61). Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
List I List II
1. Asia : Herat
2. Araehizia : Kandhar
3. Gednosia : Baluchistan
4. Parapyhadae : Kabul
| A). 1 and 2 |
| B). 1,2 and 3 |
| C). 2,3 and 4 |
| D). All of these |
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62). The highly polished monolithic Ashokan Pillars were carved out of single pieces of a
buff coloured sandstone, usually mined from the quarries of
| A). Chunar near Mirzapur |
| B). Lauriya in Nandangarh |
| C). Sarnath near Varanasi |
| D). Udayagiri near Bhubaneshwar |
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63). Which of the following Southern people are clearly mentioned in the Ashokan inscription?
1. Cholas 2. Pallavas
3. Pandyas 4. Keralaputras
5. Satvaputra
Select the correct answer using the cedes given below
| A). 1,2,3 and 4 |
| B). 1,3,4 and 5 |
| C). 2,3 and 4 |
| D). 3 and 4 |
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64). Indica of Megasthenes is now lost, but it is still preserved in the form of quotations by later writers.
Who among the following was one of the later Greek writers to quote from Megasthenes?
| A). Aorian |
| B). Strabo |
| C). Diodoras |
| D). All of these |
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65). Chandragupta Maurya is said to have spent his last years in South India at a place called
| A). Kanchi |
| B). Madurai |
| C). Sravanbelgola |
| D). Rameshwaram |
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66). Who among the following is not contemporary of Ashoka?
| A). Antiochus I |
| B). Antiochus II |
| C). Ptolemy II |
| D). Magas of Cyrene |
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67). During Bindusara's reign, Ashoka suppressed an uprising at which place?
| A). Kalinga |
| B). Brahmagiri |
| C). Ujjain |
| D). Taxila |
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68). Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
1. Uttarapatha :Taxila
2. Avantipatha :Rajpura
3. Dakshinapatha :Suvarnagiri
4. Kalinga :Tosali
| A). 1,2 and 3 |
| B). 1,3 and 4 |
| C). 2,3 and 4 |
| D). All of these |
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69). Pativedikas' and 'Pulisanis' of Ashokan edicts are concerned with
| A). military department |
| B). police department |
| C). commerce and Industry |
| D). espionage |
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70). Consider the following statements and mark the option which is correct
1. The Kaushambi pillar was brought to Allahabad by Jahangir.
2. The Topra and Meerut pillar were brought to Delhi by Feroz Shah Tughlaq.
3. The Bairat inscription was brought to Kolkata by Cunningham.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct
| A). Only 2 |
| B). 1 and 3 |
| C). All of the above |
| D). None of the above |
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