who among the following
time of Nadir Shah’s attack was
Mughal Emperor became the first
pensioner of the East India (A) Ahmad Shah
Company?
(B) Alamgir II
A. Ahmed Shah
(C) Muhammad Shah
B. Akbar II
(D) Rafi-ud-Darajat
C. Bahadur Shah
23. A group of eunuchs and
D. Muhammed Shah ladies dominated in the
Government under
18. Which of the following
Mughal Emperors granted duty- (A) Muhammad Shah (1719-48)
free trading facilities to the
(B) Ahmad Shah (1748-54)
English in Bengal?
(C) Alamgir (1754-59)
(A) Akbar
(D) Shah Alam II (1759-1806)
(B) Jahangir
24. Which Mughal emperor is
(C) Bahadur Shah
known by the name of ‘Rangila’?
(D) Farrukh Siyar
(A) Farrukh Siyar
19. Who was the last Mughal
(B) Rafi-ud-Darajat
Emperor to sit on Mayur
Singhasan? (C) Muhammad Shah
(A) Shah Alam I (D) Rafi-ud-Daula
(B) Muhammad Shah 8. Which of the following Mughal
emperors was not allowed to
(C) Bahadur Shah
enter into Delhi by Wazir
(D) Jahandar Shah Ghaziuddin?
20. Who succeeded Aurangzeb (A) Alamgir-II
after his death in 1707 A.D.?
(B) Shah Alam-II
(A) Bahadur Shah-I
(C) Akbar-II
(B) Jahandar Shah
(D) Bahadur Shah-II
(C) Muhammad Shah
25. The last Mughal Emperor was
(D) Akbar-II Bahadur Shah. His father’s name
was
21. How did the Mughal Emperor
Jahandar Shah’s reign come to an (A) Akbar Shah-I
early end?
(B) Akbar Shah-II
(A) He was deposed by his Wazir
(C) Aurangzeb
(B) He died due to slip while
(D) Shah Jahan
climbing down steps
26. Who was last Mughal
(C) He was defeated by his
emperor of India?
nephew in a battle
(A) Aurangzeb 31. The title 'Raja' was conferred (3) 1743 (4) 1843
on Ram Mohun Roy by the
(B) Bahadur Shah Zafar 37. Which mughal emperor
Mughal emperor
issued a ferman granting The East
(C) Shah Alam
(A) Jahandar Shah India Company the right to trade
(D) Shah Jahan duty free?
(B) Mohammad Shah
27. Which one of the following (1) Akbar
(C) Akbar II
statements is not correct about
(2) Humayun
Bahadur Shah Zafar? (D) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(3) Aurangzeb
(A) He was an emperor without 32. Nadir Shah invaded India in
an empire the year (4) Shah Jahan

(B) Ibrahim Zauq and Asad Ullah
Khan Ghalib were his poetry
teachers
(C) Hasan Askari was his spiritual
guide
(A) 1738 A.D. 38. Under which treaty British
company got the Diwani right of
(B) 1739 A.D.
Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from
(C) 1740 A.D. Mughal ruler Shah Alam II?
(D) 1741 A.D. (1) Treaty of Awadh

(D) He received less than one
lakh rupees as pension from East
India Company
28. The privileges of free trade
granted to the English East India
Company were confirmed in
1717 by Emperor _________.
A. Bahadur Shah
B. Farrukh-Siyar
C. Muhammad Shah
D. Aurangzeb
29. Which Mughal emperor
granted Diwani to the English
East India Company?
(A) Bahadur shah II
(B) Shah Alam II
(C) Farrukh-Siyar
(D) Zehander Shah
30. The East India Company
secured the Diwani from
(A) Suja-ud-Daulah
(B) Aurangzeb
(C) Bahadur Shah I
(D) Shah Alam II
33. Who among the following
Mughal Kings had sent Raja Ram
Mohan Roy as his envoy to
London?
(a) Alamgir II
(b) Shah Alam II
(c) Akbar II
(d) Bahadur Shah II
34. Who was the ruler of Delhi
during the battle of Buxar?
(a) Aurangzeb
(b) Shah Alam I
(c) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(d) Shah Alam II
35. The famous Peacock Throne
of Shah Jahan was taken away in
1739 by
(1) Afghan invader Ahmed Shah
Abdali
(2) Persian invader Nadir Shah
(3) Mongol invader Chengiz Khan
(4) British East India Company
36. Bahadur Shah (First) was born
in the year _____.
(1) 1543 (2) 1643
(2) Treaty of Alinagar
(3) Treaty of Calcutta
(4) Treaty of Allahabad
39. Who among the following
was bestowed with the title of
‘Sahebe- Alam Bahadur’ by
Bahadur Shah during the uprising
of 1857?
(1) Nana Sahib
(2) Birjis Qadr
(3) Bakht Khan
(4) Tantia Tope
40. Mughal presence in the Red
Ford ceased with the fall of
(1) Aurangzeb
(2) Muhammad Shah
(3) Shah Alam
(4) Bahadur Shah ‘Zafar’
41. Who among the following
Mughal emperors, brought about
the fall of Sayyid Brothers?
(1) Bahadur Shah I
(2) Rafi-ud-daulah
(3) Shah Jahan II
(4) Muhammad Shah
42. Name the king who invaded
Delhi and plundered the
Kohinoor Diamond.
(1) Nadir Shah
(2) Firuz Shah
(3) Mohammed Shah
(4) Mohammed Ghori
43. Bahadur Shah was the
(1) last ruler of the Lodis
(2) successor of Shar Shah Suri
(3) last Mughal ruler
(4) successor of the Maratha
ruler Shivaji
(3) 19 August 1765
(4) 21 August 1765
47. The last Mughal emperor
Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to
________ after the 1857 war of
independence.
(1) London
(2) Kathmandu
(3) Kabul
(4) Rangoon
48. Which of the following were
the causes for the rapid
dissolution of the Mughal
empire?

44. The last Mughal Emperor was 1. Degeneration of the Mughal

Bhahadur Shah. His father’s nobility
name was
2. The absence of the Law of
(1) Akbar Shah I Succession

(2) Akbar Shah II 3. Foreign invasion

(3) Aurangzeb Select the correct answer from

the codes given below:
(4) Shahjehan
(a) 2 and 3 only
45. Arrange the following into
chronological order and select (b) 1 and 3 only
the correct answer from the
(c) 3 only
codes given below :
(d) 1, 2 and 3
A. Muhammad Shah
49. ______states are known as
B. Jahandar Shah
the "authorized state" because
C. Alamgir II the Mughal empire was
conquered here.
D. Ahmad Shah
(1) Maratha, Karnataka, Panipat.
Codes :
(2) Karnataka, Sindh, Delhi,
(1) A C D B
(3) Awadh, Bengal, Hyderabad.
(2) B A D C
(4) Bangal, Karnataka, Paanipat.
(3) C A B D
50.
(4) D B C A

46. Emperor Shah Alam II gave

the diwani of Bengal-Bihar and
Orissa to East India Company on

(1) 12 August 1765

(2) 18 August 1765