Indian National Movement | Constitution Development of India

Indian National Movement | Constitution Development of India

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1. In which year Regulating Act was passed?

1753
1757
1764
1773

2. In which of the following Acts for the first time provision was made for the post of Governor-General of Bengal?

Regulating Act, 1773
Pitt's Indian Act, 1784
Charter Act of 1813
Act of 1833

3. The Regulating Act was passed in

1773
1774
1785
1793

4. In which year was the Regulation Act passed?

1757 A.D.
1765 A.D.
1773 A.D.
1793 A.D.

5. Under the provision of Regulating Act, à Provincial Assembly for Bihar was set up in

1772
1774
1776
1778

6. The Supreme Court was set up for the first time in India under the

Regulating Act, 1773
Charter Act, 1853
Government of India Act, 1935
Indian Constitution Act, 1950

7. Supreme Court of Kolkata started in India was introduced by the Act of

1773 Act
1909 Act
1919 Act
1858 Act

8. The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court established by the East India Company was

Elijah Impey
Courtney Ilbert
Phillip Francis
None of the above

9. Which Act gave the right to reject the decision of the committee to Governor-General?

Regulating Act of 1773
Pitt's India Act of 1784
Act of 1786
Act of 1813

10. Which of the following Acts empowered Lord Cornwallis to overrule the decision of his Council?

Regulating Act
Act of 1786
Charter Act of 1793
Charter Act of 1813

11. By a Regulation in 1793, the District Collector was deprived of his judicial powers and made the collecting agent only. What was the reason for such regulation?

Lord Cornwallis felt that the District Collector's efficiency of revenue collection would enormously increase without the burden of other work
Lord Cornwallis felt that judicial power should compulsorily be in the hands of Europeans. While Indians can be given the job of revenue collection in the districts
Lord Cornwallis was alarmed at the extent of power concentrated in the District Collector and felt that such absolute power was undesirable in one person
The judicial work demanded a deep knowledge of India and a good training in law and Lord Cornwallis felt that District Collector should be only a revenue collector

12. The monopoly of the East India Company in India's trade was abo- lished in

1793
1803
1813
1833

13. Which of the following is one of the reasons for considering Charter Act of 1813 important for India?

It banned propaganda by Christian Missionaries in India
It emphasised industrialisation in India
It made a financial allocation for the education of Indian people
It approved the development of a railway system in India

14. Which of among following had recommended to hold the Indian Civil Service Examination simultaneously in India and England?

Aitchison Commission
Hobhouse Commission
Montagu-Chelmsford Report
Lord Cornwallis

15. Which Act provisioned competitive exam system for Civil Services?

1833
1853
1858
1882

16. Which of the following Acts for the first time created a functioning Legislature Council in India?

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

17. In which of the following years Brit- ish Government finally agreed to hold the Indian Civil Services (I.C.S.) examination simultaneously in India and England?

1922
1923
1924
1925

18. Under which Act, Board of control was established?

Regulating Act, 1773
Settlement Act, 1781
Charter Act, 1813
Pitt's India Act, 1784

19. By which Act British Govt. abolished the monopoly of East India Company on trading of sugar and China?

Regulating Act, 1773
Pitt's India Act, 1784
Charter Act, 1813
Charter Act, 1833

20. British East India Company lost the monopoly of Tea trade by

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

21. Which of the following Acts transferred the Government of India from East India Company to the Crown?

Charter Act, 1833
Charter Act, 1853
The Government of India Act, 1858
Indian Council Act, 1861

22. Which one of the following Acts empowered the Governor General of India to issue Ordinances?

Charter Act of 1833
Indian Council Act of 1861
Indian Council Act of 1892
Indian Council Act of 1909

23. Which one of the following Acts of British India strengthened the Viceroy's authority over his executive council by substituting 'portfolio' or departmental system for corporate functioning?

Indian Council Act, 1861
Government of India Act, 1858
Indian Council Act, 1892
Indian Council Act, 1909

24. By which of the following Acts, the British for the first time introduced the system of indirect elections in India?

1909
1861
1867
1892

25. When were High Courts established in Bombay, Madras and Calcutta?

1861
1851
1871
1881

26. The most short-lived of all of Britain's constitutional experiments in India was

The Indian Council Act of 1861
Indian Council Act of 1892
Indian Council Act of 1909
Government of India Act of 1919

27. The declaration of reforms on 20 August, 1917 is known as

Montagu Declaration
Morely Declaration
Minto Declaration
Chelmsford Declaration

28. The Montagu-Chelmsford Report formed the basis of

the Indian Council Act, 1909
the Government of India Act, 1919
the Government of India Act, 1935
the Indian Independence Act, 1947

29. In which Constitutional document Dyarchy System was introduced in Indian provinces?

1892
1909
1919
1935

30. The Montagu-Chelmsford Proposals were related to

Social reforms
Educational reforms
Reforms in police administration
Constitutional reforms

31. The principle of Dyarchy was introduced by the Act of

1861
1892
1909
1919

32. Identify the incorrect statement about Government of India Act 1919

This Act is also known as Morley. Minto Reforms Act.
This Act separated the Central and Provincial subjects.
The Government of India Act 1919 came into force in 1921.
Montague was the Secretary of State for India and Lord Chelmsford was the Viceroy of India

33. Which of the following report was baseline of the Government of India Act, 1935?

The Cabinet Mission
The Cripps Mission
The Rowlatt Commission
The Simon Commission

34. Government of India Act, 1935 abolished

Provincial autonomy
Provincial diarchy
Federal structure of India
Responsible Central Government

35. Why Government of India Act, 1935 is important?

It is a main source of the Indian Constitution
By this India got freedom
Division of India is described in it
End of the princely States by this

36. Which one of the following is not a feature of the Government of India Act of 1935?

Diarchy at the Centre as well as in the Provinces
A bicameral Legislature
Provincial Autonomy
An All India Federation

37. The real intention of the British to include the Princely States in the Federal Union proposed by the India Act of 1935 was to

Exercise more and direct political and administrative
Involve the princes actively in the administration of the colony
Finally effect the complete political and administrative take over of all the princely States by the British
Use the princes to counter-balance the anti-imperialist doctrines of the nationalist leaders

38. Who among the following said about the Act of 1935 'a car which has a brake but no engine'?

Jawaharlal Nehru
C. Rajagopalachari
Mahatma Gandhi
S.C. Bose

39. In which session, Indian National Congress had rejected Government of India Act, 1935?

Ramgarh Session, 1940
Lucknow Session, 1936
Faizpur Session
None of the above

40. Who amongst the following had called the Government of India Act, 1935 as the 'Charter of Slavery'?

Jawaharlal Nehru
M.A. Jinnah
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

41. The 'Instrumentation of Instructions' contained in the Government of In- dia Act, 1935 have been incorporated in the Constitution of India in the year 1950 as

Fundamental Rights
Directive Principles of State Policy
Extent of Executive Power of State
Conduct of Business of the Government of India

42. Who has said it, "I have not to beg pardon in connection with the allegation that in the draft of the Constitution, a major part of the Government of India Act, 1935, has again been reproduced"?

Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Sardar Patel
Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar