Assam History GK MCQ Quiz for Exam Preparation
Assam History GK MCQ quiz for APSC, SSC, UPSC, and other competitive exams. This quiz includes important questions on key events and figures in Assam’s history.
Assam History Quiz with MCQ
Who is considered the author of the earliest recorded history of Assam, known as ‘Buranjees’?
- A) Sukaphaa
- B) Rudra Singha
- C) Gadadhar Singha
- D) No specific author; it was written by Ahom scholars
Which Ahom ruler commissioned the construction of the famous Joysagar Tank?
- A) Gadadhar Singha
- B) Rudra Singha
- C) Siva Singha
- D) Rajeswar Singha
The Ahom kingdom was officially founded in which year?
- A) 1228 AD
- B) 1253 AD
- C) 1290 AD
- D) 1321 AD
The historic Darrang Desh, an ancient territory, is primarily associated with which river?
- A) Brahmaputra
- B) Dibang
- C) Dhansiri
- D) Manas
During the Moamoria Rebellion, which community rose against the Ahom rulers?
- A) Bhuyans
- B) Kacharis
- C) Vaishnavite Moamorias
- D) Koch Rajbongshis
Which British official’s death was a catalyst for resistance against British rule in Assam in the 1820s?
- A) David Scott
- B) Charles Bruce
- C) Robert Clive
- D) Lt. White
Who was the first king of the Kamata Kingdom in western Assam?
- A) Naranarayan
- B) Durlabh Narayan
- C) Mahendra Narayan
- D) Bhaskar Varman
Which ancient text contains the earliest reference to Assam as “Pragjyotisha”?
- A) Rigveda
- B) Arthashastra
- C) Mahabharata
- D) Vishnu Purana
Who among the following was the first historian to attempt a written history of Assam in English?
- A) Edward Gait
- B) Lachit Borphukan
- C) Sukaphaa
- D) Rudra Singha
In which year did the British annex Assam into British India?
- A) 1826
- B) 1836
- C) 1840
- D) 1857
Who was the last king of the Chutiya kingdom before it was annexed by the Ahoms?
- A) Durlabh Narayan
- B) Nitipal
- C) Bishwasingha
- D) Lakshminarayan
The term ‘Borphukan’ in the Ahom kingdom referred to which position?
- A) Army chief
- B) Head of state
- C) Head of Guwahati administration
- D) Chief priest
Who led the Battle of Itakhuli in 1682, establishing Ahom control over Guwahati?
- A) Sukapha
- B) Gadadhar Singha
- C) Rudra Singha
- D) Lachit Borphukan
The First Assam Tea Plantation was set up in which location?
- A) Jorhat
- B) Sivasagar
- C) Dibrugarh
- D) Chabua
The Manas National Park was historically known as the hunting grounds for which rulers?
- A) Ahom
- B) Koch
- C) Chutiya
- D) British
Who was the first Ahom king to embrace Hinduism?
- A) Suhungmung
- B) Gadadhar Singha
- C) Rudra Singha
- D) Jayadhwaj Singha
In which city was the Assam Sahitya Sabha first established?
- A) Sivasagar
- B) Tezpur
- C) Jorhat
- D) Guwahati
Which Ahom ruler is credited with introducing copper coins in Assam?
- A) Rudra Singha
- B) Siva Singha
- C) Gadadhar Singha
- D) Jayadhwaj Singha
In which year did the Moamoria Rebellion begin?
- A) 1769
- B) 1783
- C) 1795
- D) 1801
Who led the Khamti rebellion against British rule in 1839?
- A) Piyoli Phukan
- B) Kachari Phukan
- C) Chao Chukham
- D) Bhaskar Phukan
The Buranjis were written in which languages?
- A) Assamese and Sanskrit
- B) Assamese and Tai-Ahom
- C) Sanskrit and Tai-Ahom
- D) Sanskrit and Bengali
Which Ahom king was known for his military reforms and expansionist policies?
- A) Rudra Singha
- B) Pramatta Singha
- C) Jayadhwaj Singha
- D) Siva Singha
The practice of ‘Paik’ system in Assam was introduced by which dynasty?
- A) Ahom
- B) Kachari
- C) Chutiya
- D) Koch
The Kalika Purana, an important text for Kamakhya worship, was composed during which century?
- A) 8th century
- B) 10th century
- C) 11th century
- D) 12th century
In the Ahom kingdom, what was the position of the ‘Borphukan’?
- A) Head of state
- B) Chief priest
- C) Administrator of lower Assam
- D) Court historian
The battle of Sariaghat was primarily a conflict between the Ahoms and which other force?
- A) Mughals
- B) Marathas
- C) British
- D) Portuguese
The famous Sattriya dance of Assam originated under the influence of which saint?
- A) Sankardeva
- B) Madhavdeva
- C) Gopinath Bordoloi
- D) Mahapurush
Who established the first Assamese-medium school in Assam?
- A) Anandaram Dhekial Phookan
- B) Hemchandra Barua
- C) Gopinath Bordoloi
- D) Lakshminath Bezbaroa
The name of which Assamese general is celebrated in Assam as Lachit Divas?
- A) Siva Singha
- B) Rudra Singha
- C) Gadadhar Singha
- D) Lachit Borphukan
In 1828, which insurgent leader in Assam attempted a rebellion against British rule?
- A) Chao Suan
- B) Maniram Dewan
- C) Hema Bora
- D) Piyoli Phukan
- Who was the founder of the Dimasa Kingdom in Assam?
- A) Sukapha
- B) Durlabh Narayan
- C) Bhaskar Varman
- D) Kachari King
- The Treaty of Yandabo, signed in 1826, led to the end of which conflict involving Assam?
- A) Moamoria Rebellion
- B) Anglo-Burmese War
- C) Battle of Saraighat
- D) British-Ahom conflict
- Which Assamese king sent an envoy to the Chinese Emperor in the 17th century?
- A) Rudra Singha
- B) Gadadhar Singha
- C) Siva Singha
- D) Pramatta Singha
- Which ruler was responsible for shifting the capital of the Ahom Kingdom from Garhgaon to Rangpur?
- A) Suhungmung
- B) Rudra Singha
- C) Siva Singha
- D) Jayadhwaj Singha
- Which Assamese ruler played a significant role in the Battle of Bhaga?
- A) Naranarayan
- B) Sukapha
- C) Bhaskar Varman
- D) Lakshminarayan
- The Ahom dynasty ruled Assam for approximately how many years?
- A) 300 years
- B) 400 years
- C) 500 years
- D) 600 years
- Who was the first woman to be an Assamese novelist?
- A) Nalini Bala Devi
- B) Indira Goswami
- C) Sudhakantha Bhupen Hazarika
- D) Rajbala Devi
- Which river is referred to as the “Lifeline of Assam”?
- A) Dibang
- B) Manas
- C) Lohit
- D) Brahmaputra
- Who was the first Assamese person to be awarded the Padma Shri?
- A) Indira Goswami
- B) Gopinath Bordoloi
- C) Parbati Prasad Barua
- D) Bhupen Hazarika
- In ancient times, the capital of the Kamrupa Kingdom was located in which city?
- A) Sivasagar
- B) Guwahati
- C) Tezpur
- D) Dhubri
- Which treaty led to the formal end of Ahom independence and British annexation of Assam?
- A) Treaty of Sadiya
- B) Treaty of Yandabo
- C) Treaty of Tinsukia
- D) Treaty of Rangpur
- Who was the first martyr of Assam in the Quit India Movement?
- A) Maniram Dewan
- B) Kushal Konwar
- C) Kanaklata Barua
- D) Piyoli Phukan
- The Dhekiakhowa Bornamghar, a historic religious site in Assam, was established by which saint?
- A) Madhavdeva
- B) Gopal Ata
- C) Sankardeva
- D) Srimanta Sankaradeva
- The Assam Literary Society (Oxom Sahitya Sabha) was founded in which year?
- A) 1917
- B) 1919
- C) 1921
- D) 1925
- In Assam, the term ‘Bihu’ refers to which of the following?
- A) A traditional dance
- B) A festival
- C) A folk song
- D) All of the above
- Who was the founder of the famous Charaideo burial grounds in Assam?
- A) Rudra Singha
- B) Gadadhar Singha
- C) Sukapha
- D) Jayadhwaj Singha
- Which river formed the eastern boundary of the ancient Kamrupa Kingdom?
- A) Lohit
- B) Dibang
- C) Manas
- D) Subansiri
- Who was the editor of the first Assamese newspaper, Orunodoi?
- A) Ananda Ram Dhekial Phukan
- B) Hemchandra Barua
- C) Nathan Brown
- D) Laxminath Bezbaroa
- The king Bhaskar Varman, who ruled Assam in ancient times, was a contemporary of which Indian emperor?
- A) Samudragupta
- B) Ashoka
- C) Harshavardhana
- D) Bindusara
- Which dynasty ruled Assam immediately before the Ahoms?
- A) Koch
- B) Kachari
- C) Chutiya
- D) Dimasa