More Questions on British Rule
- Q. Which of the following events made the English East India Company the legitimate masters of the Bengal Suba?
A)Battle of Plassey, 1757
B)Battle of Buxar, 1764
C)Farrukh Siyar's Farman, 1717
D)Ibrahim Khan's Farman, 1690
Answer: Battle of Buxar, 1764
- Q. In 1831 Bentinck signed a treaty with Ranjit Singh to protect the British territories from
A)Pindari menace
B)Russian menace
C)Rohelas
D)Attack by Burmese
Answer: Russian menace
- Q. Who tried to rediscover India’s past?
A)Max Muller
B)Lord Lytton
C)S. N. Banerjee
D)Gokahale
Answer: Max Muller
- Q. __________, a judge of the Supreme Court founded the Asiatic society of Bengal in 1784 A.D.
A)Warren Hastings
B)Sir William Jones
C)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
D)Lord Macaulay
Answer: Sir William Jones
- Q. Which of the following Government of India Act introduced the diarchy system in the provinces of India?
A)Government of India Act, 1919
B)Government of India Act, 1909
C)Government of India Act, 1935
D)None of these
Answer: Government of India Act, 1919
- Q. In 1612 __________established a trading post in Gujarat
A)French
B)British
C)Spain
D)Dutch
Answer: British
- Q. August Offer 1940 was made by the Viceroy
A)Linlithgow
B)Willingdon
C)Minto
D)Lytton
Answer: Linlithgow
- Q. The Indian Civil Service Act was passed during the Viceroyalty of
A)Canning
B)Elgin
C)Minto
D)Lytton
Answer: Canning
- Q. The First Opium War started__________
A)1736
B)1729
C)1839
D)1939
Answer: 1839
- Q. The British Governor General and Viceroy who served for the longest period in India was
A)Lord Dalhousie
B)Lord Irwin
C)Lord Curzon
D)Lord Linlithgow
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
- Q. Dadabhai Naoroji’s book ‘poverty and un British rule in India’ published in __________ analysed the nature of the British rule in India
A)1901
B)1898
C)1908
D)1946
Answer: 1901
- Q. Who among the following Viceroys became a victim of one of the convicts during his visit to the Andamans?
A)Mayo
B)Curzon
C)Ripon
D)Lytton
Answer: Mayo
- Q. Nana Sahib the adopted son of Peshwa Baji Rao II had become a great enemy of the British because
A)He had lost his title
B)The Queen had humiliated him
C)The British had stopped his pension
D)His estate had been snatched from him
Answer: The British had stopped his pension
- Q. When the East India Company was formed, the Mughal emperor in India was
A)Humayun
B)Jahangir
C)Aurangzeb
D)Akbar
Answer: Akbar
- Q. We do not seek our independence out of Britain’s ruin’ said
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Gokhale
D)Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. The process of the introduction of education in English had been initiated in India by Lord
A)Bentick
B)Curzon
C)Hastings
D)Macaulay
Answer: Macaulay
- Q. Who was the prime minister of Britain at the time of commencement of the Government of India Act, 1858?
A)Russell II
B)Lord Palmerston
C)Edward Smith-Stanley
D)Benjamin Disraeli
Answer: Lord Palmerston
- Q. The British attitude towards granting India independence changed partly owing to the
A)Impact of World War II
B)Change in the government of the UK
C)Growing tide of Indian Nationalism
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Who propounded the theory of ‘Economic Drain of India’ during British imperialism?
A)Dadabhai Naroji
B)W. C. Bannerji
C)Gopalkrishna Gokhale
D)Gandhiji
Answer: Dadabhai Naroji
- Q. In November 1781, Sir Eyre Coote defeated __________ at Porto Nova
A)Marthanda Verma
B)Hyder Ali
C)British
D)Tipu Sultan
Answer: Hyder Ali
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