More Questions on British Rule
- Q. I. Bengal Nawab was captured and put to death by Mir Jafar in the Battle of Plassey, 1757. II. After Mir Qasim, Nizam-ud-daula was made the Nawab of Bengal. III. The same person acted as the deputy Dewan on behalf of the East Indian Company and as Deputy Subedar on behalf of the Bengal Nawab. IV. In 1767, British Government ordered the East India Company to pay £400,000 per year. Which of these statement(s) is/are correct related to the Bengal Politics during the 18th century?
A)I & III
B)I & II
C)II & IV
D)III & IV
Answer: III & IV
- Q. The Simla Conference called by Viceroy Lord Wavell (to discuss the so-called Wavell Plan) in June 1945 failed on account of
A)the demand of the Congress to include the members of all communities in their quota to the Executive Council
B)Jinnah's demand that the Muslim League alone would nominate Muslim members to the Executive Council
C)the demand of the Scheduled Castes to reserved seats in the Executive Council in Proportion to their population
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- 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. Who among the following revolutionaries was executed by the British
A)Chandrashekhar Azad
B)Jitin Das
C)Rajguru
D)Kalpana - Dutt
Answer: Rajguru
- 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. 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. The British colonial policies in India proved most ruinous for Indian
A)trade
B)agriculture
C)industry
D)handicrafts
Answer: handicrafts
- 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. Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance against the East India Company dominated in __________
A)Kerala
B)Gujarat
C)Karnataka
D)Bengal
Answer: Bengal
- Q. Who put on the statute book two obnoxious measures the Vernacular press Act and the Indian Arms Act
A)Lytton
B)Lord Ripon
C)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
D)Queen Victoria
Answer: Lytton
- Q. Which of the following British official intiated the Doctrine of Lapse?
A)Lord Auckland
B)Lord Wellesley
C)Lord Dalhousie
D)Warren Hastings
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
- Q. Lord Cornwallis had introduced the __________ land tenure system
A)Ryotwari
B)Zamindari
C)Mahalwari
D)Inamdari
Answer: Zamindari
- Q. The greatest contribution of the British rule to the growth of India nationalism was the __________
A)Racial arrogance of the British
B)Introduction of western education in India
C)Denial of Higher Jobs to deserving Indians
D)Queen's proclamation of 1858
Answer: Introduction of western education in India
- Q. Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor of __________ in 1772
A)Madras
B)Bengal
C)Bombay
D)Delhi
Answer: Bengal
- Q. Punjab was annexed to the British empire during the reign of Governor General
A)Lord Dalhousie
B)Lord Bentinck
C)Lord Cornwallis
D)Lord Canning
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
- 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 British Government intervened in the affairs of the Company and passed an Act in 1773 A.D., known as the
A)Pitt's India Act
B)Regulating Act
C)Charter Act
D)Company Act
Answer: Regulating Act
- Q. On imprisonment in 1908 by the British, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was in
A)Rangoon
B)Andaman and Nicobar
C)Singapore
D)Mandalay
Answer: Mandalay
- Q. In March 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed the Cripps Mission to resolve Indian political crisis because
A)of the gravity of the Japanese war menace on India's borders
B)he was under pressure from the US President Roosevelt
C)both A and B above
D)of INA's initial success on India's eastern borders
Answer: both A and B above
- 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
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