More Questions on British Rule
- Q. Which of the following authorised the British Government to imprison any person without trial and conviction in a court of law
A)Government of India Act of 1935
B)Rowlatt Act of 1919
C)Indian Council Act of 1909
D)Government of India Act of 1919
Answer: Rowlatt Act of 1919
- Q. The Mutiny was brought to an end with the fall of __________ into the hands of the British in India
A)Awadh
B)Meerut
C)Gwalior
D)Rohilkhand
Answer: Gwalior
- Q. British Indian Association was founded on October 29, 1851 at__________
A)Pune
B)Calcutta
C)Madras
D)Bombay
Answer: Calcutta
- Q. An ambassador of the British King James I, who secured favourable privileges for the East India Company from Emperor Jahangir, was
A)Henry Middleton
B)Hawkins
C)Thomas Roe
D)Josiah Child
Answer: Thomas Roe
- Q. Robert Clive, the Governor General of the __________
A)French
B)Dutch
C)British
D)Portuguese
Answer: British
- Q. Which of the following is not among the regions where the Britishers had first set up trading posts?
A)Goa
B)Bengal
C)Coromandel Coast
D)Gujarat
Answer: Goa
- Q. The Treaty of Lahore was signed between the Sikhs and the British in India in the year
A)1846
B)1836
C)1856
D)1866
Answer: 1846
- Q. In the 18th Century the Royal prerogative in the affairs of the East India Company was controlled by
A)The Indian Legislature
B)The Viceroy's Council
C)The Parliament in England
D)The Secretary of State
Answer: The Parliament in England
- Q. Gandhi had been provoked into crusading for the lot of the Asians in South Africa by the British law called the Act
A)Blacks' Registration
B)Apartheid
C)cl Asiatic Registration
D)Subcitizens' Licence
Answer: cl Asiatic Registration
- Q. Joseph François Dupleix was the commander of the __________ forces in India
A)British
B)French
C)American
D)Dutch
Answer: French
- Q. Seringapatnam was the capital of __________
A)Tipu Sultan
B)Pazhassi Raja
C)Kurumbranad Raja
D)Srimoolam Tirunal
Answer: Tipu Sultan
- Q. The first Bengali Drama, written to highlight the brutality of the British indigo planters, was
A)Neel Darpan
B)Rast Goftar
C)Shome Prakash
D)None of the above
Answer: Neel Darpan
- 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. When the East India Company came into existence, England was ruled by the__________
A)Stuarts
B)Hanoverians
C)Normans
D)Tudors
Answer: Stuarts
- Q. During the Second World War the British forces were defeated at __________
A)Dunkirk
B)London
C)Paris
D)Liverpool
Answer: Dunkirk
- Q. As a result of the partition of Bengal announced by Lord Curzon in 1905, Bengal was partitioned into two provinces of
A)Bengal and Eastern Bengal & Assam
B)East Bengal and West Bengal
C)Bengal and Assam
D)Bengal and Odisha and East Bengal and Assam
Answer: Bengal and Eastern Bengal & Assam
- Q. Who convinced the British in 1829 to outlaw Sati?
A)Swami Dayananda Saraswati
B)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C)Lokmanya Tilak
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- 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. The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was
A)Womesh Chandra Banerjee
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Surendranath Banerjee
D)Pheroze Shah Mehta
Answer: Womesh Chandra Banerjee
- Q. Who said that the exploitative nature of British rule was ‘Bleeding India White’?
A)Dadabhai Naoroji
B)Tilak
C)Hume
D)Annie Besant
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
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