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. Gandhiji’s famous Quit India movement call to the British was given in
A)1941
B)1943
C)1942
D)1940
Answer: 1942
- Q. The Company lost all its administrative powers__________
A)By the Government of India Act of 1758
B)By the Government of India Act of 1658
C)By the Government of India Act of 1858
D)By the Government of India Act of 1958
Answer: By the Government of India Act of 1858
- Q. The land was owned by temples known as __________
A)Brahmaswam
B)Dewaswam
C)Cherikkal
D)Kanam
Answer: Dewaswam
- Q. When the Congress Ministries were formed in the provinces in June 1937, the Viceroy of India was
A)Lord Irwin
B)Lord Willingdon
C)Lord Linlithgow
D)Viscount Wavell
Answer: Lord Linlithgow
- Q. Where had civil rebellions against the British initially started?
A)Bengal and Bihar
B)Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
C)Odisha
D)Madras and Calcutta
Answer: Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
- 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. India became independent during the vice royalty of
A)Wellesley
B)William Bentinck
C)Wavell
D)Mountbatten
Answer: Mountbatten
- Q. Despite holding a monopoly, the East India Company had faced competition from what it had termed as the ‘interlopers’ represented by the
A)Indigenous merchants
B)Portuguese
C)British free merchants
D)Dutch
Answer: British free merchants
- Q. The violent Mappilas stormed the bungalow of the District Magistrate . . . . . . and murdered him in 1855
A)William Logan
B)H.V. Connolly
C)Lord Ripond
D)Gladstone
Answer: H.V. Connolly
- Q. The transfer of Government from the ‘Company’ to the ‘Crown’ was pronounced by Lord Canning (November 1, 1858) at
A)Delhi
B)Calcutta
C)Patna
D)Allahabad
Answer: Allahabad
- Q. Seringapatnam was the capital of __________
A)Tipu Sultan
B)Pazhassi Raja
C)Kurumbranad Raja
D)Srimoolam Tirunal
Answer: Tipu Sultan
- Q. The first Indian to be elected as a member of the British House of Commons was
A)Surendra Nath Banerjee
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Dr. BR Ambedkar
D)C. R. Das
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. Assertion (A): The announcement of the Simon Commission aroused widespread Indian resentment. Reason (R): The British Government in defiance of the opinion of all parties in India had deliberately decided to appoint an all British Commission
A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R is true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: Both A and R is true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Q. Which of the following act of India ensured the partition 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, 1935
- 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
- Q. Which of the following is not correct about Montegu- Chelmsford’s Reform & Government of India Act, 1919?
A)In this Act the central legislative council was replaced by two houses-the imperial legislative assembly and the council of state
B)It changed the administrative system in India
C)Education and public health were placed under charge of ministers responsible to the legislature
D)All of the above are incorrect
Answer: All of the above are incorrect
- Q. In 1614 Sir Thomas Roe was instructed by __________ to visit the court of Jahangir, the Mughal emperor of India
A)Babur
B)James I
C)Shajahan
D)Humayun
Answer: James I
- Q. At which place in Bengal was the East India Company given permission to trade and build a factory by the Mughals in 1651 ?
A)Qasim Bazar
B)Calcutta
C)Singur
D)Burdwan
Answer: Qasim Bazar
- Q. The Non-Cooperation Movement under Gandhi was in full swing during the Viceroyalty of
A)Irwin
B)Chelmsford
C)Reading
D)Hardinge
Answer: Reading
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