More Questions on British Rule
- Q. The Act constituting the first legislative interference by the British Parliament in the affairs of India was the
A)Pitt's India Act, 1784
B)Fox's India Act, 1783
C)Regulating Act, 1773
D)Declaratory Act, 1781
Answer: Regulating Act, 1773
- Q. The First Opium War started__________
A)1736
B)1729
C)1839
D)1939
Answer: 1839
- Q. Who among the following British persons admitted the Revolt of 1857 as a national revolt?
A)Lord Canning
B)Lord Dalhousie
C)Lord Ellenborough
D)Disraeli
Answer: Disraeli
- Q. The first strategically placed factory that the Britishers had fortified was at
A)Bombay
B)Surat
C)Masulipatnam
D)Madras
Answer: Madras
- Q. India became independent during the vice royalty of
A)Wellesley
B)William Bentinck
C)Wavell
D)Mountbatten
Answer: Mountbatten
- Q. Who among of the following was the Viceroy of India when Indian University Act, 1904 was passed?
A)Lord Lansdowne
B)Lord Dufferin
C)Lord Minto
D)Lord Curzon
Answer: Lord Curzon
- Q. Charles Wood’s Despatch__________
A)1684
B)1554
C)1784
D)1854
Answer: 1854
- 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. During the period of which Governor General Viceroy was the Indian Civil Service introduced?
A)Curzon
B)Dalhousie
C)Bentick
D)Conrnwallis
Answer: Conrnwallis
- Q. When did the British Govt. start ruling India directly?
A)After the Battle of Panipat
B)After the Battle of Plassey
C)After the war of Mysore
D)After Sepoy Mutiny
Answer: After Sepoy Mutiny
- Q. On which day had premier Attlee conceded that the British would quit India by June, 1948?
A)August 15, 1947
B)January 26, 1947
C)January 26, 1948
D)February 20, 1947
Answer: February 20, 1947
- 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. 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. Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by __________
A)Sir John Shore
B)Lord Wellesley
C)Robert Clive
D)Lord Dalhousie
Answer: Lord Wellesley
- Q. Who among the following revolutionaries was executed by the British
A)Chandrashekhar Azad
B)Jitin Das
C)Rajguru
D)Kalpana - Dutt
Answer: Rajguru
- Q. The Governor General of India who initiated the introduction of English in India was
A)Lord Macaulay
B)Lord Curzon
C)Lord Bentinck
D)Lord Hastings
Answer: Lord Bentinck
- Q. Who was Lord Morley?
A)Viceroy of India
B)Secretary of the state
C)Governor General of India
D)None of the above
Answer: Secretary of the state
- 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. 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. Who was the first Governor General of Bengal?
A)William Bentinck
B)Robert Clive
C)Warren Hasting
D)Col. Sanders
Answer: Warren Hasting
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