1. The first Governor General of India was:
a) Lord Clive
b) Lord Canning
c) Lord William Bentick
d) Lord Lytton
2. The first Governor General of India was appointed in:
b) 1833
c) 1858
d) 1911
3. First decisive military success of English East India Company in India is marked by:
a) Battle of Buxar
b) Battle of Plassey
c) Battle of Panipat
d) Battle of Haldi Ghati
4. When was the Battle of Plassey fought?
a) 1757
b) 1789
c) 1848
d) 1857
5. Sirajuddaulah was defeated by Lord Clive in the battle of:
a) Plassey
b) Buxar
c) Munger
d) Wandiwash
6. By which one of the following Acts did the Governor General of Bengal became the Governor General of India?
a) The Regulating Act
b) The Pitt's India Act
c) The Charter Act of 1793
d) The Charter Act of 1833
7. Who among the following was the first Governor General of Bengal?
a) Robert Clive
b) William Bentick
c) Marquess Wellesley
d) Waren Hastings
8. When the East India Company was formed, the Mughal emperor in India was:
a) Jahangir
b) Humayun
c) Aurangzeb
d) Akbar
9. Who pronounced the theory of 'Economic Drain of India' during British imperialism?
a) W.C. Bannerji
b) Dadabhai Naoroji
c) Gopalkrishna Gokhale
d) Gandhiji
10. The single biggest item of British capital investment in India was:
a) Railways
b) Plantations and mines
c) Banking and Insurance
d) Shipping
11. Which of the following act made the Governor of Bengal as Governor of India?
a) The Pitt's India Act, 1784
b) The Charter Act, 1813
c) The Charter Act, 1793
d) The Regulating Act, 1773
12. The Capital of British India was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in the year:
a) 1911
b) 1912
c) 1920
d) 1925
13. During the period of which Governor General Viceroy was the Indian Civil Service introduced?
a) Dalhousie
b) Curzon
c) Bentick
d) Cornwallis
14. Which of the following authorised the British Government to imprison any person without trial and conviction in a court of law:
a) Rowlatt Act of 1919
b) Government of India Act 1935
c) Indian Council Act 1909
d) Government of India Act 1919
15. The first Indian to be elected as a member of the British House of Commons was:
a) Dadabhai Naoroji
b) Surendra Nath Banerjee
c) Dr. BR Ambedkar
d) CR Das
16. 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
17. Who was the Governor General of India during the Civil Disobedience Movement?
a) Lord Chelmsford
b) Lord Reading
c) Lord Irwin
d) Lord Wavell
18. The process of the introduction of education in English had been initiated in India by Lord:
a) Curzon
b) Bentick
c) Hastings
d) Macaulay
19. Dadabhai Naoroji's book 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India ' analysed the British rule in India was published in:
a) 1898
b) 1901
c) 1908
d) 1946
20. 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
21. Who was the Viceroy at the time of Quit India Movement?
a) Lord Mountbatten
b) Lord Wavell
c) Lord Linlithgow
d) Lord Irwin
22. The term of office fixed by Regulating Act for Governor General was:
a) 4 years
b) 5 years
c) 3 years
d) 2 years
23. Which of the following is not the part of Government of India Act, 1935?
a) This act provided for setting up of the federation of India Act comprising British Indian Provinces
b) Diarchy in the provinces was replaced by provincial autonomy
c) The post of Indian council of secretary of state for India made permanent
d) The Diarchy was introduced at the centre
24. Which Indian ruler had requested Napoleon for help in driving the British away from India?
a) Shivaji
b) Jai Singh
c) Tipu Sultan
d) Rani of Jhansi
25. In which year was the title of Governor General changed to that of the Viceroy?
a) 1858
b) 1861
c) 1878
d) 1885
26. Which land tenure system had introduced by Lord Cornwallis?
a) Zamindari
b) Ryotwari
c) Mahalwari
d) Inamdari
27. Who said that the exploitative nature of British rule was 'Bleeding India white'?
a) Tilak
b) Dadabhai Naoroji
c) Hume
d) Annie Besant
28. When was Morley-Minto reforms taken place?
a) 1905
b) 1909
c) 1919
d) 1857
29. Which one of the following Viceroy is regarded as the father of local self-government of India?
a) Lord Ripon
b) Lord Bentick
c) Lord Curzon
d) Lord Mayo
30. Who set up the dual system of administration in Bengal?
a) Robert Clive
b) Lord Wellesley
c) Dupleix
d) Lord Macaulay
31. Which of the following British Prime Minister headed the First Round Table Conference in London?
a) Churchill
b) Ramsay McDonald
c) Chamberlain
d) Disraeli
32. India was granted freedom during the British Prime Minister:
a) Clement Attlee
b) Winston Churchill
c) Ramsay McDonald
d) William Pitt
33. Which of the following British official initiated the Doctrine of Lapse?
a) Lord Wellesley
b) Lord Auckland
c) Lord Dalhousie
d) Lord Hastings
34. East India Company was established in the year:
a) 1607 AD
b) 1600 AD
c) 1700 AD
d) 1669 AD
35. Which British Governor General introduced Postage Stamp in India?
a) Lord Dalhousie
b) Lord Auckland
c) Lord Canning
d) Lord William Bentinck
36. Who among the following British persons admitted the revolt of 1857 as a national revolt?
a) Lord Dalhousie
b) Lord Canning
c) Lord Ellenborough
d) Disraeli
37. Which of the following Act, ensured the establishment of the Supreme Court in India?
a) Pitt's India Act, AD 1784
b) The Regulating Act, AD 1773
c) Charter Act, 1793 AD
d) Charter Act, AD 1813
38. Which of the following act led to the introduction of dual system of government in India?
a) Pitt's India Act, AD 1784
b) The Regulating Act, AD 1773
c) Charter Act, 1793 AD
d) Charter Act, AD 1813
39. 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
40. The Viceroy who wanted to train Indian in the art of Self-government was:
a) Mountbatten
b) Ripon
c) Northbrook
d) Curzon
41. 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
42. Who was the Viceroy when the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place?
a) Chelmsford
b) Hardings-II
c) Reading
d) Irwin
43. The Non-Cooperation Movement under Gandhi was in full swing during the Viceroyalty of:
a) Chelmsford
b) Hardings-II
c) Reading
d) Irwin
Answer:
1. c), 2. b), 3. a), 4. a), 5. a), 6. d), 7. d), 8. d), 9. b), 10. a), 11. d), 12. a), 13. d), 14. a), 15. a), 16. b), 17. c), 18. d), 19. b), 20. a), 21. b), 22. b), 23. c), 24. c), 25. a), 26. a), 27. b), 28. b), 29. a), 30. a), 31. b), 32. a), 33. c), 34. b), 35. a), 36. d), 37. b), 38. a), 39. b), 40. b), 41. b), 42. a), 43. c)
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