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HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA

Question : 1. When and whom did Sir Charles Napier replaces as the British resident in Sind? 

Answer : c) 1842- Major James Outram

 

Question : 2. Who confessed the defeats of many Ballies and Braithwaites will not destroy them. I can ruin their resources by land but I cannot dry up the sea? 

Answer : a) Haider Ali

 

Question : 3. Who captured and executed Siraj-ud-daula after the battle of Plassey ? 

Answer : a) Miran, son of Mir Jafar

 

Question : 4. Where did so called black hole tragedy take place? 

Answer : d) Calcutta

 

Question : 5. Who was the Maratha Sardar to whom Alivardi khan ceded the revenues of a part of Orissa? 

Answer : a) Raghuji Bonsle

 

Question : 6. Who was the author of the Siyar-ul-Mutakherim, a contemporary historical account? 

Answer : a) Ghulam Hussain

 

Question : 7. Who was the president of the council of fort William established in 1707? 

Answer : a) Sir Charles Eyre coote

 

Question : 8. Who was the responsible for the establishment of the college of fort William at Calcutta to train young civil servants of India? 

Answer : a) Wellesley

 

Question : 9. When did the British make the English the medium of instruction in India? 

Answer : c) 1835

 

Question : 10. Who was the first to attempt decentralization of financial administration? 

Answer : b) Mayo

 

Question : 11. Which act created the first official legislature in India? 

Answer : d) Charter act of 1853

 

Question : 12. The British continued with the downward filtration theory till 1854 to justify one of their colonial policies in India. Pick it out from the following 

Answer : d) Educational policy

 

Question : 13. During which period did India properly witness the process of deindustrialization due to British economic policies? 

Answer : c) 1813-1860

 

Question : 14. Who was mainly responsible for the introduction of the Ryotwari system in madras? 

Answer : b) Thomas munro

 

Question : 15. Warren Hastings experiment of auctioning the right to collect revenue to the highest bidder is almost similar to 

Answer : d) Ijara system of the Mughals

 

Question : 16. Joathan Duncan founded at Sanskrit college in 1792 at 

Answer : d) Varanasi

 

Question : 17. Who among the following gave official sanction to the education of girls India? 

Answer : a) Dalhousie

 

Question : 18. When did Indian universities assuming teaching function 

Answer : d) 1904

 

Question : 19. Which act was the responsible for the ultimate death of the presidency system? 

Answer : d) Charter act of 1833

 

Question : 20. Who was the leader of the English mission sent to the Mughal court in 1715 which succeeded in getting the firman of 1717 granted from the Mughal emperor, Farukh Siyar? 

Answer : d) John Surman