MA History PG Entrance Question Paper 2025 [Gauhati University PG Entrance Exam Paper]

If you are preparing for the Gauhati University MA History PG Entrance Examination (PGET/CUET), practicing model question papers can help you understand the exam pattern and important topics. In this post, we have provided a full Gauhati University MA History PGET Model Question Paper containing questions from Historiography, History of Assam, Indian History, World History, and other important areas.

The questions included here have been collected through verbal discussions with various students who appeared for the entrance examination in previous years. Therefore, this model paper is intended for practice and guidance purposes only and may not exactly reflect the actual examination paper. Candidates are advised to use it along with the official syllabus and other study materials for better preparation.

MA History PG Entrance (PGET) – Full Model Question Paper 2025

Instructions

• Total Questions: 100

• Total Marks: 100 (1 mark each)

• Duration: 2 Hours

• Negative Marking: 0.25 marks for every wrong answer

• All questions are compulsory. Choose the correct option (A, B, C, or D).

Section A: Historiography & Historical Methods

Q.1. Who is regarded as the ‘Father of Scientific History’?
A) Herodotus
B) Thucydides
C) Leopold von Ranke
D) Karl Marx

Q.2. The book What is History? was written by:
A) R.G. Collingwood
B) E.H. Carr
C) Marc Bloch
D) G.R. Elton

Q.3. The Subaltern Studies School is mainly associated with:
A) Ranajit Guha
B) Romila Thapar
C) Irfan Habib
D) Bipan Chandra

Q.4. Which of the following is a primary source?
A) Research monograph
B) Inscription
C) Modern textbook
D) Secondary analysis

Q.5. The Annales School focused on:
A) Political history
B) Longue durée and socio-economic structures
C) Military campaigns
D) Royal biographies

Q.6. Who among the following emphasized objectivity in history?
A) Leopold von Ranke
B) Karl Marx
C) Michel Foucault
D) Jacques Derrida

Q.7. The Idea of History is authored by:
A) E.H. Carr
B) R.G. Collingwood
C) Arnold Toynbee
D) J.B. Bury

Q.8. Archaeological sources include all except:
A) Coins
B) Inscriptions
C) Official gazettes
D) Monuments

Q.9. Nationalist historiography in India is represented by:
A) R.C. Majumdar and Jadunath Sarkar
B) D.D. Kosambi
C) Romila Thapar
D) B.R. Ambedkar

Q.10. Oral traditions are particularly valuable for the history of:
A) Ancient empires
B) Tribal and folk communities
C) Mughal administration
D) British revenue policy

Q.11. Positivist historiography is associated with:
A) Auguste Comte
B) Karl Marx
C) Postmodernism
D) Postcolonial theory

Q.12. The concept of ‘Historicism’ is linked to:
A) Leopold von Ranke
B) E.H. Carr
C) Ranajit Guha
D) Marc Bloch

Q.13. Who wrote The History of British India?
A) James Mill
B) Vincent Smith
C) Mountstuart Elphinstone
D) William Jones

Q.14. Bias in historical writing can be minimized through:
A) Use of multiple sources
B) Ignoring contradictory evidence
C) Personal opinion
D) Selective facts

Q.15. Indian Marxist historiography is best represented by:
A) Irfan Habib and R.S. Sharma
B) R.C. Majumdar
C) Jadunath Sarkar
D) Nilmani Chakravarty

Section B: History of Assam

Q.16. The founder of the Ahom Kingdom in Assam was:
A) Sukaphaa
B) Rudra Singha
C) Pratap Singha
D) Lachit Borphukan

Q.17. The Battle of Saraighat was fought in the year:
A) 1671
B) 1663
C) 1682
D) 1616

Q.18. The Treaty of Yandabo was signed in:
A) 1826
B) 1825
C) 1838
D) 1857

Q.19. The capital of ancient Kamarupa was:
A) Pragjyotishpur
B) Sivasagar
C) Jorhat
D) Guwahati

Q.20. The first martyr of the Quit India Movement in Assam was:
A) Kanaklata Barua
B) Kushal Konwar
C) Maniram Dewan
D) Kamala Miri

Q.21. Rudra Singha is known for performing the:
A) Ashwamedha Yagya
B) Vajapeya
C) Rajasuya
D) None

Q.22. Maniram Dewan was hanged by the British in:
A) 1858
B) 1828
C) 1942
D) 1860

Q.23. The Ryot Sabha movement was started by:
A) Nabin Chandra Bordoloi
B) Tarun Ram Phukan
C) Gopinath Bordoloi
D) Ambikagiri Raychaudhuri

Q.24. The Koch Kingdom was founded by:
A) Biswa Singha
B) Naranarayan
C) Chilarai
D) Sukaphaa

Q.25. Bhaskar Varman was a contemporary of:
A) Harshavardhana
B) Ashoka
C) Akbar
D) Aurangzeb

Q.26. The Ahom capital shifted to Sivasagar during the reign of:
A) Rudra Singha
B) Suhungmung
C) Pratap Singha
D) Gadadhar Singha

Q.27. The Assam Tea Industry was pioneered by:
A) Maniram Dewan
B) Robert Bruce
C) David Scott
D) Lord Dalhousie

Q.28. The Assam Accord was signed in the year:
A) 1985
B) 1979
C) 1990
D) 1972

Q.29. Lachit Borphukan’s famous victory was against:
A) Mughals
B) Ahoms
C) British
D) Burmese

Q.30. The Salastambha dynasty ruled in:
A) Kamarupa
B) Ahom Kingdom
C) Koch Kingdom
D) Chutia Kingdom

Q.31. The first Burmese invasion of Assam took place in:
A) 1817
B) 1824
C) 1769
D) 1826

Q.32. Who was known as the ‘Architect of Modern Assam’?
A) Gopinath Bordoloi
B) Tarun Ram Phukan
C) Ambikagiri Raychaudhuri
D) Nabin Chandra Bordoloi

Q.33. The Battle of Itakhuli was fought between:
A) Ahoms and Mughals
B) Ahoms and Koch
C) British and Burmese
D) Ahoms and Chutias

Q.34. Siva Singha was influenced by:
A) Shakti worship
B) Vaishnavism
C) Buddhism
D) Christianity

Q.35. The Sylhet Referendum (1947) led to:
A) Sylhet joining East Pakistan
B) Sylhet remaining in Assam
C) Partition of Assam
D) None

Q.36. The Pala dynasty of Kamarupa was founded by:
A) Brahmapala
B) Bhaskar Varman
C) Sukaphaa
D) Biswa Singha

Q.37. The Chutia Kingdom was primarily located in:
A) Eastern Assam
B) Western Assam
C) Central Assam
D) Southern Assam

Q.38. The Kachari Kingdom had its capital at:
A) Maibong
B) Sivasagar
C) Pragjyotishpur
D) Koch Bihar

Q.39. British administration in Assam began after the:
A) Treaty of Yandabo (1826)
B) Battle of Saraighat
C) First Burmese War
D) Assam Accord

Q.40. Who among the following was a prominent leader of the Assam freedom movement and later became Chief Minister?
A) Gopinath Bordoloi
B) Maniram Dewan
C) Lachit Borphukan
D) Kanaklata Barua

Q.41. The Ryot Sabha movement in Assam was mainly against:
A) High land revenue and exploitation by zamindars
B) British tea planters only
C) Burmese invaders
D) Ahom rule

Q.42. Major socio-economic change introduced by the British in Assam was:
A) Development of tea plantation industry
B) Decline of handloom industry
C) Both A and B
D) Introduction of railways only

Q.43. The Assam Agitation (1979–1985) was primarily related to:
A) Illegal immigration from Bangladesh
B) Demand for separate statehood
C) Language issue only
D) Tea garden workers’ rights

Q.44. The Assam Accord was signed in the year:
A) 1985
B) 1979
C) 1990
D) 1960

Q.45. Post-independence, which movement in Assam demanded greater autonomy and led to the creation of new states like Meghalaya, Mizoram, etc.?
A) Reorganisation of states on linguistic basis
B) Assam Tea Workers Movement
C) Bodo Movement
D) All of the above

Section C: Indian History

Q.46. The Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in:
A) 1921
B) 1924
C) 1901
D) 1931

Q.47. Ashoka’s edicts are mainly written in:
A) Brahmi and Kharosthi
B) Sanskrit
C) Prakrit only
D) Greek

Q.48. The founder of the Mauryan Empire was:
A) Chandragupta Maurya
B) Ashoka
C) Bindusara
D) Chanakya

Q.49. The Gupta period is known as the:
A) Golden Age of India
B) Dark Age
C) Medieval period
D) Vedic Age

Q.50. The Delhi Sultanate was founded by:
A) Qutb-ud-din Aibak
B) Iltutmish
C) Balban
D) Alauddin Khilji

Q.51. Akbar’s revenue minister was:
A) Todar Mal
B) Birbal
C) Abul Fazl
D) Tansen

Q.52. The Revolt of 1857 began at:
A) Meerut
B) Delhi
C) Kanpur
D) Lucknow

Q.53. Who founded the Brahmo Samaj?
A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B) Dayanand Saraswati
C) Vivekananda
D) Annie Besant

Q.54. The Indian National Congress was founded in:
A) 1885
B) 1905
C) 1915
D) 1920

Q.55. The Quit India Movement was launched in:
A) 1942
B) 1930
C) 1929
D) 1947

Q.56. Subhash Chandra Bose formed:
A) Indian National Army
B) Forward Bloc
C) Both
D) None

Q.57. The Partition of Bengal took place in:
A) 1905
B) 1911
C) 1947
D) 1858

Q.58. The Government of India Act, 1935 introduced:
A) Provincial Autonomy
B) Dyarchy
C) Separate Electorates
D) Dominion Status

Q.59. Who wrote Discovery of India?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Subhash Chandra Bose
D) Sardar Patel

Q.60. Sati was abolished by:
A) Lord William Bentinck
B) Lord Dalhousie
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Ripon

Q.61. The Vedic Age is divided into Early Vedic and Later Vedic periods. The main difference is:
A) Shift from pastoral to agricultural society
B) Use of iron tools in Later Vedic period
C) Both A and B
D) Rise of Buddhism only

Q.62. Which of the following is a prominent text of the Vedic Age?
A) Rigveda
B) Arthashastra
C) Ain-i-Akbari
D) Baburnama

Q.63. The Bhakti Movement in medieval India emphasized:
A) Devotional worship and personal relationship with God
B) Ritual sacrifices
C) Temple architecture only
D) Political power

Q.64. Kabir and Nanak are associated with which tradition?
A) Bhakti
B) Sufi
C) Both Bhakti and Sufi influence
D) Vedic rituals

Q.65. The Vijayanagara Empire was founded by:
A) Harihara and Bukka
B) Krishnadevaraya
C) Pulakeshin II
D) Rajaraja Chola

Q.66. Who among the following is known as the founder of the Maratha Empire?
A) Shivaji
B) Balaji Vishwanath
C) Peshwa Bajirao
D) Aurangzeb

Q.67. The Brahmo Samaj was founded by:
A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
C) Swami Vivekananda
D) Annie Besant

Q.68. The Moderate phase of the Indian National Congress was characterized by:
A) Constitutional methods and petitions
B) Boycott and Swadeshi
C) Armed revolution
D) Non-cooperation

Q.69. The Partition of Bengal (1905) led to the rise of:
A) Extremist leaders like Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal and Lajpat Rai
B) Moderate leaders
C) Muslim League only
D) British reforms

Q.70. The Gandhian phase of the freedom struggle began prominently with:
A) Non-Cooperation Movement (1920)
B) Quit India Movement
C) Swadeshi Movement
D) Civil Disobedience Movement

Q.71. The Revolutionary terrorist movement in Bengal was associated with:
A) Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar
B) Indian National Congress
C) Muslim League
D) Home Rule League

Q.72. Subhash Chandra Bose was associated with:
A) Forward Bloc and INA
B) Moderates
C) Khilafat Movement only
D) None

Q.73. The Quit India Movement was launched in:
A) 1942
B) 1930
C) 1920
D) 1947

Q.74. The integration of Princely States into the Indian Union was primarily handled by:
A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Lord Mountbatten
D) C. Rajagopalachari

Q.75. Which socio-religious reform movement focused on widow remarriage and women’s education?
A) Arya Samaj
B) Brahmo Samaj
C) Aligarh Movement
D) Both A and B

Section D: World History

Q.76. The French Revolution began in the year:
A) 1789
B) 1776
C) 1815
D) 1848

Q.77. The Industrial Revolution first started in:
A) Britain
B) France
C) Germany
D) USA

Q.78. The Russian Revolution of 1917 was led by:
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Leon Trotsky
D) Karl Marx

Q.79. The Unification of Italy was mainly led by:
A) Garibaldi and Cavour
B) Bismarck
C) Napoleon III
D) Metternich

Q.80. The Treaty of Versailles was signed after:
A) World War I
B) World War II
C) Napoleonic Wars
D) Franco-Prussian War

Q.81. The League of Nations was established in:
A) 1919
B) 1945
C) 1920
D) 1939

Q.82. The Renaissance movement first began in:
A) Italy
B) France
C) England
D) Spain

Q.83. Napoleon’s final defeat occurred at the Battle of:
A) Waterloo
B) Trafalgar
C) Austerlitz
D) Leipzig

Q.84. The Cold War started primarily after:
A) World War II
B) World War I
C) Russian Revolution
D) Korean War

Q.85. Fascism as a political ideology rose first in:
A) Italy under Mussolini
B) Germany under Hitler
C) Spain under Franco
D) Japan

Q.86. Which ancient civilization is known as the ‘Gift of the Nile’?
A) Mesopotamian
B) Egyptian
C) Greek
D) Roman

Q.87. The feudal system was most prominent during the:
A) Ancient period
B) Medieval Europe
C) Renaissance
D) Industrial Age

Q.88. The Reformation movement was started by:
A) Martin Luther
B) John Calvin
C) Henry VIII
D) All of the above

Q.89. The Scientific Revolution is associated with scientists like:
A) Copernicus, Galileo, Newton
B) Aristotle, Plato
C) Rousseau, Voltaire
D) Marx, Engels

Q.90. The American Revolution (War of Independence) took place in:
A) 1775–1783
B) 1789–1799
C) 1812
D) 1848

Q.91. The policy of Imperialism in the late 19th century was mainly driven by:
A) Economic needs and nationalism
B) Religious motives only
C) Anti-colonial movements
D) Peace treaties

Q.92. The immediate cause of World War II was:
A) German invasion of Poland
B) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
C) Treaty of Versailles
D) Russian Revolution

Q.93. The United Nations Organization (UNO) was founded in:
A) 1945
B) 1919
C) 1939
D) 1950

Q.94. Decolonization after 1945 mainly refers to:
A) Independence of Asian and African countries
B) Rise of Fascism
C) Cold War alliances
D) Industrial growth

Q.95. The Berlin Wall fell in the year:
A) 1989
B) 1991
C) 1975
D) 1961

Section E: Miscellaneous / Interdisciplinary

Q.96. The capital of the Vijayanagara Empire was:
A) Hampi
B) Madurai
C) Tanjore
D) Warangal

Q.97. Who was the first Governor-General of free India?
A) Lord Mountbatten
B) C. Rajagopalachari
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sardar Patel

Q.98. The Battle of Plassey (1757) was fought between:
A) British and Siraj-ud-Daulah
B) Mughals and Marathas
C) French and British
D) Ahoms and Mughals

Q.99. Which of the following is a key focus of Environmental History?
A) Interaction between humans and nature over time
B) Only political events
C) Military strategies
D) Religious texts

Q.100. The Non-Aligned Movement was co-founded by Jawaharlal Nehru along with:
A) Tito (Yugoslavia) and Nasser (Egypt)
B) Stalin and Churchill
C) Roosevelt and Truman
D) Hitler and Mussolini

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