Questions and answers for exam Preparation

MCQs

Total Questions : 116 | Page 5 of 12 pages

Question 41. Haider Ali’s administration is remembered for its:

Leniency
Severity
Nobel innovations
Welfare measures

Discuss Question

Answer: Option B. -> Severity
Answer: (b)

Question 42. The following are connected with the First AngloMaratha War 1779-82:

Convention of Wadgaon

Treaty of Purandar

Treaty of Surat

Treaty of Salbai

Their arrangement in the correct chronological order is

3-2-1-4
2-1-3-4
4-2-1-3
1-4-3-2

Discuss Question

Answer: Option A. -> 3-2-1-4
Answer: (a)

Question 43. In which Governor’s tenure, Diwani rights of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa was granted to East India Company by Emperor Shah Alam?

Lord Clive
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Wellesley
Lord William Bentinck

Discuss Question

Answer: Option A. -> Lord Clive
Answer: (a)

Question 44. ‘The Musalman’, the handwritten daily newspaper in circulation since 1927, is published from which one of the following places?

Chennai
Hyderabad
Mysore
Lucknow

Discuss Question

Answer: Option D. -> Lucknow
Answer: (d)The Musalman is the oldest Urdulanguage daily newspaper published from Chennai in India. The newspaper was founded by Syed Azmatullah in 1927. The Musalman is possibly the only handwritten newspaper in the world.

Question 45. Which of the following statements regarding Permanent Settlement is/are correct?

The Permanent Settlement was introduced in parts of the Madras and Bombay Presidencies.
The Permanent Settlement created a new class of landlords with hereditary rights on land.
The landlords created by the Permanent Settlement could never be removed under any circumstance.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

Only 1
Only 2
2 and 3
1, 2 and 3

Discuss Question

Answer: Option B. -> Only 2
Answer: (b)

Question 46. Lord Cornwallis has been criticized for not destroying Tipu Sultan when he had the chance to do so after the third Anglo-Mysore war.
Which one of the following considerations was not a factor taken into account by Cornwallis in taking his decision?

Sickness spread among the English troops
War with France, and the consequent alliance between Tipu and the French, were apprehended
The territory was too large to be administered with any
Cornwallis was ill-disposed towards the court of Directors who were advising full annexation

Discuss Question

Answer: Option D. -> Cornwallis was ill-disposed towards the court of Directors who were advising full annexation
Answer: (d)

Question 47. Identify the name of the wife of the Mughal Emperor who is believed to have sabotaged the work of the rebels by acting as an informer to the British.

Zeenat Mahal
Fatima Begum
Hazrat Mahal
Mumtaz Mahal

Discuss Question

Answer: Option A. -> Zeenat Mahal
Answer: (a)Zeenat Mehal was the wife of Bahadur Shah II.

Question 48. What was the most important reason for the First AngloSikh War (1845-46)?

The attempts of the English Company to interfere with the internal matters of the Lahore state
The agreement entered into the Dogra Chief, Gulab Singh, by the English to sell Kashmir to the former
To divert the energies of ungovernable Khalsa army
The war-like preparations of the English across the Sutlej

Discuss Question

Answer: Option C. -> To divert the energies of ungovernable Khalsa army
Answer: (c)

Question 49. Which of the following opposed British in India vigorously?