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This section includes 451 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your History knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 351. |
Which of the following statement is not correct about the provisions of the Government of India Act,1858?$? |
| A. | The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors |
| B. | A council of fifteen members was appointed to assist the Secretary of State for India |
| C. | For all the communications between Britain and India, the Secretary of State became the real channel |
| D. | All the above statements are incorrect |
| Answer» E. | |
| 352. |
Throughout the 19th century intermittent uprisings occurred in Malabar, especially in the __________ and Valluvanad taluks.Twenty two such riots were reported from different parts of Malabar$? |
| A. | Ernad |
| B. | Cochi |
| C. | Travancore |
| D. | Kannur |
| Answer» B. Cochi | |
| 353. |
Who __________ tried to rediscover India's past$? |
| A. | Lord Lytton |
| B. | Max Muller |
| C. | S.N. Banerjee |
| D. | Gokahale |
| Answer» C. S.N. Banerjee | |
| 354. |
The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was$? |
| A. | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| B. | Womesh Chandra Banerjee |
| C. | Surendranath Banerjee |
| D. | Pheroze Shah Mehta |
| Answer» C. Surendranath Banerjee | |
| 355. |
The momentous decision to transfer the capital from Calcutta to Delhi, to annul the partition of Bengal and to abolish Indian indentured labour were taken during the Viceroyalty of Lord$? |
| A. | Hardinge |
| B. | Minto |
| C. | Chelmsford |
| D. | Reading |
| Answer» B. Minto | |
| 356. |
Who said that he had not become His Majesty's first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire?$? |
| A. | Attlee |
| B. | Churchill |
| C. | Disraeli |
| D. | Loyd George |
| Answer» C. Disraeli | |
| 357. |
Who among the British Governor- General shown great interest in the preservation of ancient monuments?$? |
| A. | Lord Curzon |
| B. | Lord Ripon |
| C. | Lord Lytton |
| D. | Lord Irwin |
| Answer» E. | |
| 358. |
As a result of the partition of Bengal announced by Lord Curzon in 1905, Bengal was partitioned into two provinces of$? |
| A. | East Bengal and West Bengal |
| B. | Bengal and Eastern Bengal & Assam |
| C. | Bengal and Assam |
| D. | Bengal and Odisha and East Bengal and Assam |
| Answer» C. Bengal and Assam | |
| 359. |
When the Simon Commission visited India the Viceroy was$? |
| A. | Lloyd George |
| B. | Lord Irwin |
| C. | Lord Reading |
| D. | Lord Ripon |
| Answer» C. Lord Reading | |
| 360. |
Who was Lord Morley?$? |
| A. | Secretary of the state |
| B. | Viceroy of India |
| C. | Governor General of India |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Viceroy of India | |
| 361. |
Madras was returned by the French to the British in 1748 by the Treaty of$? |
| A. | Paris |
| B. | Delhi |
| C. | London |
| D. | Aix-la-Chapelle |
| Answer» E. | |
| 362. |
Gandhi had been provoked into crusading for the lot of the Asians in South Africa by the British law called the Act$? |
| A. | Apartheid |
| B. | Blacks' Registration |
| C. | cl Asiatic Registration |
| D. | Subcitizens' Licence |
| Answer» D. Subcitizens' Licence | |
| 363. |
Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct related to the Charter Act of 1793? I. Renewed the Charter of the Company for 20 more years.II. Regulated the finances of the Company.III. Lay down that the salaries of the Board of Control and their staffs were to be paid from the British revenues.IV. Prohibited the Commander-in-Chief from being a member of the Governor General's Council$? |
| A. | I, II & III |
| B. | I, II & IV |
| C. | I & II |
| D. | II & III |
| Answer» C. I & II | |
| 364. |
The Indian Civil Service Act was passed during the Viceroyalty of$? |
| A. | Elgin |
| B. | Canning |
| C. | Minto |
| D. | Lytton |
| Answer» C. Minto | |
| 365. |
The First Opium War started__________$? |
| A. | 1729 |
| B. | 1736 |
| C. | 1839 |
| D. | 1939 |
| Answer» D. 1939 | |
| 366. |
Which of the following Government of India Act introduced the diarchy system in the provinces of India?$? |
| A. | Government of India Act, 1909 |
| B. | Government of India Act, 1919 |
| C. | Government of India Act, 1935 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Government of India Act, 1935 | |
| 367. |
Who among the following Viceroys became a victim of one of the convicts during his visit to the Andamans?? |
| A. | Curzon |
| B. | Mayo |
| C. | Ripon |
| D. | Lytton |
| Answer» C. Ripon | |
| 368. |
In March 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed the Cripps Mission to resolve Indian political crisis because? |
| A. | he was under pressure from the US President Roosevelt |
| B. | of the gravity of the Japanese war menace on India's borders |
| C. | both (a) and (b) above |
| D. | of INA's initial success on India's eastern borders |
| Answer» D. of INA's initial success on India's eastern borders | |
| 369. |
Lytton held an Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877 to announce __________ as the Empress of India at a time when a large part of the country was in the grip of a severe famine? |
| A. | Queen Elizabeth |
| B. | Queen Victoria |
| C. | Queen Anne |
| D. | Queen Marie |
| Answer» C. Queen Anne | |
| 370. |
Which of the following British official intiated the Doctrine of Lapse?? |
| A. | Lord Wellesley |
| B. | Lord Auckland |
| C. | Lord Dalhousie |
| D. | Warren Hastings |
| Answer» D. Warren Hastings | |
| 371. |
British Indian Association was founded on October 29, 1851 at__________? |
| A. | Calcutta |
| B. | Pune |
| C. | Madras |
| D. | Bombay |
| Answer» B. Pune | |
| 372. |
Sir Thomas Roe came to India with a letter from the British Monarch? |
| A. | Queen Mary |
| B. | Queen Elizabeth |
| C. | James I |
| D. | Queen Anne |
| Answer» D. Queen Anne | |
| 373. |
Year of the Battle of Wandiwash is __________? |
| A. | 1560 |
| B. | 1660 |
| C. | 1760 |
| D. | 1860 |
| Answer» D. 1860 | |
| 374. |
The title of 'Viceroy' was added to the centre of the Governor-General of India for the first time in? |
| A. | 1848 A.D. |
| B. | 1858 A.D. |
| C. | 1862 A.D. |
| D. | 1856 A.D. |
| Answer» C. 1862 A.D. | |
| 375. |
The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act __________? |
| A. | 1856 |
| B. | 1858 |
| C. | 1865 |
| D. | 1946 |
| Answer» B. 1858 | |
| 376. |
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 and R is the correct explanation of A |
| B. | Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A |
| C. | A is true but R is false |
| D. | A is false but R is true |
| Answer» B. Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A | |
| 377. |
The Treaty of Surat was in the year __________? |
| A. | 1475 |
| B. | 1575 |
| C. | 1675 |
| D. | 1775 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 378. |
Which of the following is not the provision of The Act of 1892?? |
| A. | A simultaneous examination of ICS to be held in England and India |
| B. | Reforms of the legislative council and adoption of the principle of election in place of nomination |
| C. | Support of the annexation of Upper Burma |
| D. | Reduction in the Military expenditure |
| Answer» D. Reduction in the Military expenditure | |
| 379. |
The first strategically placed factory that the Britishers had fortified was at? |
| A. | Surat |
| B. | Bombay |
| C. | Masulipatnam |
| D. | Madras |
| Answer» E. | |
| 380. |
Throughout the 19th century intermittent uprisings occurred in Malabar, especially in the __________ and Valluvanad taluks.Twenty two such riots were reported from different parts of Malabar? |
| A. | Ernad |
| B. | Cochi |
| C. | Travancore |
| D. | Kannur |
| Answer» B. Cochi | |
| 381. |
The English rounded Calcutta after obtaining the zamindari of three villages, viz Sutanuti, Kalikata and Govindpur, from the Mughal Viceroy of Bengal in 1698. The nucleus of the British settlement in Calcutta was? |
| A. | San Thome |
| B. | Victoria Memeorial |
| C. | Fort William |
| D. | Howrah Port |
| Answer» D. Howrah Port | |
| 382. |
Who established the Sadr-Di-wani-Adalat during the British East India Company's rule?? |
| A. | Wellesley |
| B. | Warren Hastings |
| C. | Dalhousie |
| D. | Cornwallis |
| Answer» C. Dalhousie | |
| 383. |
The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was? |
| A. | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| B. | Womesh Chandra Banerjee |
| C. | Surendranath Banerjee |
| D. | Pheroze Shah Mehta |
| Answer» C. Surendranath Banerjee | |
| 384. |
Who __________ tried to rediscover India's past? |
| A. | Lord Lytton |
| B. | Max Muller |
| C. | S.N. Banerjee |
| D. | Gokahale |
| Answer» C. S.N. Banerjee | |
| 385. |
Who said that he had not become His Majesty's first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire?? |
| A. | Attlee |
| B. | Churchill |
| C. | Disraeli |
| D. | Loyd George |
| Answer» C. Disraeli | |
| 386. |
The momentous decision to transfer the capital from Calcutta to Delhi, to annul the partition of Bengal and to abolish Indian indentured labour were taken during the Viceroyalty of Lord? |
| A. | Hardinge |
| B. | Minto |
| C. | Chelmsford |
| D. | Reading |
| Answer» B. Minto | |
| 387. |
Who among the British Governor- General shown great interest in the preservation of ancient monuments?? |
| A. | Lord Curzon |
| B. | Lord Ripon |
| C. | Lord Lytton |
| D. | Lord Irwin |
| Answer» E. | |
| 388. |
Who was the first Governor General of Bengal?? |
| A. | Robert Clive |
| B. | William Bentinck |
| C. | Warren Hasting |
| D. | Col. Sanders |
| Answer» D. Col. Sanders | |
| 389. |
Which of the following statement is not correct about the provisions of the Government of India Act,1858?? |
| A. | The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors |
| B. | A council of fifteen members was appointed to assist the Secretary of State for India |
| C. | For all the communications between Britain and India, the Secretary of State became the real channel |
| D. | All the above statements are incorrect |
| Answer» E. | |
| 390. |
Which of the following is not correct about Montegu- Chelmsford's Reform & Government of India Act, 1919?? |
| A. | It changed the administrative system in India |
| B. | In this Act the central legislative council was replaced by two houses-the imperial legislative assembly and the council of state |
| C. | Education and public health were placed under charge of ministers responsible to the legislature |
| D. | All of the above are incorrect |
| Answer» E. | |
| 391. |
Under the Government of India __________, the British Crown assumed direct administration of India in the new British Raj? |
| A. | Act of 1658 |
| B. | Act of 1758 |
| C. | Act of 1858 |
| D. | Act of 1947 |
| Answer» D. Act of 1947 | |
| 392. |
The writers of the East India Company had their training in the college at __________ in England? |
| A. | London |
| B. | Manchester |
| C. | Liverpool |
| D. | Haileybury |
| Answer» E. | |
| 393. |
The Permanent Settlement was enforced on__________? |
| A. | 1693 |
| B. | 1793 |
| C. | 1893 |
| D. | 1933 |
| Answer» C. 1893 | |
| 394. |
Rani Laxmi Bai died fighting the British in the Battle of? |
| A. | Jhansi |
| B. | Kanpur |
| C. | Gwalior |
| D. | Kalpi |
| Answer» D. Kalpi | |
| 395. |
The Simla Conference called by Viceroy Lord Wavell (to discuss the so-called Wavell Plan) in June 1945 failed on account of? |
| A. | Jinnah's demand that the Muslim League alone would nominate Muslim members to the Executive Council |
| B. | the demand of the Congress to include the members of all communities in their quota 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» E. | |
| 396. |
During the Viceroyalty of Sir John Lawrence the bone of contention between India and Bhutan was? |
| A. | Duars |
| B. | Jalpaiguri |
| C. | Goalpara |
| D. | Cooch Behar |
| Answer» B. Jalpaiguri | |
| 397. |
By which Charter Act, the East India Company's monopoly of trade with China come to an end? |
| A. | Charter Act of 1793 |
| B. | Charter Act of 1813 |
| C. | Charter Act of 1833 |
| D. | Charter Act of 1853 |
| Answer» C. Charter Act of 1833 | |
| 398. |
The British India Society was formed in __________ |
| A. | 1832 |
| B. | 1833 |
| C. | 1839 |
| D. | 1874 |
| Answer» D. 1874 | |
| 399. |
Treaty of Rajpurghat" was signed on December 25, 1805 between Holkar and __________ |
| A. | French |
| B. | British |
| C. | Portuguese |
| D. | Dutch |
| Answer» C. Portuguese | |
| 400. |
In which region did Birsa Munda operate against the British? |
| A. | Punjab |
| B. | Chhota Nagpur |
| C. | Tarai |
| D. | Manipur |
| Answer» C. Tarai | |