History Questions & Answers for IAS Exam

UPSC exam is considered to be one of the toughest exams conducted in the country and the preparation for the same requires thorough preparation and deep knowledge of various subjects included in the IAS syllabus. History constitutes to be one of the most important subjects for both prelims and mains examination.

Aspirants looking for brief answers to clear their queries regarding the wide-ranging ancient, medieval and modern history questions have landed at the correct place. We, at BYJU’S, bring to you direct, brief and crisp answers to questions based on history topics for your IAS Exam preparation.

Given below is the list of questions and candidates can find their answers for a better and easy understanding of concepts, with a special focus on General Studies I paper for the mains examination.

Sri Narayana Guru was a philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer in India. He led a reform a successful movement against the injustice...
The famous statement of Shri Narayan Guru ‘One Caste One Religion and One God to Mankind’. It was made in 1921,in the All Kerala...
Sri Narayana Guru preached the doctrine of 'One caste, One religion, One God.' It was his atheist disciples, Sahadaran Ayyapan, who changed into...
The servants of India Society was started by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1905 to unite and train Indians of different ethnicities and religions in...
The Satyashodhak Samaj was a social reform society founded by Jyotirao Phule on 24 September 1873.   It espoused a mission of education...
Arya Samaj was a  vigorous reform movement of modern Hinduism, founded in 1875 by Dayananda Sarasvati. It’s aim was to reestablish the...
The father of the Indian social revolution is widely attributed to be Mahatma Jotirao Phule. He was a social activist, thinker, anti-caste social...
Some of the contributions of Gopal Hari Deshmukh were as follows: He promoted emancipation (liberation) and education of women, and wrote...
Gopal Hari Deshmukh was popularly known as Lokhitwad. He was an activist, thinker, social reformer and writer from Maharashtra who fought against...
Gopal Hari Deshmukh wrote Shatpatre in the weekly known as Prabhakar.  He wrote many articles and essays in the weekly published in...
Gopal Hari Deshmukh advocated gender equality through his writing in Shatapatre. He was an activist, thinker, social reformer that advocated for...
Gopal Hari Deshmukh was a social reformer from Maharashtra popularly known as Lokhitwadi. It was the pen name he wrote under for the weekly known...
Gopal Hari Deshmukh composed articles on social change in Maharashtra in the weekly paper Prabhakar using the pen name ‘Lokhitwadi’....
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule was an social activist, thinker, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra.  Along with his wife...
Jyotirao Phule, who was 12 at the time, was married to Savitribai, who was at the age of nine in the year 1840. Although they would have no...
Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi along with Kadambini Ganguly, was one of the first female doctors of India. She was the first woman from the erstwhile...
Savitribai Phule was a social reformer, educationalist and poet is regarded as one of the first female teachers of India. Along with her husband...
The first newspaper in Maharashtra was Darpan. It was started on 6 January 1832 by Balshastri Jambhekar. The paper was bilingual fortnightly and...
The Nibandhmala was written by Vishnushastri Chiplunkar and the Shatapatre was written by Lokahitawadi alias Gopal Hari Deshmukh. Both commented...
Gopal Hari Deshmukh wrote the Satapatra series during the 19th century. The Satapatra was a series of patriotic literature that called for social...