History & Art and Culture Quizzes

IAS-level practice questions on the Delhi Sultanate, its administration and its architecture -- the five dynasties from Aibak to Ibrahim Lodi, the Sultan and the central departments, the nobility and the court, the iqta system and provincial and local government.

Test your knowledge of India's earliest cities and the age of the Vedas that followed them.

IAS-level practice questions on the Mauryan and Gupta empires -- the rise of Magadha and the Nandas, Chandragupta Maurya and Kautilya, Bindusara, Ashoka and the Kalinga War and dhamma, Mauryan administration from the Arthashastra and Megasthenes, Mauryan art and the Ashokan pillars and edicts.

IAS-level practice questions on the Mughal Empire -- its political history from Babur to the last emperor, the government and the mansabdari system, the provinces and the land revenue, the economy and trade and the European companies, and the art of the age: Mughal architecture from Humayun.

Test your knowledge of Harsha, the Deccan dynasties, and the great kingdoms of the far south.

Test your knowledge of Buddha, Mahavira, and the new sects that challenged Vedic religion.

Test your knowledge of the forest and farmland revolts that resisted colonial rule.

IAS-level practice questions on India's UNESCO World Heritage Sites -- the great Mughal and Rajput monuments of the north, the cave and temple sites of the Deccan and south, Buddhist and composite cultural sites from Sanchi to the Moidams, India's Natural and Mixed sites.

Test your knowledge of two great rival kingdoms that shaped the medieval Deccan.

IAS-level practice questions on Indian classical music, puppetry and theatre -- Hindustani ragas, talas, thaats and gharanas, Carnatic melakartas, talas and the Carnatic Trinity of composers, the instruments and Bharat Ratna musicians of both traditions, the string, shadow.

IAS-level practice questions on the advent of the European trading companies and the rise of British power in India -- the Portuguese, Dutch, Danish and French, the early English settlements, the Carnatic Wars.

Test your knowledge of the poet-saints and Sufi mystics who reshaped Indian religious life.

IAS-level practice questions on the Gandhian era of the Indian freedom movement -- Gandhi's years in South Africa and his early Indian satyagrahas at Champaran, Kheda and Ahmedabad, the Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh, the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movements.

IAS-level practice questions on Indian architecture, sculpture and pottery -- prehistoric rock art and Harappan pottery and terracotta, Buddhist stupas, chaityas and rock-cut caves, the Gandhara, Mathura and Amaravati schools of sculpture, the Nagara, Dravida and Vesara styles.

Test your knowledge of the founding of the Congress and the early leaders who first gave Indian nationalism its voice.

Test your knowledge of India's painting traditions and its eight classical dance forms.

Test your knowledge of the final, dramatic years of the freedom struggle, from Quit India to independence itself.

Test your knowledge of the great uprising that shook British rule and remade the map of India.

Test your knowledge of the reformers who challenged old customs and reshaped modern India.

Test your knowledge of the Partition of Bengal, the Swadeshi and boycott campaign, and the fiery new leaders it produced.