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BRITISH RULE IN INDIA MCQs

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Question 21. In which region did Birsa Munda operate against the British?
  1.    Tarai
  2.    Chhota Nagpur
  3.    Punjab
  4.    Manipur
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Chhota Nagpur
Question 22. An ambassador of the British King James I, who secured favourable privileges for the East India Company from Emperor Jahangir, was
  1.    Josiah Child
  2.    Thomas Roe
  3.    Henry Middleton
  4.    Hawkins
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Thomas Roe
Question 23. The single biggest item of British capital investment in India was
  1.    Banking and insurance
  2.    Shipping
  3.    Plantations and mines
  4.    Railways
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Railways
Question 24. British Crown assumed sovereignty over Indian from the East Indian Company in the year
  1.    1860
  2.    1859
  3.    1858
  4.    1857
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 1858
Question 25. Which of the Act made the governor of Bengal as Governor General of India?
  1.    Pitt's India Act, AD 1784
  2.    Charter Act, 1793 AD
  3.    The Regulating Act, AD 1773
  4.    The charter Act, 1813 AD
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> The Regulating Act, AD 1773
Question 26. Which of the following Government of India Act/Indian Council Act brought three separate presidencies (Madras, Bombay and Bengal) into a common system?
  1.    Government of India Act, 1935
  2.    Government of India Act, 1919
  3.    Indian Council Act of 1861
  4.    Indian Council Act of 1909
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Indian Council Act of 1861
Question 27. The llbert Bill controversy during the period of Lord Ripon exposed the racial bitterness of the British and united the Indians
  1.    Lytton
  2.    Queen Anne
  3.    Lord Ripon
  4.    Queen Elizabeth
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Lord Ripon
Question 28. "Treaty of Rajpurghat" was signed on December 25, 1805 between Holkar and __________
  1.    Portuguese
  2.    French
  3.    Dutch
  4.    British
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> British
Question 29. Who among the following had been the leader of a number of anti-British revolts in Sambalpur?
  1.    Kattabomman
  2.    Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi
  3.    Surendra Sai
  4.    Utirat Singh
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Surendra Sai
Question 30. The Peshwaship was abolished by the British at the time of Peshwa
  1.    Narayan Rao
  2.    Baji Rao-II
  3.    Raghunath Rao
  4.    Madhav Rao-II
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Baji Rao-II

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