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History and Freedom Movement PYQs (previous year questions) for NDA: History and Freedom Movement (General Knowledge) had 291 questions across the 42 official NDA papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 21 of them. Asked in 11 of 11 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Freedom Movement, Medieval India, Ancient India.
Year-wise question count
Asked in 11 of 11 years.
| Year | Papers | Questions | Per paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| NDA 2026 | 2 | 19 | 9.5 |
| NDA 2025 | 2 | 26 | 13 |
| NDA 2024 | 2 | 28 | 14 |
| NDA 2023 | 2 | 31 | 15.5 |
| NDA 2022 | 2 | 30 | 15 |
| NDA 2021 | 2 | 25 | 12.5 |
| NDA 2020 | 1 | 13 | 13 |
| NDA 2019 | 2 | 35 | 17.5 |
| NDA 2018 | 2 | 27 | 13.5 |
| NDA 2017 | 2 | 32 | 16 |
| NDA 2016 | 2 | 25 | 12.5 |
Most-asked concepts
Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.
| Concept | Questions | Papers | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom Movement | 42 | 16 | 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2018, 2017, 2016 |
| Medieval India | 29 | 10 | 2024, 2023, 2022, 2018, 2017, 2016 |
| Ancient India | 23 | 9 | 2024, 2023, 2022, 2018, 2017, 2016 |
| Modern India | 19 | 7 | 2024, 2018, 2017, 2016 |
| World History | 14 | 7 | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 |
| Harappan Civilisation | 8 | 7 | 2026, 2025, 2023, 2022, 2021 |
| Modern World | 16 | 6 | 2024, 2018, 2017, 2016 |
| Colonial Economy | 6 | 6 | 2024, 2021, 2017, 2016 |
| Industrial Revolution | 7 | 5 | 2026, 2025, 2020, 2019 |
| Post-Independence India | 7 | 5 | 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019 |
| Bhakti Movement | 5 | 4 | 2025, 2023, 2021, 2019 |
| Art and Culture | 4 | 4 | 2026, 2024, 2017 |
| Foreign Travellers | 4 | 4 | 2025, 2022, 2019 |
| Gandhian Era | 4 | 4 | 2021, 2020, 2019 |
| Revolt of 1857 | 4 | 4 | 2021, 2020, 2019 |
| Social Reform Movements | 5 | 3 | 2025, 2022, 2019 |
| British Expansion | 4 | 3 | 2022, 2019 |
| Indian Nationalism | 3 | 3 | 2020, 2019 |
| Russian Revolution | 3 | 3 | 2026, 2019 |
| Vijayanagara Empire | 3 | 3 | 2023, 2021, 2019 |
| Ancient Texts | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Socio-Religious Reforms | 4 | 2 | 2021 |
| British Legislation | 3 | 2 | 2025 |
| European Trading Companies | 3 | 2 | 2025, 2022 |
| Tribal Movements | 3 | 2 | 2021, 2020 |
| Buddhist Art | 2 | 2 | 2025, 2022 |
| Colonial Administration | 2 | 2 | 2021, 2019 |
| Constitutional Development | 2 | 2 | 2021, 2020 |
| Mauryan Empire | 2 | 2 | 2023, 2021 |
| Modern Indian History | 2 | 2 | 2026 |
| Mughal Administration | 2 | 2 | 2023, 2019 |
| Mughal Empire | 2 | 2 | 2021, 2019 |
| Napoleonic Wars | 2 | 2 | 2019 |
| National Movement | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Peasant Movements | 2 | 2 | 2025, 2019 |
| American Revolution | 2 | 1 | 2019 |
| Ancient History | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| British India | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Civil Disobedience | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cold War | 2 | 1 | 2019 |
| Age of Exploration | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Ancient and Medieval Literature | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Ancient Indian Society | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Ancient Inscriptions | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ancient Literature | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bhoodan Movement | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| British Historians | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Chola Administration | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Chola Empire | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colonial Art | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| European Settlements | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| French Revolution | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Gandhian Movements | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Heritage Conservation | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Indian Culture | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indian Military History | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indian National Congress | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Labour Movements | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Land Revenue Systems | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Local Self-Government | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mahajanapadas | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mauryan Administration | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Medieval Economy | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Medieval Texts | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Modern Education | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Panchsheel | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Permanent Settlement | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Quit India Movement | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Revolutionary Movements | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sangam Age | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sikhism | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sufi Movement | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sufism | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Swadeshi Movement | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
How to practise History and Freedom Movement PYQs
- Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
- Solve one year’s History and Freedom Movement questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
- Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
- Once a concept is clean in two papers, move to the next. Then sit a full paper from the year pages.
Questions by year
Each line gives the question number and paper, type, concept, our one-line summary and the official answer, with a link to the official PDF.
NDA2026
- Q.121 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient and Medieval Literature: Books matched with authors PDF
- Q.122 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Age of Exploration: Chronology of early European voyages and trading companies PDF
- Q.123 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Industrial Revolution: Textile inventions matched with inventors PDF
- Q.124 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Statements on the Rowlatt Act of 1919 PDF
- Q.125 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Industrial Revolution: Factors behind industrialisation PDF
- Q.126 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Russian Revolution: Statements on the 1905 Revolution PDF
- Q.127 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern Indian History: Who backed early railways for army movement PDF
- Q.128 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Harappan Civilisation: Location of the well supplying the Great Bath PDF
- Q.129 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Art and Culture: Towns with famous Jain pilgrimage sites PDF
- Q.130 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Harappan Civilisation: Bead making in Harappan sites PDF
- Q.121 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Venue of the December 1929 Congress session PDF
- Q.122 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Harappan Civilisation: Resource supplied by the Shortughai trading post PDF
- Q.123 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Industrial Revolution: Demands of the Luddite movement PDF
- Q.124 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Industrial Revolution: Statements on coal and iron in British industrialisation PDF
- Q.125 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient History: Inscription recording a guild of silk weavers PDF
- Q.126 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern Indian History: Socio-religious events matched with years PDF
- Q.127 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient History: Land types listed in the Amarakosha PDF
- Q.129 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Statements on the Lahore Session decisions PDF
- Q.130 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Art and Culture: Statements on Pallava temples of Kanchi PDF
NDA2025
- Q.51 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Industrial Revolution: Industries developed in the second industrial revolution after 1850 PDF
- Q.52 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Harappan Civilisation: Material used to make Harappan seals PDF
- Q.53 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Mahajanapadas: Which mahajanapada was an oligarchy PDF
- Q.54 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Buddhist Art: Sanchi Stupa sculpture not directly inspired by Buddhist ideas PDF
- Q.55 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · British Legislation: British-era Act allowing detention without trial up to two years PDF
- Q.56 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Bhoodan Movement: Correct statement about the Bhoodan Movement PDF
- Q.60 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Panchsheel: Which item is not one of the Panchsheel principles PDF
- Q.61 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval Economy: Route through which maize came to India in the 17th century PDF
- Q.63 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Bhakti Movement: Statements about Srimanta Shankardeva PDF
- Q.64 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · European Trading Companies: Place of the East India Company's 1611 factory PDF
- Q.65 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Chronological order of national movement events PDF
- Q.66 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · British Legislation: Act that set up the Supreme Court at Calcutta PDF
- Q.67 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Local Self-Government: Who moved the 1882 resolution on local self-government PDF
- Q.68 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Sufism: Term associated with Sufi practice PDF
- Q.76 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Peasant Movements: President of the first All India Kisan Sabha session in 1936 PDF
- Q.77 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Social Reform Movements: Founder of the Self-Respect Movement PDF
- Q.78 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Chola Administration: Chola land category meant for school maintenance PDF
- Q.79 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Statements about the Home Rule Leagues PDF
- Q.80 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Social Reform Movements: Incorrect statement about Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar PDF
- Q.81 (NDA (II) GAT) · Matching · Social Reform Movements: Match reformers with their social work or texts PDF
- Q.82 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Harappan Civilisation: Harappan site with traces of canals PDF
- Q.83 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Foreign Travellers: Chronological order of foreign travellers to India PDF
- Q.85 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Sangam Age: Who Senguttuvan was PDF
- Q.86 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient Literature: Author of the Ramacharita, a dvyasrya-kavya PDF
- Q.87 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · British Legislation: Act that set up the Board of Control PDF
- Q.88 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Sikhism: Sikh Guru who founded the Khalsa Panth PDF
NDA2024
- Q.62 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Statements on urban centres in India from 6th century BCE PDF
- Q.63 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Statements about ancient Indian inscriptions PDF
- Q.91 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Colonial Economy: Statements on 19th-century British trade with India PDF
- Q.92 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Match early Indian units of measure with what they measured PDF
- Q.93 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: First coins bearing names and images of rulers PDF
- Q.94 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Hallmarks of industrialisation and secularisation PDF
- Q.95 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Chronology of Rowlatt Act, Jallianwala, Khilafat, Non-Cooperation PDF
- Q.96 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Land Revenue Systems: Match land tenure categories with descriptions PDF
- Q.97 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Statements on Krishnadevaraya's expeditions PDF
- Q.134 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Postal system of India described by Ibn Battuta PDF
- Q.135 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Chakrapanidatta's commentary on Sushruta Samhita PDF
- Q.136 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Statements on the arrival of tobacco in India PDF
- Q.137 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Match early women's associations with associates PDF
- Q.138 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Statements on separate electorates for depressed classes PDF
- Q.139 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Statements regarding the silk routes PDF
- Q.140 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Art and Culture: Statements about how Ajanta paintings were made PDF
- Q.73 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Mahajanapada whose capital was Taxila PDF
- Q.74 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Last Governor-General of India PDF
- Q.99 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Correct statement about Industrial Revolution inventors PDF
- Q.100 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Colonial Economy: Founder of the first cotton mill in British India PDF
- Q.101 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Post-Independence India: Statements on linguistic reorganisation of states PDF
- Q.102 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Route of C. Rajagopalachari's salt march PDF
- Q.103 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Post-Independence India: Place where Vinoba Bhave received the first Bhoodan land PDF
- Q.104 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Route by which maize was introduced into India PDF
- Q.126 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Deity on whose behalf Vijayanagara rulers claimed to rule PDF
- Q.127 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: King described by Domingo Paes PDF
- Q.133 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Post-Independence India: Which is not a Panchsheel principle of 1954 PDF
- Q.134 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Movement in which Kanaklata Barua was martyred PDF
NDA2023
- Q.64 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Indian Military History: Year of the Battle of Rezang La (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.79 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Movement in which Kanaklata Barua was martyred (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.80 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Mughal Administration: Correct statement about the Mansabdari system (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.81 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · British India: Governor General of Bengal who faced impeachment (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.82 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Composer of Samudragupta's Prayag Prashasti (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.83 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Kingdom founded by Harihara and Bukka (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.84 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · European Settlements: Place where the Danes settled in India (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.97 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Statements about Lachit Borphukan (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.116 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: District that held a 1947 referendum on joining Pakistan (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.117 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Incorrect statement about the Rabatak inscription (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.118 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Author of the Sanskrit play Mrichchhakatika (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.119 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Kingdom ruled by Yashovarman (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.120 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Ruler who made Pataliputra the Magadhan capital (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.138 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Renaissance artist who painted The Last Supper (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.139 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · World History: European explorer who conquered Mexico (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.140 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: City near which statues of Kushana rulers were found (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.141 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · British India: War that ended with the Treaty of Yandabo (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.144 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Indian Culture: North-East tribe earliest associated with tea cultivation (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.72 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Which was not a way ancient kings claimed higher status (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.73 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Bhakti Movement: Incorrect statement about the Bhakti movement (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.74 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Meaning of the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.75 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Which was not an impact of the First World War on Europe (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.76 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Movement whose resolution demanded immediate end of British rule (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.98 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Statements on the discovery and carvings of Sanchi (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.100 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Composer of the 16th-century text Chandimangala (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.101 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Vijayanagara Empire: Statements about the royal centre of Vijayanagara (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.118 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Harappan Civilisation: Statements about Harappan ploughs and ploughed fields (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.119 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Statements on textile inventions of the Industrial Revolution (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.121 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Mauryan Empire: Minor Rock Edict that names Ashoka personally (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.122 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Chronological order of four ancient Indian texts (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.136 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Post-Independence India: Statements about the Bhoodan movement (official answer: C) PDF
NDA2022
- Q.101 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient Texts: Main focus of the Arthashastra (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.102 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient Texts: Period of origin of the Charaka Samhita (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.103 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Buddhist Art: Symbols used for the Buddha in early sculpture (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.112 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Foreign Travellers: Chinese traveller who wrote a travel record of India (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.115 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Rights in the American Declaration of Independence (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.116 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · World History: US President who defined democracy as of, by, for the people (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.121 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern Education: Start of western education in India (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.122 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Person who first used the term Industrial Revolution (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.123 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Organiser of the Khudai Khidmatgar (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.124 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Organiser of the Mahad Satyagraha of 1927 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.125 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Social Reform Movements: Founder of the Satyashodhak Samaj (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.126 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval Texts: Subject of the 13th-century Lekhapaddhati (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.127 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · World History: African country of Nkrumah, a founder of NAM (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.51 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient Inscriptions: Work composed by Harishena (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.53 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · British Expansion: Battle seen as the formal foundation of British rule (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.54 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · European Trading Companies: Site of an early English trading post in South India (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.55 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · European Trading Companies: Statements on European trading companies and Vasco da Gama (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.86 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Inventor of the flying shuttle (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.87 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Place where Bose announced the Azad Hind government (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.89 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Chronological order of freedom movement events (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.90 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Statements about the Unionist Party (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.120 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Founders of the Vijayanagara Empire (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.121 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient Texts: Original of the Arabic Kalila wa Dimna (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.122 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Post-Independence India: Initiator of the Bhoodan Movement (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.123 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: River not crossed by Alexander's army (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.124 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Foreign Travellers: Traveller who described the Uluq and Dawa postal system (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.125 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Harappan Civilisation: Harappan site with fire altars (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.138 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Mauryan Administration: Match Mauryan officials with their functions (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.139 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient Texts: Author of the Hastyayurveda (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.140 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · British Expansion: Area gained by the British in the Treaty of Deogaon (official answer: A) PDF
NDA2021
- Q.101 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Harappan Civilisation: Harappan site specialising in shell objects (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.102 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Mauryan Empire: What was not part of Ashoka's dhamma (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.103 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Bhakti Movement: Statements on saguna bhakti traditions (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.104 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Chola Empire: Place without a Chola-patronised Shiva temple (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.105 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Colonial Economy: Statements on the Deccan Riots Commission (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.106 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Sufi Movement: Meaning of ziyarat (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.114 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Bhakti Movement: Preceptor of Mirabai (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.115 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Vijayanagara Empire: Statements on the Mahanavami Dibba (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.116 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Mughal Empire: Incorrect statement on the Ain-i-Akbari (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.117 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Socio-Religious Reforms: Statements on Swami Dayanand Saraswati (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.118 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Socio-Religious Reforms: Statements on Sayyid Ahmad Khan and his college (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.125 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Gandhian Era: Gandhi's first public appearance after South Africa (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.126 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · National Movement: Session where Purna Swaraj was demanded (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.129 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Body that adopted the US Declaration of Independence (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.130 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Head of the government ousted by Bolsheviks (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.71 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Constitutional Development: Statements on the Indian Councils Act 1861 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.72 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Socio-Religious Reforms: Aim of the Tattvabodhini Patrika (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.73 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Tribal Movements: Year Damin-i-koh was demarcated for Santhals (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.79 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Colonial Economy: Statements on the Factory Act 1881 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.80 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Gandhian Era: Statements on Gandhi's anti-untouchability campaign (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.81 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Socio-Religious Reforms: Beliefs of Paramhansa Mandali founders (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.82 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Revolt of 1857: Content of ishtahars issued in 1857 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.83 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Inventor of the flying shuttle (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.89 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · National Movement: Statements on the Karachi session resolution (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.90 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Colonial Administration: Statements on Macaulay's Law Commission (official answer: A) PDF
NDA2020
- Q.59 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Indian Nationalism: Head of the 1928 committee drafting a Constitution (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.60 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Tribal Movements: Incorrect statement about Jaipal Singh (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.82 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Gandhian Era: Where Gandhi first developed Satyagraha (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.83 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Civil Disobedience: Viceroy at the time of the Dandi March (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.84 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Civil Disobedience: US magazine that changed its view of the Dandi March (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.85 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Industrial Revolution: Year passenger trains began in England (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.102 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · World History: Conference where the UN Charter was signed (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.110 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Permanent Settlement: Effect of the Permanent Settlement on rural Bengal (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.111 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Tribal Movements: What Damin-i-Koh was (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.112 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Revolt of 1857: Correct statement about the 1857 revolt (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.113 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Post-Independence India: Not a Panchsheel principle (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.114 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Revolutionary Movements: Founder of Abhinav Bharat in 1904 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.115 (NDA (I & II) GAT) · MCQ · Constitutional Development: First concession that Indians frame their constitution (official answer: B) PDF
NDA2019
- Q.72 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · British Historians: Author of 'History of British India' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.73 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Revolt of 1857: Theme of the Azamgarh Proclamation of 1857 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.74 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Gandhian Era: Viceroy who remarked on Gandhi and the world (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.75 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Indian Nationalism: Businessman who favoured 'healthy capitalism' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.76 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Colonial Art: Painter of the artwork 'In Memoriam' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.92 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Quit India Movement: Historian calling Quit India a spontaneous revolution (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.93 (NDA (I) GAT) · Assertion-Reason · Mughal Empire: Statements on Abul Fazl and Akbar (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.94 (NDA (I) GAT) · Assertion-Reason · Peasant Movements: Statements on the 1936 Kisan manifesto (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.95 (NDA (I) GAT) · Assertion-Reason · Colonial Administration: Statements on the Indian Civil Service (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.125 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Indian National Congress: What the 1931 Karachi resolution advocated (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.126 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Napoleonic Wars: Battle followed by the Treaty of Schonbrunn (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.127 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Labour Movements: Statements about the New Model Unions (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.128 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Cold War: Aim of the Truman Doctrine of 1947 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.129 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Cold War: Statements on Burma at the United Nations (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.130 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Russian Revolution: Who presented the April Theses in 1917 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.134 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · British Expansion: Year of the Treaty of Yandabo (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.135 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient Indian Society: Form of marriage in the Manusmriti (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.107 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Gandhian Movements: Satyagraha struggle involving industrial workers (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.108 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Bhakti Movement: Statements on the Virashaiva tradition in Karnataka (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.109 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · British Expansion: Statements on Wellesley's administration (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.110 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Russian Revolution: Bolshevik and Menshevik views on party organisation (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.111 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · American Revolution: Decisions of the First Continental Congress, 1774 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.119 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · French Revolution: Incorrect statement about the Reign of Terror (official answer: dropped in the final key) PDF
- Q.120 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Indian Nationalism: First Indian to qualify for the Indian Civil Service (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.121 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Industrial Revolution: Why England industrialised first (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.123 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Post-Independence India: Education Minister in independent India's first cabinet (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.124 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Revolt of 1857: Leader of 1857 who died in exile (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.126 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Heritage Conservation: Location of the NRLC headquarters (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.134 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Social Reform Movements: Statements on Dayanand's ideas of social reform (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.135 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · American Revolution: Statements on the American War of Independence (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.141 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Mughal Administration: Incorrect statement about the ijarah system (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.142 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Swadeshi Movement: Principal of the National College, Calcutta (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.143 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Vijayanagara Empire: Surveyor who brought Hampi ruins to light in 1800 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.144 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Napoleonic Wars: Country not in the Third Coalition against Napoleon (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.145 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Foreign Travellers: Mismatched traveller and nationality (official answer: C) PDF
NDA2018
- Q.121 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: First user of 'Industrial Revolution' in English (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.122 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Correct statement about Olympe de Gouges (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.123 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Builder of the 'Miner's Friend' steam engine (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.124 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Incorrect statement on Renaissance humanism (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.125 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Who gifted Badshah Nama to King George III (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.126 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Mughal robe of honour award (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.127 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Founder of widow remarriage society in 1866 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.128 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: First landlord association in Calcutta (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.129 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Who introduced the Permanent Settlement (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.130 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Rebel leader at the battle of Chinhat (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.133 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Texts that are not historical biographies (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.134 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Match foreign travellers with home countries (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.135 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Clans included among Agnikula Rajputs (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.136 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Author of Humayun Nama (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.53 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Statement pair on Government of India Act 1935 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.54 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Statement pair on Mughal painting under Jahangir and Aurangzeb (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.124 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Crop introduced by the Portuguese (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.125 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Statements on Ayyavole and Manigramam guilds (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.126 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Correctly matched philosopher–doctrine pair (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.127 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Year of the Stamp Act Congress (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.128 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Italian traveller to Vijayanagara in 15th century (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.129 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: First factory of the French East India Company (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.131 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Match leaders with their books (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.137 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Leader who started the Indian Home Rule League (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.142 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Name of the English settlement in Madras (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.149 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Leader of the Theosophical Society (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.150 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Correct statement about Bipin Chandra Pal (official answer: B) PDF
NDA2017
- Q.111 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Incorrect statement about Krishnadevaraya (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.113 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Not a cause of the Revolt of 1857 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.114 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Not a feature of Subsidiary Alliance (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.128 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Author of 'The Philosophy of the Bomb' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.129 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Incorrect statement on the Chittagong group (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.130 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Significant feature of Quit India Movement (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.131 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Not a characteristic of Khilafat movement (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.132 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Colonial Economy: Not a feature of colonial railways (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.133 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Administrator who spoke on partition of Bengal (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.134 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Who launched Bardoli Satyagraha (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.135 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Princely state not supporting Congress in CDM (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.136 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Feature of Kandukuri Veeresalingam's thought (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.137 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Calligrapher titled Zarrin Kalam in Akbar's court (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.145 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Author of Badshah Nama (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.146 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Incorrect statement about Fatehpur Sikri (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.53 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: First user of 'Industrial Revolution' in English (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.54 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Author of 'The Indian Struggle, 1920–1934' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.55 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Incorrect statement about the 1896 Swadeshi campaign (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.56 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Association founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in London in 1866 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.86 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Correct statement about the Ilbert Bill (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.88 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Leader linked to Sanyasis and Fakirs in 1857 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.89 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Founder of the Awadh kingdom (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.90 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Founder of the Young Bengal Movement (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.91 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Incorrect statement about Quit India Movement (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.121 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Chronological order of four movements (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.122 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Travelogue describing Muhammad bin Tughlaq's reign (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.123 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Saint who was not a Chishti Sufi (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.124 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Centenary celebrated in April 2017 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.134 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Art and Culture: Statements on Nagara temple architecture (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.135 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Edict showing Ashoka's link with Buddhism (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.136 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: What the Cabinet Mission Plan envisaged (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.150 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Mesopotamian name for the Harappan region (official answer: B) PDF
NDA2016
- Q.136 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Act first allowing Indians to higher posts (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.137 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Statements about Rashtrakuta kings (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.139 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: First act of the Revolt of 1857 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.140 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Statements about Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.143 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Calcutta Madrassa and Benaras Sanskrit College founders (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.144 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Medieval India: Statements about Sufism in India (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.145 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Thinkers and movements influencing Gandhi (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.146 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Statements about the Arthashastra (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.149 (NDA (I) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Statements about the Brahmo Samaj (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.55 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Statement pair on revival of Rome in the 15th century (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.56 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Statement pair on Chartism in Britain (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.83 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Features of utilitarian ideology (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.84 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Inventor of the powerloom (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.85 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Originator of Subsidiary Alliance (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.86 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Statements on Periplus and Erythraean Sea (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.114 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Features of Lenin's New Economic Policy (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.115 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Reasons for British defeat in American War of Independence (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.116 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Impact of the Industrial Revolution in England (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.117 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Colonial Economy: Statements on British colonialism and raw cotton (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.118 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Author of Neel Darpan (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.119 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern India: Organisation started by Jyotirao Phule in 1873 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.120 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Who popularised the term Industrial Revolution (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.121 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Modern World: Main workers in 19th-century Japanese industries (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.149 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Ancient India: Civilisation that used cylindrical stone seals (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.150 (NDA (II) GAT) · MCQ · Freedom Movement: Statements on the Civil Disobedience Movement (official answer: A) PDF
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FAQ
How many History and Freedom Movement questions come in NDA?
In the official papers we tagged: 19 in 2026 (2 papers), 26 in 2025 (2 papers), 28 in 2024 (2 papers), 31 in 2023 (2 papers), 30 in 2022 (2 papers), 25 in 2021 (2 papers), 13 in 2020 (1 paper), 35 in 2019 (2 papers), 27 in 2018 (2 papers), 32 in 2017 (2 papers) and 25 in 2016 (2 papers). That is 291 questions in all, about 14% of General Knowledge.
Which History and Freedom Movement topics repeat in NDA?
Asked in the most papers: Freedom Movement, Medieval India, Ancient India. The concept table lists every one with its count.
Are these official NDA questions?
Yes. Every question is from an official NDA paper hosted on our year pages. The one-line summaries are ours; open the PDF linked beside each question for the full text.