UPSC Prelims Ancient and Medieval History Test (GS Sectional 4)

Product Details

The UPSC Prelims Ancient and Medieval History Test covers Indian history from the Stone Age to the regional states of the eighteenth century. In line with the UPSC approach, the questions focus less on isolated dates and more on identifying which ruler, text, sect or style belongs to which period. Religion, society, art and architecture are tested alongside the political history of each age.

Topics Covered in the Ancient and Medieval History Test

• Prehistory and the Harappan civilisation
• The Vedic age, the Mahajanapadas, Buddhism and Jainism
• The Mauryas and the post-Mauryan kingdoms
• The Guptas and early medieval India
• The Delhi Sultanate and the Vijayanagara and Bahmani kingdoms
• The Mughals, the Marathas and the eighteenth-century states

Modern India, and art and culture as a whole, are in their own sectional tests.

What You Get

• Questions booklet: 100 questions, 200 marks, two hours, in English and Hindi, with an answer sheet to print at the end.
• Answers and Explanations booklet: The answer key, then every question solved: each statement and each option is marked correct or incorrect with the reason, followed by the sources for the facts used.
• Marking as in the Prelims: 2 marks for a correct answer, and 0.66 (one-third of 2) deducted for a wrong one.
• Your copy: PDFs licensed to you, with your name and order number printed on every page.
• Difficulty: 30 easy, 36 medium, 24 hard and 10 very hard questions.

All tests are provided as downloadable PDF booklets, which you can print and attempt on paper or read and answer directly on your screen.

Sources and References

Every question and explanation is prepared from official and standard sources, among them:

• Press Information Bureau (PIB)
• Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
• NCERT textbooks for Classes VI to XII (current editions)
• NIOS course material