Assam History Questions for APSC

 

Assam History is most essential topic for APSC examination as well as other competitive examination in Assam.

Important questions of  Assam History  are given here .

1.  Consider the following statements

a) Assam has its origin in the Sanskrit word Asom meaning Unparalleled or Peerless.

b) This land also described as Pragjyotishpura or the " City of Eastern lights".

c) Ahom rulers described Assam as " Nung Dun Chum Kham " or the " Country of Golden Gardens" .

Options : 

i) only a true 

ii) only b true 

iii) a and c true 

iv) a, b and c true.

Ans: a, b and c true.

2. Consider the following statements

a) The mediaeval history of Assam is dominated by Ahoms .

b) Ahoms were Tai group of People.

c) Ahoms were migrated from Tunnan in China.

d) Ahoms ruled Assam for nearly 600 years ( 1228 - 1826) 

Options:

i) a and b are true.

ii) a and c are true .

iii) b and c are true .

iv) all are true.

Ans: iv) All are true.

3. Who was the first ruler of Assam?

Ans: Mahiranga Danaba of Danaba dynasty.

4. Write the names in chronological order:

i) Sambasur 

ii) Hatakasur 

iii) Ratnasur 

iv) Mahiranga Danaba

Ans: iv) Mahiranga Danaba

ii) Hatakasur

i) Sambasur

iii) Ratnasur.

5. Ghatakasur was the ruler of whom?

Ans: The Kiratas.

6. Who made Pragjyotishpura as his capital?

Ans: Narakasur.

7. Who killed Narakasura ?

Ans: Lord Krishna.

8. Consider the following statements:

a) The history of Assam can be divided into four eras.

b)  The ancient era began in the 4th century with the mention of Kamarupa in Samudraguota's Inscriptions on the Allahabad Pillar and the establishment of the Kamarupa Kingdom.

c)  The medieval era began with the attacks from the Bengal Sultanate, the first of which took place in 1206 by Bakhtiyar Khilji as mentioned in the Kanai-borosiboa rock inscription.  

c) The colonial era began with the establishment of British control after the Treaty of Yandaboo in 1826 

d) the post - colonial era began in 1947 after the Independence of India  .

Options: 

i) a and b are true.

ii) a and c are true .

iii) b and c are true .

iv) all are true.

Ans: iv) All are true.

9. Consider the following statements:

a) The earliest inhabitants of Assam are assigned to the Middle Pleistocene period (781,000 to 126, 000 years ago) in the Rongram valley of Garo Hills.

b) The Palaeolithic people of Assam used handaxe- cleaver tools .

c) They have affinities to the Abbevillio - Acheulean culture.

d) Daphabum area of Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh is an example of Palaeolithic site .

e) Khangkhui in Ukhrul , Manipur are examples of Palaeolithic sites but these are placed in the Late Pleistocene period.

Options: 

i) a and b are true.

ii) a and c are true .

iii) b and c are true .

iv) a , b , c and d are true.

v) all are true.

Ans: iv) All are true.

10. Consider the following statements:

a) Daojali Hading  is located in Dima Hasao 

b) Sarutara is located in Kamrup district.

c) Selbagiri is located in the Garo Hills.

Options:

i) Only a is true.

ii) Only b is true .

iii) a and b are true.

iv) all are true.

Ans: All  are true.

11. Consider the following statements:

a)In Metal age , there exists no archaeological evidence of Copper - Bronze or Iron Age culture in Assam.

b) The megalithic culture was the precursor of the fertility cult.

Options:

i) Only a is true.

ii) Only b is true.

iii) all are true.

Ans : iii)  all are true. 

12. Who was the first person to refer to finds of jade Neolithic implements in Upper Assam?

Ans: John Lubbock.

13.Who wrote the article ' Pre - history of Assam '?

Ans: J.H. Hutton.

14. What is the official language of the varman dynasty?

a) Assamese and Bangla 

b) Kamrupi Prakrit and Sanskrit

c) Rajbongshi and Nepali 

d) None of the above.

Ans:Kamrupi Prakrit and Sanskrit.

15. Who was the earliest king of Pragjyotishpura?

a) Mahiranga Danaba

b) Bhaskar Barman 

c) Banasura

d) Naraka 

Ans: Mahiranga Danaba.

16. Banasura the king of Sonitpur was a great devotee of which God?

a) Vishnu 

b) Shiva 

c) Krishna

d) Brahma 

Ans: Shiva.

17. King Bana's daughter's name was  

a) Usha

b) Rukmini 

c) Radha 

d) Srimaya .

Ans: Usha .

18. Sonitpur was the capital of?

a) Bhaskar Varman

b) Mahiranga Danaba

c) Naraka 

d) Bana Raja 

Ans: Bana Raja. 

19.The capital of the Salastambha dynasty located at where?

a) Pragjyotisha 

b) Kamrupa 

c) Haruppeswara 

d) None of the above.

Ans: Haruppeswara.

20. Ghatakasura was killed by which king?

a) Narakasura

b) Bana Raja 

c) Mahiranga Danaba

d) None of the above

Ans: Narakasura.