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History of India | Modern History | Miscellaneous

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1. Kol Mutiny of 1831 under Buddho Bhagat took place in which of the following regions?

Kutch
Singhbhum
Western Ghats
Satara

2. Who had merged Sikkim in India?

Lord Hastings
Lord William Bentinck
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Auckland

3. Which one of the following foreign travellers elaborately discussed about diamonds and diamond mines of India?

Francois Bernier
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
Jean de Thevenot
Abbe Barthelemy Carre

4. Bombay (nor Mumbai) acquired by the English originally belonged to the

Portuguese
Dutch
Danes
French

5. British concluded Treaty of Bassein on 31st December, 1802 with

Sindhias
Holkars
Bhonsles
Peshwas

6. Subsidiary Alliance was a system devised by

Lord Wellesley
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Canning
Lord Ripon

7. Under whose Covernor Generalship the Railways were introduced in India?

Lord Wellesley
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Canning
Lord Dalhousie

8. Which among the following Viceroys was associated with the 'Ilbert Bill Controversy'?

Lord Curzon
Lord Lytton
Lord Ripon
Lord Hardinge

9. Who among the following introduced the Permanent Settlement of Bengal in 1793?

Lord Cornwallis
Lord Ripon
Robert Clive
John Adam

10. Name the first major voluntary association representing primarily Indian landlord interests that was set up in Calcutta in 1851?

British Indian Association
Landholder's Society
Madras Native Association
Bombay Association

11. What was the real intention of British Government behind the partition of Bengal?

To bring administrative efficiency
To stem rising tide of nationalism
To provide separate province to muslims
To provide growth to Bengali literature

12. Who among the following was the founder of the Young Bengal Movement?

Henry Vivian Derozio
David Hare
Dwarkanath Tagore
Prasanna Kumar Tagore

13. Which colonial administrator made the following declaration about the partition of Bengal in 1904? "Bental united is a power. Bengal divided will pull in different ways. That is perfectly true and one of the merits of the scheme"?

Lord Curzon
H.H. Risley
Lord Minto
Sir Lancelot Hare

14. The dual system of governance in Bengal was enforced by

Warren Hastings
William Bentinck
Robert Clive
Lord Curzon

15. Which one of the following was NOT a feature of the Subsidiary Alliance of Lord Wellesley?

The British were responsible for protecting the ally from any external threats
All internal threats were to be handled by the ally alone, with no help from the British
The ally was to provide resources for maintaining a British armed contingent stationed in its territory
They ally could not enter into any agreement with other rulers without the permission of the British

16. The Ryotwari experiment in land revenue was started by

Henry Dundas
Alexander Reed
David Ricardo
Mountstuart Exphinstone

17. Where did the French East India Company first establish its factory in India?

Calicut
Surat
Pondicherry
Masulipatnam

18. Which one of the following crops was introduced by the Portuguese in India?

Opium
Coffee
Betel leaf
Chili

19. Which of the following consequences of the British rule did not affect the Muslim middle classes?

The tyranny of the British Indigo Planters
The disbandment of the Nawab's forces
The abolition of the rural police
The resumptions of Imam's lands which provided substenance to the learned

20. The famous Battle of Wandiwash in 1760 was fought by the British against whom?

The French
Spain
Mysore
Carnatic

21. What was the date of 'Queens' proclamation?

1st November, 1858
10th May, 1857
29th March, 1857
11th February, 1860

22. The Bangalore disturbances of 1928, also known as Ganapati Galabhe and Hindu-Muslim Gharshane were a series of Hindu-Muslim clashes which took place in the city of Bangalore over construction of a niche on a Ganesh idol in a school premises. Maharaja of Mysore constituted a committee to enquire into the event. Who was the head of the committee?

Sir Mirza Ismail
Sir M. Visvesvaraya
K.T. Bhashyam
Albion Banerjee

23. By which of the following regulation British East India Company's trade monopoly in India was abolished?

Charter Act of 1793
Charter Act of 1813
Charter Act of 1833
Charter Act of 1853

24. The chief Dutch export from the Coromondel Ports was

Textiles
Indigo
Spices
Saltpetre

25. The East India Company (EIC) was also known informally as which of the following?

Daniels Company
John Company
Company of Interlopers
Job Charlock Company

26. The Maharaja of Mysore appointed which Committee in 1918 to investigate and report on the steps- to be taken to encourage members of the important committees other than the Brahmins to seek employment under the government?

L.G. Havanur Committee
Nagana Gowda Committee
Mecland Committee
Leslie Miller Committee

27. Which was the first Christian missionary to start a school in Mysore?

Sewell Missionary
Mysore Missionary
Wesleyan Missionary
Basil Missionary

28. Who is associated with introduction of Local Self Government in India?

Lord Dalhousie
Lord Lytton
Lord Ripon
Lord Curzon

29. A brilliant and patriotic Anglo-Indian teacher, Henry Vivian Derozeo, was the founder of

The Young Bengal Movement
The Indian National Union
The Servants of India Society
The British India Association

30. Which Act did change the designation of Governor General of Bengal to Governor General of India?

Regulating Act of 1773
Charter Act of 1833
Government of India Act of 1858
Government of India Act of 1935

31. During the British rule the only British King to visit Indian and hold his magnificent Durbar, was

Edward VII
George V
James II
Edward VI

32. When did the Company lose its monopoly of Indian trade which was thrown open to all Britons?

1813
1833
1853
1793

33. Which of the following Act provided for communal representation in British India?

Indian Councils Act, 1892
Minto-Morley Reforms, 1909
Montague-Chelmsford Reforms, 1919
Govt. of India Act, 1935

34. Who was the Governor General during the annulment of 'Sati'?

Lord Bentinck
Lord Hastings
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Canning

35. Who was the author of the book "The Problems of the East"?

Lawrence
Lytton
Curzon
Churchill

36. In which of the following year Chhattisgarh became a division of the central provinces?

1860
1862
1863
1865

37. After Bengal, the English secured the rights of duty free trade in the dominions of

Raja of Benaras
Nawab of Awadh
The Nizam of Hyderabad
The Jats of Bharatpur

38. The English established their first factory in India at

Bombay
Surat
Sutanuti
Madras

39. The place of English East Indian Company settlement in Madras was known as

Fort William
Fort St. George
Elphinstone Circle
Marble Palace

40. The European Organisation in India which launched agitation against the Ilbert Bill was

European Defence Association
Indo-British Association
Anti Ilbert Bill League
European Rights Front

41. British concluded Treaty of Surat in 1775 with

Narayan Rao
Madhav Rao
Raghunath Rao
Vinayak Rao

42. Which of the following land revenue settlement was first to have concluded with the village community?

Permanent Settlement
Mahalwari Settlement
Ryotwari Settlement
None of the above

43. What was the title of the first newspaper published by James Augustus Hickey?

The Bengal Journal
The Calcutta Chronicle
The Madras Courier
The Bengal Gazette

44. Who was the Chairman of the First Famine Commission in 1880?

Sir Richard Strachey
Sir Mac Donnel
J. B. Lyall
T. Morrisson

45. Who founded the Adi Brahmasamaj?

Devendranath Tagore
Keshav Chandra Sen
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Ravindranath Tagore

46. Who was the founder of the 'Asiatic Society of Bengal'?

Jonathan Duncan
Sir William Jones
Warren Hastings
William Bentinck

47. At which place did Raja Ranjit Singh set up the Adalat-i-Ala?

Amritsar
Lahore
Firozpur
Multan

48. In which year the book 'Poverty and Unbritish Rule in India' was published?

1900 A.D.
1901 A.D.
1902 A.D.
1903 A.D.

49. In India the First Municipal Corporation was set up in which one among the following places?

Calcutta
Madras
Bombay
Delhi

50. The Rajamundri Social Reform Association to encourage widow remarriage was founded in 1871 by

Veeresalingam
K. Ramakrishan Pillai
K. T. Telang
Gopalachariar

51. When was the University of Calcutta established?

1911
1817
1854
1857

52. The Partition of Bengal was annulled in

1905
1911
1901
1947

53. Pakistan Resolution was taken on

16th August, 1946
26th January, 1935
14th April, 1942
23rd March, 1940

54. New Delhi, the new Capital of India was inaugurated by Lord Irwin in the year.

1905
1911
1931
1947

55. The Nayankara system is associated with

The Bahmani Kingdom
The Chola Empire
The Maratha Kingdom
The Vijayanagara Empire

56. Montague Chelmesford reforms which formed the base of Government of India Act, 1919, introduced which of the following in India?

Self Governance
Dyarchy
Indian Administrative Service
Indian Police Service

57. The Peshwa accepted the Subsidiary Alliance with the British by

Treaty of Purandhar
Treaty of Bassein
Treaty of Salbai
Treaty of Surji Arjangaon

58. The National Council for Education was set up in the year

1906
1908
1909
1911

59. The English East India Company ceased to be a trading company by which of the following legislations?

Pitts India Act of 1784
Charter Act of 1833
Charter Act of 1813
Government of India Act, 1858

60. The Constituent Assembly was setup under the

Cripps Mission
Wavell Plan
Cabinet Mission Plan
Nehru Report

61. Which European power was the last to reach India?

Portuguese
The Dutch
British
French

62. Vasco da Gama, the sailor was a

Portuguese
American
German
Italian

63. Aurangzeb sent Mukarrab Khan against

Shahji Bhonsle
Shivaji
Sambhaji
Shahu

64. Tobacco was introduced into India by the

Chinese
Portuguese
English
French

65. The Portuguese possessions Goa, Daman and Diu were liberated in

1961
1971
1981
1951