More Questions on British Rule
- Q. The English East Company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of __________ in 1612
A)Plassey
B)Buxar
C)Swally
D)Trafalgar
Answer: Swally
- Q. Who was the Viceroy when Delhi became the capital of British India?
A)Lord Minto
B)Lord Curzon
C)Lord Hardinge
D)Lord Wavell
Answer: Lord Hardinge
- Q. In Bengal, the East India Company’s headquarters were located at
A)Fort william
B)Fort St George
C)Fort St David
D)Shantiniketan
Answer: Fort william
- Q. __________ , the viceroy of India decided to partition Bengal for administrative purposes, creating a new province of East Bengal and Assam, with a population of 31 million people and with its capital at Dhaka
A)Lord Rippon
B)Lord Curzon
C)Lord Hastings
D)Wellesley
Answer: Lord Curzon
- Q. Who was the Viceroy at the time of Quit India Movement?
A)Lord Wavell
B)Lord Mountbatten
C)Lord Linlithgow
D)Lord Irwin
Answer: Lord Linlithgow
- 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. Which Indian ruler had requested Napoleon for help in driving the British away from India?
A)Jai Singh
B)Shivaji
C)Tipu Sultan
D)Rani of Jhansi
Answer: Tipu Sultan
- Q. __________ started an all-India campaign for restoring the entrance age of 21 and for simultaneous ICS examination in India
A)S. N. Banerjee
B)Gokahale
C)Tilak
D)William Logan
Answer: S. N. Banerjee
- Q. Lord Mountbatten had replaced Lord __________ as the viceroy of India in 1947
A)Lytton
B)Wavell
C)Linlithgow
D)Cornwallis
Answer: Wavell
- Q. Who tried to rediscover India’s past?
A)Max Muller
B)Lord Lytton
C)S. N. Banerjee
D)Gokahale
Answer: Max Muller
- Q. The Ilbert Bill introduced In Lord Ripon’s reign is significant because
A)it put restrictions on the vernacular press
B)it limited the Britishers political authority
C)it debarred Indians from entering the civil services
D)it removed racial discrimination from the judicial services
Answer: it removed racial discrimination from the judicial services
- Q. Select the correct chronological sequence of the following events? I. Appointment of the Simon Commission. II. Formation of the first Labour Government in Britain. III. Submission of the Nehru report. IV. Inauguration of the First Round Table Conference
A)I, III, IV & II
B)II, I, III & IV
C)I, II, IV & III
D)II, IV, I & III
Answer: II, I, III & IV
- Q. Queen Victoria’s famous proclamation, transferring authority from the East India Company to the Crown , was made from
A)Calcutta
B)London
C)Delhi
D)Allahabad
Answer: Allahabad
- Q. The British colonial policies in India proved most ruinous for Indian
A)trade
B)agriculture
C)industry
D)handicrafts
Answer: handicrafts
- Q. Who among the following Indian cracks the British Indian Civil Services Examination in the first time of Indian History?
A)R. C. Dutt
B)Satyendranath Tagore
C)Behari Lal Gupta
D)Surendranath Banerjee
Answer: Satyendranath Tagore
- Q. Who was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?
A)GopalaKrishna Gokhale
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Bipin Chandra Pal
D)Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. The Permanent Settlement was enforced on__________
A)1793
B)1693
C)1893
D)1933
Answer: 1793
- Q. British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic announcement of the end of British rule in India (and transfer of power to responsible Indian hands by a date not later than June1948) on
A)February 20, 1947
B)May 16, 1946
C)March 10, 1946
D)December 31, 1946
Answer: February 20, 1947
- Q. Gandhiji’s famous Quit India movement call to the British was given in
A)1941
B)1943
C)1942
D)1940
Answer: 1942
- Q. Under the Government of India __________, the British Crown assumed direct administration of India in the new British Raj
A)Act of 1758
B)Act of 1658
C)Act of 1858
D)Act of 1947
Answer: Act of 1858
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