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Answer: Option A
Explanation : Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1773 to 1785. The first governor-general in India (of Bengal) was Warren Hastings, the first official governor-general of British India was Lord William Bentinck, and the first governor-general of the Dominion of India was Lord Mountbatten.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Warren Hastings is the first British Governor General of Bengal. He took the charge as a Governor General on 20th October,1773.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Canning was the first Viceroy of India. The title of Viceroy was created in 1858 after the mutiny of 1857. Before 1858, East India Company was ruling large parts of India and the head of administration of the East India Company was called Governor General.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : After the year 1853, a substantial amount of British capital had been invested in the railways.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The British Governor General and Viceroy who served for the longest period in India was Lord Dalhousie.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Under this provision Lord William Bentinck became the first Governor-General of India. It deprived the Governors of Bombay and Madras of their legislative powers. For the first time, the Governor-General’s Government was known as the ‘Government of India’ and his council as the ‘India Council’ in 1858.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Government of India Act 1833 converted the title into “Governor-General of India.” The title “Viceroy and Governor-General” was first used in the queen’s proclamation appointing Viscount Canning in 1858.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Governor of the East India Company was Elected by the members of the East India Company itself.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The first constitutional measure Introduced by the British in India which worked till the framing of the Indian Constitution was the Act of 1935.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Regulating Act of 1773 was the first landmark in the constitutional development of India. Via this act, the British Parliament for the first time interfered into affairs of India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Lord Linlithgow (1936 – 1944) was the viceroy of India during Quit India Movement. The Quit India Movement (also known as the August Movement) was a civil disobedience movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8,1942 in Mumbai for complete independence

Answer: Option C
Explanation : This event also started the process of transforming the British East India Company from a group of merchants, to an organization with military force. In 1614, King James I of England sent a diplomat, Sir Thomas Roe, to visit the Mughal emperor, Jahangir, and negotiate a trade treaty.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Subsidiary Alliance System was “Non-Intervention Policy” used by Lord Wellesley who was the Governor-General (1798-1805) to establish British Empire in India. According to this system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of British army.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The doctrine of lapse was an annexation policy applied by the British East India Company in India until 1858. The policy is most commonly associated with Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor General of the East India Company in India between 1848 and 1856.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Treaty of Amritsar (1809) The Treaty of Amritsar of 1809 was an agreement between the British East India Company and Ranjit Singh, the Sikh leader who founded the Sikh empire.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Lord Ripon is known to have granted the Indians first taste of freedom by introducing the Local Self Government in 1882. His scheme of local self government developed the Municipal institutions which had been growing up in the country ever since India was occupied by the British Crown.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Battle of Wandiwash, (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history of India, a confrontation between the French, under the comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. It was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle in southern India during the Seven Years War (1756–63).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Charter granted to the East India Company. Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a formal charter to the London merchants trading to the East Indies, hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade in what is now Indonesia.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : By the Act of 1773, Parliament granted a loan of Rs 400,000 to the East India Company.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Artisans and craftsmen were ruined by the large-scale influx of cheap British.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The East India Company was incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600. It was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India during the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar (1556-1605).

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The British India Society (1839): Founded in London with the efforts of William Adam, one of the friends of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. He along with George Thompson, William Ednis, and Major General Briggs organised meetings and enlightened people about the miserable conditions in India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The All-India Muslim League failed to form the government in any province. The Congress ministries resigned in October and November 1939, in protest against Viceroy Lord Linlithgow’s action of declaring India to be a belligerent in the Second World War without consulting the Indian people.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : In 1767 Mysore was a powerful state under Hyder Ali. In 1769, the first Anglo-Mysore war was fought in which Haider Ali defeated the British and Treaty of Madras was signed between them. Haider Ali occupied almost the whole of Carnatic.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Regulating Act, (1773), legislation passed by the British Parliament for the regulation of the British East India Company’s Indian territories, mainly in Bengal. The act was amended and the government of India was recast by Prime Minister William Pitt’s India Act of 1784.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : According to the terms of the treaty of Srirangapattanam, Malabar was ceded to the British.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Treaty of Amritsar, (April 25, 1809), pact concluded between Charles T. Metcalfe, representing the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, head of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab. The British wanted a defensive treaty against the French and control of Punjab to the Sutlej River.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : When the East India Company came into existence, England was ruled by the Stuarts.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : From 1615 to 1618, he was ambassador to the court at Agra, India, of the Great Mughal Ruler, Jahangir. The principal object of the mission was to obtain protection for the East India Company`s factory at Surat. At the Mughal court, Roe allegedly became a favorite of Jahangir and may have been his drinking partner.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India decided to partition Bengal for administrative purposes, creating a new province of East Bengal and Assam, with a population of 31 million people and with its capital at Dhaka.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Indian Rebellion of 1857 is also called the Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Mutiny, North India’s First War of Independence or North India’s first struggle for independence. It began on 10 May 1857 at Meerut, as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company’s army.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Birsa Munda was a great tribal leader belonging to the Munda Adivasi, the movement operate against British in Chhota Nagpur (Jharkhand) region.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The single biggest item of British capital investment in India was Railways.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Warren Hastings was an English statesman and the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor General of India. Hastings brought the Dual Government system to an end by enforcing the Regulating Act of 1773.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Act for the first time introduced local representation in the Indian government. Rule of company in India ended and the rule of Crown started. The three presidencies (Madras, Bombay and Bengal) were three separate presidencies brought into a common system.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The government of India Act (1858) also known as the act for Good Government of India transferred the power to the British crown from East India company.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Yashwantrao was the last to sign a treaty with the British, on 24 December 1805 at a place called Rajpur Ghat on the bank of Beas River. The treaty was named ‘The Treaty of Peace and Amity between the British Government and Yashwantrao Holkar.’

Answer: Option B
Explanation : British subjects in 1873 had been exempted from trial by Indian magistrates, and in cases involving death or transportation they could only be tried by a high court. But by 1883 the viceroy, Lord Ripon, proposed to make British subjects amenable to sessions courts, over which Indians were now senior enough in the civil service to preside. This proposal as embodied in the Ilbert Bill provoked furious protests, especially among the Calcutta (Kolkata) European business community and the Bengal indigo planters, and there was covert sympathy from many officials.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Baji Rao II (10 January, 1775 – 28 January, 1851) was the last Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, and governed from 1795 to 1818. He was installed as a puppet ruler by the Maratha nobles, whose growing power prompted him to flee his capital Pune and sign the Treaty of Bassein (1802) with the British. The last Peshwa was Baji Rao-II. Duringhrs reign the peshwa ship was abolished by the British Government (Lord Harding-I, third Anglo Maratha battle).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Vernacular Press Act, in British India, law enacted in 1878 to curtail the freedom of the Indian-language (i.e., non-English) press. The law was repealed in 1881 by Lytton’s successor as viceroy, Lord Ripon (governed 1880–84).

Answer: Option B
Explanation : By virtue of the Doctrine of Lapse, Lord Dalhousie annexed Sambalpur in 1849, as Narayan Singh had no male successor to succeed him. During the uprising of 1857 the sepoys set Surendra Sai and his brother Udyant Sai free. The resistance to British continued in Sambalpur under the leadership of Surendra Sai.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Charter Acts of 1813 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which renewed the charter issued to the British East India Company, and continued the Company’s rule in India. However, the Company’s commercial monopoly was ended, except for the tea trade and the trade with China.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Goa is not among the regions where the Britishers had first set up trading posts.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Dadabhai Naoroji’s work focused on the drain of wealth from India to England during colonial rule of British in India. One of the reasons that the Drain theory is attributed to Naoroji is his decision to estimate the net national profit of India, and by extension, the effect that colonisation has on the country.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : All of these four leaders fought against British in 1857 Revolt -Kunwar Singh- Bihar, Tanitia Tope- Gwalior, Nana Saheb- Kanpur, Maulavi Ahmaduallah- Faizabad.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Agriculture was mainly invested by British during colonial period, the raw material related to agriculture was compulsory for industry during colonial period.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The British attitude towards granting India independence changed partly owing to the Change in the government of the UK, Impact of World War II, Growing tide of Indian Nationalism.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : In 1650, Gabriel Boughton an employee of the Company obtained a license for trade in Bengal. An English factory was set up in 1651 at Hugli.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Its true that Gandhi did have a compromising attitude towards the British during WWII and even stated that “We do not seek independence out of Britain’s ruin”. Though Gandhi was the most influential figure in the political scenario at the time, it’s important to remember that simply because he wanted to maintain a compromising attittude towards the British, many of the other political leaders of the time did not wish to do so.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The United East Indian Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC), referred to by the British as the Dutch East India Company, was originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on Dutch spice trade.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The East India Company had taken Bombay from Charles II. On 21 May 1662, the marriage treaty of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV of Portugal, placed Bombay in possession of the British Empire, as part of dowry of Catherine to Charles.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The new proletariat class which emerged in India on account of the British economic policies, consisted of Money lenders, Landlords, Traders.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : At Qasim Bazar in Bengal was the East India Company given permission to trade and build a factory by the Mughals in 1651. East India Company established a factory at Qasim Bazar by the permission Mughals in 1651.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The August Offer was a proposal made by the British government in 1940 promising the expansion of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India to include more Indians, the establishment of an advisory war council, giving full weight to minority opinion, and the recognition of Indians’ right to frame their own constitution (after the end of the war). The Congress rejected the August Offer. Nehru said, “Dominion status concept is dead as a door nail.” Gandhi said that the declaration had widened the gulf between the nationalists and the British rulers.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Jatin Das, while fasting in the prison, written to the British governor, The individual must die so that the nation may live. Today, I must die so that India may win freedom and glory.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Naval Ratings mutiny took place in 1946. Basically, it started as the sailors were dissatisfied with the food they were given. This snowballed into a mutiny against British rule. The mutiny started in Bombay Dock.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : In Kerala, temples are managed by Devaswom Board,which comes under the government of Kerala.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : After the Punjab disturbances, O’Dyer was relieved of his office by the government of Britain.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Delhi was officially announced as the capital of British Raj by the then-Emperor George V, on December 12, 1911. The capital was shifted from Calcutta as Delhi was the financial and political seat of many earlier empires and was located closer to the geographical center of India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : To declare the assumption of the Government of India by the crown a Durbar was held at Allahabad on November 1, 1858, by the Viceroy Lord Canning. Queen`s proclamation was read by Lord Canning. As per the proclamation, the administration of India came into the direct hands of British Government.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Cornwallis realised that in order to consolidate the British rule in India, it was very important to organise the civil services. Civil Services was started by Lord Cornwallis and hence he is called the “Father of Indian Civil Service”.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Churchill said that the Charter did not apply to India, for he had ‘not become His Majesty’s first minister to preside over the liquidation of the British empire’.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : As per the Rowlatt act the govemment had the power to arrest any person without showing any reason, the acts were threat to the civil liberties. Later, this act became the reason for occurrence of Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In 1756, the British formally declared war against France. In addition, Spanish attempts to aid France in the Americas had failed, and France also suffered defeats against British forces in India. The Seven Years’ War ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Lord Mountbatten: Last Viceroy of India (1947-1948) Lord Mountbatten served as last Viceroy of India from 12 February 1947 – 15 August 1947; and then first Governor General of Free India from 15 August 1947 – 21 June 1948. During his tenure, India got independence in the form of two dominions of India Pakistan.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : British Parliament brought the Government of India Act, 1858, which made the following changes: i. Transferred powers from the East India Company to the Crown. ii. A member of British Parliament was made secretary of state of India to exercise powers on behalf of the Crown and was responsible to the British Parliament. iii. The Governor General for India was provided with an Executive Council, whose decision he was empowered to override.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : At that time, Lord Hardinge was the Governor General of the British held territories in India, and he was the one that shifted the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Till the end of the 17th Century the growth of the executive and legislative powers of the East india Company depended on Crown.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Battle of Porto Novo was fought on 1 July 1781 between forces of the Kingdom of Mysore and British East India Company in the place called Porto Novo (now known as Parangipettai) on the Indian subcontinent, during the Second Anglo-Mysore War. The British force, numbering more than 8,000 under the command of Sir Eyre Coote defeated a force estimated at 40,000 under the command of Hyder Ali.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The naval Battle of Swally, also known as Battle of Suvali, took place on 29–30 November 1612 off the coast of Suvali (anglicised to Swally) a village near the Surat city (now in Gujarat, India) and was a victory for four English East India Company galleons over four Portuguese galleons and 26 barks (rowing vessels with no armament).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British house of commons from the Finsbury Central Constituency in the elections of 1892 by a narrow margin of 3 votes by defeating Fredrick Thomas Penton. Being a subject of the British crown (Being a citizen of British India) he was allowed to take part in the election.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was Womesh Chandra Banerjee.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Nil Darpan (The Indigo Mirror) is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859. The play was published in Dhaka in 1860, under a pseudonym of the author. The play was essential to Nil Vidroha, better known as the Indigo Revolt of February–March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to sow indigo in their fields to protest against exploitative farming under the British Raj.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Treaty of Lahore was signed on 9 March 1846 after the First Sikh War. After the defeat of the Sikhs at the Battle of Sobraon the British were able to march into Lahore without any further battles. After the British reached the city of Lahore the treaty was signed.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Emperor Farrukhsiyar issued the British East India Company such a farman in 1717. It allowed the Company to live and trade for free in Mughal India except for an annual payment. They were also given the right to issue dastak or trade permits to transfer goods, which the officials largely used for their own gains.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Lord Irwin was the Governor General and Viceroy of India (1926-1931). On April 3, 1926 Lord Irwin was appointed 30th Viceroy and Governor-General of India. This was the most tumultuous period for the politics of India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Max Muller

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Thomas Babington Macaulay was the secretary to the Board of control of India during the British rule. He was the secretary under Lord Grey from 1832 to 1833. He is known for his Minute on Indian Education which came out in February 1835. He wanted to teach English to the people of India and not Sanskrit or Persian.

Answer: Option A
Explanation :
I. Appointment of the Simon Commission – November 1927
II. Formation of the first Labour Government in Britain – January 1924
III. Submission of the Nehru report – August 1928
IV. Inauguration of the First Round Table Conference – November 1930

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Secretary of State is also deemed as Political Head of India. The post was created in Charter Act of 1858. The first Secretary of state was Lord Stanley.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Naoroji published Poverty and un-British Rule in India in 1901. It analysed the nature of the British rule in India.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The British Governor- General Lord Curzon shown great interest in the preservation of ancient monuments.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : When the East India Company was established India was ruled by a Mughal Emperor.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Shivaram Hari Rajguru (24 August 1908 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian revolutionary from Maharashtra, known mainly for his involvement in the assassination of a British Raj police officer.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation to Britain of British and other Allied forces in Europe from 26 May to 4 June 1940. After the Phoney War, the Battle of France began in earnest on 10 May 1940.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Bengal British India Society founded in Calcutta on 20 April 1843, was the Second political public association to be formed in British India, the first being the zamindari association (1837).

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Government of India Act 1858 was passed on August 2, 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the British East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transference of its functions to the British Crown.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The East India Association was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866, in collaboration with Indians and retired British officials in London. It superseded the London Indian Society and was a platform for discussing matters and ideas about India, and to provide representation for Indians to the Government.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Satyendranath Tagore became first Indian who cracked I.C.S. or Indian Civil Service examination.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Regulating Act ( May 3, 1773): In 1765, after the battle of Buxer the East India Company got the Diwani ( Right to collect Revenue) of Bengal , Bihar and Orissa. The Governor General was assisted by four councilors. Their tenure of office was fixed for 5 years.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Governor General William Bentinck had entertained Ranjit Singh with great honour at Ropar.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Government of India Act 1858 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on August 2, 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the British East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transference of its functions to the British Crown.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Government of India Act 1858 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on August 2, 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the British East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transference of its functions to the British Crown.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Palmerston was the prime minister of Britain at the time of commencement of the Government of India Act, 1858.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : In August 1858, the British parliament passed an act that set an end to the rule of the company. The control of the British government in India was transferred to the British crown. At this time, Victoria was the queen of Britain.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The British Parliament was the supreme body in the Britain at the time of commencement of the Government of India Act- 1858.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms or more briefly known as Mont-Ford Reforms were reforms introduced by the colonial government in British India to introduce self-governing institutions gradually to India. The reforms take their name from Edwin Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India during the latter parts of World War I and Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India between 1916 and 1921. The reforms were outlined in the Montagu-Chelmsford Report prepared in 1918 and formed the basis of the Government of India Act 1919.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The first Secretary of state was Lord Stanley, who prior to 2 August 1858, served as President of the Board of Control. The Secretary of State was now the political head of the India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The British colony of Burma was part of the British run-state in India, the Empire of India, from 1824 to 1937. It is not the provision of government of India act, 1935.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1772 to 1785.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Indian National congress was fromed in 1885 during the Viceroyalty of Lord Dufferin. The first Chairman of INC was W.C.Banerjee.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Simla Conference called by Viceroy Lord Wavell (to discuss the so-called Wavell Plan) in June 1945 failed on account of Jinnah’s demand that the Muslim League alone would nominate Muslim members to the Executive Council, the demand of the Congress to include the members of all communities in their quota to the Executive Council, the demand of the Scheduled Castes to reserved seats in the Executive Council in Proportion to their population.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Immediately after putting his legs in India, Lord Cornwallis in 1786 opined once-for-all settlement with the zamindars for the collection of land revenue. In fact, Lord Cornwallis cut the Gordian knot in 1790 when the decennial permanent settlement system was decided to be introduced in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lytton was selected as Viceroy to India to fulfill the ambitious plans of Disraeli in Afghanistan.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Dadabhai Naoroji said that the exploitative nature of British rule was ‘Bleeding India White’.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Tipu Sultan had requested Napoleon for help in driving the British away from India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : On June 18th 1858, Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi, one of the most important figures of India’s First War of Independence, died while fighting against the British in Gwalior.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The title “Viceroy and Governor-General” was first used in the queen’s proclamation appointing Viscount Canning in 1858.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Mutiny was brought to an end with the fall of Gwalior into the hands of the British in India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Permanent Settlement (also Premanent Settlement of Bengal) was introduced by Lord Cornwallis in 1793. It was an agreement between the British East India Company and the Landlords of Bengal to settle the Land Revenue to be raised.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Indian Councils Act 1909, commonly known as the Morley-Minto Reforms (or as the Minto-Morley Reforms), was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the governance of British India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The writers of the East India Company had their training in the college at Haileybury in England.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Gandhiji launched Quit India Movement on 8th August 1942 in Bombay session of congress. It is also known as August revolutoion.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Ripon is known as Father of Local Self Government in India. This was not enacted by any act, it was a resolution that was passed in 1882.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Napoleon Bonaparte war lord is also known as ‘little corporal’.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Introduction of western education was another important factor which paved the way for the growth of nationalism. Three main agencies were responsible for the spread of modem education in India. They were the foreign Christian missionaries, the British Government and the progressive Indians.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : During the Viceroyalty of Sir John Lawrence the bone of contention between India and Bhutan was Duars.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Vasco Da Gama sailed from Lisbon on July 8, 1497, with a crew of 170 men. He arrived at Calicut (now Kozhikode) on May 20, 1498.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The island of Bombay had been given to the British Prince Charles II as dowry by the Portuguese.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The East India Association was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866, in collaboration with Indians and retired British officials in London. It superseded the London Indian Society and was a platform for discussing matters and ideas about India, and to provide representation for Indians to the Government.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : During the first hundred years of the British rule in India, people’s resentment and opposition to the British policies mainly surfaced in the form of tribal uprisings, peasant uprisings.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The rules of the permanent settlement made every individual zamindar and talukdar the permanent and absolute proprietors of the land under their control. As absolute proprietors of land, zamindars and talukdars were required to pay revenue to government at a rate fixed permanently.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Dual System of Government in Bengal was the brainchild of Lord Clive.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Malabar Special Police (MSP) is a paramilitary unit of the State Police of Kerala.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The age for eligibility in civil services was brought down from 21 to 19 years by Lord Lytton.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In the 18th Century the Royal prerogative in the affairs of the East India Company was controlled by The Parliament in England.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In March 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed the Cripps Mission to resolve Indian political crisis because he was under pressure from the US President Roosevelt and of the gravity of the Japanese war menace on India’s borders.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : William Logan (1841–1914) was a Scottish officer of the Madras Civil Service under the British Government. Before his appointment as Collector of Malabar, he had served in the area for about twenty years in the capacity of Magistrate and Judge. He was conversant in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Round Table Conference officially inaugurated by George V on November 12, 1930 in Royal Gallery House of Lords at London and chaired by the British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald. The three British political parties were represented by sixteen delegates.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : On 11 May 1661, the marriage treaty of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV of Portugal, placed Bombay in the possession of the British Empire, as part of Catherine’s dowry to Charles.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : S.N. Banerjee started an all-India campaign for restoring the entrance age of 21 and for simultaneous ICS examination in India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lord Mayo was stabbed when he was in Andamans. He was first and last Viceory murdered in India.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Indian Independence Act 1947 passed on 1st August 1947 by the British Parliament in reign of Prime minister Clement Attlee (Labour party). On 14 August 1947 India divided into two dominion states Pakistan (14th August) and India (15th August).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Charter act of 1813 ended the monopoly of the East India Company in India, however the company’s monopoly in trade with china and trade in tea with India was kept intact. Thus, trade with India for all commodities except Tea was thrown open to all British subjects.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Before the Regulating Act was passed in 1773, there was A Committee of 24 at home to, administer the East India Company.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : It was passed to expand participation of Indians in the government of India. The Act embodied the reforms recommended in the report of the Secretary of State for India, Edwin Montagu, and the Viceroy, Lord Chemlsford. The Act covered ten years, from 1919 to 1929. The Act received royal assent on 23 December 1919.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The policy is most commonly associated with Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor General of the East India Company in India between 1848 and 1856.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The exclusive right of trading between The Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan was granted to the East India Company.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Despite holding a monopoly, the East India Company had faced competition from what it had termed as the ‘interlopers’ represented by the British free merchants.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Regulating Act 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to overhaul the management of the East India Company’s rule in India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Lord Mayo was killed by an Afridi Pathan Sher Ali Afridi in Port Blair of Andaman and Nicobar on 8th Feb, 1972.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Under this provision Lord William Bentinck became the first Governor-General of India. It deprived the Governors of Bombay and Madras of their legislative powers. For the first time, the Governor-General’s Government was known as the ‘Government of India’ and his council as the ‘India Council’ in 1858.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The British Indian Association was founded on October 29, 1851 at Calcutta with Raja Radhakanta Dev and Debendranath Tagore as its President and Secretary respectively. Other members of the Association included Ramgopal Ghosh, Peary Chand Mitra and Krishnadas Pal. Its membership was kept exclusive to Indians.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 has long been held as one of England’s greatest military achievements. The successful defence of the kingdom against invasion on such an unprecedented scale boosted the prestige of England’s Queen Elizabeth I and encouraged a sense of English pride and nationalism.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Government of India Act 1833 converted the title into “Governor-General of India.” The title “Viceroy and Governor-General” was first used in the queen’s proclamation appointing Viscount Canning in 1858.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Governor of the East India Company was Elected by the members of the East India Company itself.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Dalhousie introduced Postage stamp, he also introduced Railway, Telegram and PWD.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : British member of Parliament (House of commons) Benziman Disraeli admitted the revolt of 1857 as a National Revolt. V.D. SavarKar describe this revolt as the Indian’s first struggle for Independence.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The first constitutional measure Introduced by the British in India which worked till the framing of the Indian Constitution was the Act of 1935.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Regulating Act of 1773 was the first landmark in the constitutional development of India. Via this act, the British Parliament for the first time interfered into affairs of India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, he remained, loyal to the British Empire and was noted for his actions in saving European lives. After the rebellion, he penned the booklet ‘The Causes of the Indian Mutiny’ – a daring critique, at the time, of British policies that he blamed for causing the revolt. Believing that the future of Muslims was threatened by the rigidity of their orthodox outlook, Sir Syed began promoting Western–style scientific education by founding modern schools and journals and organising Muslim entrepreneurs.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lytton held an Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877 to announce Queen Victoria as the Empress of India at a time when a large part of the country was in the grip of a severe famine.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Thomas Munro and Captain Reid known as the father of the Ryotwari Settlement in India. It was firstly introduced in district ‘BARAMAHAL’ of Tamilnadu. By this settlement the Ryott-Cultivator was recognised as a owner of field and he had to pay revenue to British Government directly.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The East India Company was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. Incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600, it was started as a monopolistic trading body so that England could participate in the East Indian spice trade.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Indian Mutiny, also called Sepoy Mutiny, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–58. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company, it spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance an armed resistance of the combined body of Muslim fakirs (sufis) and Hindu sannyasis (yogis) against the dominance of the English East India Company in Bengal. This resistance began in 1760 and continued for more than four decades.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The British Government in defiance of the opinion of all parties in India had deliberately decided to appoint an all British Commission.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Treaty of Mangalore was signed between Tipu Sultan and the British East India Company on 11 March 1784. It was signed in Mangalore and brought an end to the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Viceroy Mayo- Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, KP, GCSI, PC, styled Lord Naas between 1842 and 1867, called Lord Mayo in India, was a statesman, Viceroy of India and prominent member of the British Conservative Party from Dublin, Ireland. Viceroy Lytton- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton GCB GCSI GCIE PC was an English statesman, Conservative politician, and poet. He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880 – during his tenure as which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India – and as British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891. Viceroy Lansdowne- Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC was a British statesman who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Viceroy Linlithgow- Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, KG, KT, FRSE, GCSI, GCIE, OBE was a British Unionist politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator. He served as Governor-General and Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943. He was usually referred to simply as Linlithgow.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The trade of tea was most profitable to Britishers that’s why they turned to cultivator in Assam to grow Tea.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : February 20, 1947 had premier Attlee conceded that the British would quit India by June, 1948.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Hindu Widows Remarriage Act of 1856, provided legal safeguards against loss of certain forms of inheritance for remarrying a Hindu widow, though, under the Act, the widow forsook any inheritance due her from her deceased husband.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The same person acted as deputy Dewan on behalf of the East Indian Company and as Deputy Subedar on behalf of the Bengal Nawab. The British East India Company was suffering from massive amounts of debts incurred primarily from annual contractual payments due to the British government totaling £400,000 per year.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : After Jallianwala Bagh tragedy a commission was estb. under William Wilson Hunter in 1919. It is known as Hunter commission but the report of commission was rejected by INC,and new commission was estb. under Madan Mohan Malviya.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : the british colonial policies in india proved moat ruinous for indian handicrafts. The real blow to Indian handicrafts fell after 1813, when they lost not only their foreign markets but, what was of much greater importance, their market in India itself. The Industrial Revolution in Britain completely transformed Britain’s economy and its economic relations with India.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : At about 9 p.m. on the evening of 11 September 1855 Conolly was attacked and killed at the Collector’s Residence at West Hill Bungalow, Calicut by a small group of Mappilas. Conolly was buried in what is now Conolly Park, near South Beach Road; the headstone of his tomb was moved to the premises of the C.S.I. St. Mary’s English Church, Calicut in 1997.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : He was the first Governor of Bihar and Orissa, first Indian Advocate-General of Bengal, first Indian to become a member of the Viceroy’s executive Council and the first Indian to become a member of the British ministry. He is sometimes also referred as Satyendra Prasanno Sinha or Satyendra Prasad Sinha.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Treaty of Surat (6 March 1775) was a treaty by which Raghunathrao, one of the claimants to the throne of the Peshwa, agreed to cede Salsette and Bassein Fort to the English, in consideration of being himself restored to Poona. The military operations that followed are known as the First Anglo-Maratha War.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Many of them lost their zamindaris to the new class of urban-based absentee landlords due to the introduction of the zamindari or the new class of urban-based absentee landlords due to the introduction of zamindari or the permanent settlement, and the strict manner of revenue collection by the British.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Burma achieved independence from British rule on 4 January 1948.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : On 8 August 1940, early in the Battle of Britain, the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, made the so-called “August Offer”.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : British Introduced the railways in India (1853) to facilitate British commerce and administrative control.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In 1877 the entrance age to ICS was reduced from 21 to 19.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control, had an important effect on spreading English learning and female education in India. When in 1855 he sent a despatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India.Wood suggested that primary colleges must adopt vernacular languages, high schools must adopt Anglo verncular language and on college level English medium for education. This is known as Wood’s despatch. Vocational and women’s education were not stressed upon.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The correct chronological order of the Governors-General during British India were Wellesley, Marquess of Hastings, Amherst, Bentinck.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Dalhousie introduced the Doctrine of Lapse i.e any princely state under the direct influence of East India Company, as a vassal state under the British Subsidiary System would automatically be annexed if the ruler was either “manifestly in competent or died without a male heir. The series of state annexed – Satara, Jaipur, Sambhal pur, Jhansi (1854).

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Englishmen’s easy success in trade and in establishing independent and fortified settlements at Madras and at Bombay, and the preoccupation of Aurangzeb with the anti-Maratha campaigns led the English to abandon the role of humble petitioners.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Raja Ram Mohan Roy convinced the British in 1829 to outlaw Sati.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The act was proposed by Lord Lytton, then Viceroy of India, and was unanimously passed by the Viceroy’s Council on 14 March 1878.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Mahatma Gandhi gave up the title of Kaiser-i-Hind and returned all the war medals which were awarded to him by the British for his war services (during the First World War) in support of the Khilafat demand when the Central Khilafat Committee organised a general all-India hartal on August 1, 1920.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS, also known as Clive of India, Commander-in-Chief of British India, was a British officer and privateer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Throughout the 19th century intermittent uprisings occurred in Malabar, especially in the Ernad and Valluvanad taluks.Twenty two such riots were reported from different parts of Malabar.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Britisher invested in agriculture to fulfil the demand of raw materials required for industries in Britain. So, British persuaded or forced cultivator in Bengal to grow Jute (it also known as golden fibre).

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Rowlatt Acts, (February 1919), legislation passed by the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : In 1614 Sir Thomas Roe was instructed by James I to visit the court of Jahangir, the Moghul emperor of Hindustan to arrange a commercial treaty and to secure for the East India Company sites for commercial agencies. Sir Thomas was successful, and though the Great Moghul Jahangir was contemptuous of the presents sent him by James I, he sent him a remarkably polite letter.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The headquarters of East India Company were located at Fort William in Bengal. Fort William is a fort built in Calcutta (presently Kolkata) on the eastern banks of the River Hooghly, the major distributary of the River Ganges, during the early years of the Bengal Presidency of British India. It was named after King William III of England. In front of the Fort is the Maidan, which used to be a part of the Fort and is the largest urban park in Calcutta.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Sadr-Di-wani-Adalat during Mughal and British rule in India was a High Court of Civil and Revenue matters.The Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat was the Supreme Court of Revenue in British India established at Calcutta by Warren Hastings in 1772. It was reformed in 1780 and again in 1793 by the British Parliament.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : British established a trading post in 1612 at Gujarat.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : On 2nd September 1946 the Interim Government of India was formed. This temporary government was formed from the Constituent Assembly of India (which was then newly elected). This government was entrusted the task of helping the transition of India and Pakistan from British rule to Independence as two separate nations.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : After the commencement of the government of India Act-1858, Viceroy of the state was to British Governor-General of India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Naoroji Dadabhai Is the author of books such as Poverty and Un-British Rule In India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : 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 Fort William.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The inauguration of the Ganapati and Shivaji Festivals was done by 1895.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Asiatic Society was founded by civil servant Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Sir William Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The introduction of the bill led to intense opposition in Britain and from British settlers in India that ultimately played on racial tension before it was enacted in 1884 in a severely compromised state. The bitter controversy deepened antagonism between the British and Indians and was a prelude to the formation of the Indian National Congress in the next two years. There was also a strong protest among Europeans.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lytton put on the statute book two obnoxious measures— the vernacular press Act and Indian Arms Act. Lytton’ s unpopular acts provoked a great storm of opposition in the country and led to the organisation of various political associations for carrying an anti-Government propaganda in the country.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lord Canning (1858–62): The Indian Councils Act of 1862 was passed, which proved to be a landmark in the constitutional history of India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : One of the most remarkable acts passed during the times of Lord Curzon was the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act of 1904. This act made any injury to the protected monuments an offence punishable under the law.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : After Sepoy Mutiny rule established in 1857, British govt. started ruling over India, Governor general became the Viceroy and Lord Canning became the last Governor General and first Viceroy.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Daman and Diu were once part of a combined union territory along with Goa (a Konkani-speaking region), before Goa became a state in 1987. The use of Portuguese, which was the territory’s official language during the colonial period, is in decline and relegated to home use.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Mountbatten had replaced Lord Wavell as the viceroy of India in 1947.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The First Opium War, fought over opium trade, financial reparations, and diplomatic status, began in 1839 and was concluded by the Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing) in 1842.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Pitt’s India Act 1784 or the East India Company Act 1784 was passed in the British Parliament to rectify the defects of the Regulating Act 1773. It resulted in dual control or joint government in India by Crown in Great Britain and the British East India Company, with crown having ultimate authority.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Wellesley’s aims were expansionism and imperialism. He wan­ted to expand the British dominions in India to such an extent that it should become the sovereign power in India. His expansionist mind would not remain content with British remaining one of the powers in India, as such he set himself to the task of converting India into an empire of Britain. Another aim, which was ancillary to his main objective, was removal of French influence from India and to make possibility of French territorial expansion of India impossible.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Dadabhai Naroji was the first Anglo Indian to elect the British Parliament. He also known as Grand Old Man of India. He introduced, drain of wealth theory.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : English East India Company became the legitimate masters of Bengal Suba after battle of Buxar which was held on 22 Oct, 1764 between East lndia company led by Hector Munro and Mir Qasim (Nawab of Bengal), Mughal emperor Shah Alam, Nawab of Avadh Shira-jud-daula.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Dyarchy, also spelled diarchy, system of double government introduced by the Government of India Act (1919) for the provinces of British India. Dyarchy was introduced as a constitutional reform by Edwin Samuel Montagu (secretary of state for India, 1917–22) and Lord Chelmsford (viceroy of India, 1916–21).

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Nana Saheb was the adopted son of Peshwa Baji Rao II. His annual pension was stopped because the British refused to recognize him as the legitimate heir to the throne as he was adopted.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announced on 20 February 1947 that: the British Government would grant full self-government to British India by 30 June 1948 at the latest, The future of the Princely States would be decided after the date of final transfer is decided.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Ripon was a true democrat. He took some steps towards liberalizing the administration in India. His aim was to give popular and political education to the Indians. He formulated the local self government and laid the foundations of representative institutions in India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The statements that are correct related to the Revolt of the Bhils are They defied British authority for 50 years from 1818. Their revolt was finally ended by the British through military operations as well as conciliatory measures.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Gandhi had been provoked into crusading for the lot of the Asians in South Africa by the British law called cl Asiatic Registration.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The civil rebellions against the British was initially started at Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Charles Hardinge was the Viceroy when the capital of India was shifted from Calcutta (now Kolkata) to Delhi in 1911. There is a well known medical college in Delhi named after the Viceroy.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Joseph-François Dupleix was a colonial administrator and governor-general of the French territories in India, who nearly realized his dream of establishing a French empire in India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Battle of Wandiwash was a decisive battle in India during the Seven Years’ War. The Count de Lally’s army, burdened by a lack of naval support and funds, attempted to regain the fort at Vandavasi, now in Tamil Nadu. This was the Third Carnatic War fought between the French and the British.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The statements that are correct related to the Charter Act of 1793 were Renewed the Charter of the Company for 20 more years. Regulated the finances of the Company. Prohibited the Commander-in-Chief from being a member of the Governor General’s Council.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Britishers established there first trading center in Surat. After that in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : During the reign of Dalhousie East India Company annexed Punjab in 1849. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company in 1849, and was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British control. In 1858, the Punjab, along with the rest of British India, came under the direct rule of the British crown.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Subsidiary Alliance System was “Non-Intervention Policy” used by Lord Wellesley who was the Governor-General (1798-1805) to establish British Empire in India. According to this system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of British army.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Lord Ripon is known to have granted the Indians first taste of freedom by introducing the Local Self Government in 1882. His scheme of local self government developed the Municipal institutions which had been growing up in the country ever since India was occupied by the British Crown.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Battle of Wandiwash, (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history of India, a confrontation between the French, under the comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. It was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle in southern India during the Seven Years War (1756–63).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Charter granted to the East India Company. Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a formal charter to the London merchants trading to the East Indies, hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade in what is now Indonesia.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : By the Act of 1773, Parliament granted a loan of Rs 400,000 to the East India Company.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Artisans and craftsmen were ruined by the large-scale influx of cheap British.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Bal Gangadhar Tilak was imprisoned in 1908 to Mandalay for six years. Tilak criticise the Britishers in his newspaper, under a article name ‘Bharat ki Durdasha’ and this became the reason for his imprisonment.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Madras was returned by the French to the British in 1748 by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Treaty of Salbai was signed on 17 May 1782, by representatives of the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company after long negotiations to settle the outcome of the First Anglo-Maratha War. David Anderson concluded the Treaty of Salbai on behalf of the East India Company.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The master stroke of Lord Wellesley to establish British paramountcy in India was Subsidiary Alliance.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The very conditions of British rule helped the growth of national sentiment. Roy was the first Indian leader to start an agitation for political reforms in India. There is a moral evil which, if anything, is even greater.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : In 1831 Bentinck signed a treaty with Ranjit Singh to protect the British territories from Russian menace.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : As a result of the partition of Bengal announced by Lord Curzon in 1905, Bengal was partitioned into two provinces of Bengal and Eastern Bengal & Assam.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Regulating Act, (1773), legislation passed by the British Parliament for the regulation of the British East India Company’s Indian territories, mainly in Bengal.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In India Lord Macaulay (Thomas Balington Macaulay) is fully credited with the official introduction of English education though the necessary order on the subject were given by Lord William Bentinck the governor general of India on 7th March 1835.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Ripon made remarkable contribution to the development of local government. In 1882, he abandoned the existing system of local government by the officially nominated people.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : During the time period of Indian University act,1904 Lord Curzon was the Viceroy of India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Simon Commission had visited India on April 3, 1926 Lord Irwin was appointed 30th Viceroy and Governor-General of India. In 1927, British government appointed a commission under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lord Chelmsford was the Viceroy of India when Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place on April 13, 1919.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : In 1767 Maratha Peshwa Madhavrao defeated both Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan and entered Srirangapatna, the capital of Mysore.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The following on the chronology of appointment of Viceroys were Reading, Irwin, Wellingdon and Linlithgow.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : On account of severe British repression the Civil Disobedience movement was again suspended In July 1933 and people were asked to offer Satyagraha individually.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Morley became secretary of state for India in Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s Cabinet of 1905.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Non-Cooperation Movement under Gandhi was in full swing during the Viceroyalty of Reading.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Charter act of 1813 ended the monopoly of the East India Company in India, however the company’s monopoly in trade with china and trade in tea was remained intact. The charter act of 1813, for the first time explicitly defined the constitutional position of the British territories in India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Queen Victoria’s famous proclamation, A Royal Durbar was held at Allahabad in November 1, 1858. A proclamation was issued by Queen Victoria. It was read at the Durbar by Lord Canning, who was the last Governor General and the first Viceroy of India.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1773 to 1785. The first governor-general in India (of Bengal) was Warren Hastings, the first official governor-general of British India was Lord William Bentinck, and the first governor-general of the Dominion of India was Lord Mountbatten.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Warren Hastings is the first British Governor General of Bengal. He took the charge as a Governor General on 20th October,1773.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Canning was the first Viceroy of India. The title of Viceroy was created in 1858 after the mutiny of 1857. Before 1858, East India Company was ruling large parts of India and the head of administration of the East India Company was called Governor General.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : After the year 1853, a substantial amount of British capital had been invested in the railways.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The British Governor General and Viceroy who served for the longest period in India was Lord Dalhousie.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Under this provision Lord William Bentinck became the first Governor-General of India. It deprived the Governors of Bombay and Madras of their legislative powers. For the first time, the Governor-General’s Government was known as the ‘Government of India’ and his council as the ‘India Council’ in 1858.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Government of India Act 1833 converted the title into “Governor-General of India.” The title “Viceroy and Governor-General” was first used in the queen’s proclamation appointing Viscount Canning in 1858.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Governor of the East India Company was Elected by the members of the East India Company itself.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The first constitutional measure Introduced by the British in India which worked till the framing of the Indian Constitution was the Act of 1935.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Regulating Act of 1773 was the first landmark in the constitutional development of India. Via this act, the British Parliament for the first time interfered into affairs of India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Lord Linlithgow (1936 – 1944) was the viceroy of India during Quit India Movement. The Quit India Movement (also known as the August Movement) was a civil disobedience movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8,1942 in Mumbai for complete independence

Answer: Option C
Explanation : This event also started the process of transforming the British East India Company from a group of merchants, to an organization with military force. In 1614, King James I of England sent a diplomat, Sir Thomas Roe, to visit the Mughal emperor, Jahangir, and negotiate a trade treaty.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Subsidiary Alliance System was “Non-Intervention Policy” used by Lord Wellesley who was the Governor-General (1798-1805) to establish British Empire in India. According to this system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of British army.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The doctrine of lapse was an annexation policy applied by the British East India Company in India until 1858. The policy is most commonly associated with Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor General of the East India Company in India between 1848 and 1856.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Treaty of Amritsar (1809) The Treaty of Amritsar of 1809 was an agreement between the British East India Company and Ranjit Singh, the Sikh leader who founded the Sikh empire.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Lord Ripon is known to have granted the Indians first taste of freedom by introducing the Local Self Government in 1882. His scheme of local self government developed the Municipal institutions which had been growing up in the country ever since India was occupied by the British Crown.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Battle of Wandiwash, (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history of India, a confrontation between the French, under the comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. It was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle in southern India during the Seven Years War (1756–63).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Charter granted to the East India Company. Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a formal charter to the London merchants trading to the East Indies, hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade in what is now Indonesia.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : By the Act of 1773, Parliament granted a loan of Rs 400,000 to the East India Company.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Artisans and craftsmen were ruined by the large-scale influx of cheap British.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The East India Company was incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600. It was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India during the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar (1556-1605).

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The British India Society (1839): Founded in London with the efforts of William Adam, one of the friends of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. He along with George Thompson, William Ednis, and Major General Briggs organised meetings and enlightened people about the miserable conditions in India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The All-India Muslim League failed to form the government in any province. The Congress ministries resigned in October and November 1939, in protest against Viceroy Lord Linlithgow’s action of declaring India to be a belligerent in the Second World War without consulting the Indian people.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : In 1767 Mysore was a powerful state under Hyder Ali. In 1769, the first Anglo-Mysore war was fought in which Haider Ali defeated the British and Treaty of Madras was signed between them. Haider Ali occupied almost the whole of Carnatic.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Regulating Act, (1773), legislation passed by the British Parliament for the regulation of the British East India Company’s Indian territories, mainly in Bengal. The act was amended and the government of India was recast by Prime Minister William Pitt’s India Act of 1784.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : According to the terms of the treaty of Srirangapattanam, Malabar was ceded to the British.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Treaty of Amritsar, (April 25, 1809), pact concluded between Charles T. Metcalfe, representing the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, head of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab. The British wanted a defensive treaty against the French and control of Punjab to the Sutlej River.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : When the East India Company came into existence, England was ruled by the Stuarts.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : From 1615 to 1618, he was ambassador to the court at Agra, India, of the Great Mughal Ruler, Jahangir. The principal object of the mission was to obtain protection for the East India Company`s factory at Surat. At the Mughal court, Roe allegedly became a favorite of Jahangir and may have been his drinking partner.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India decided to partition Bengal for administrative purposes, creating a new province of East Bengal and Assam, with a population of 31 million people and with its capital at Dhaka.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Indian Rebellion of 1857 is also called the Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Mutiny, North India’s First War of Independence or North India’s first struggle for independence. It began on 10 May 1857 at Meerut, as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company’s army.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Birsa Munda was a great tribal leader belonging to the Munda Adivasi, the movement operate against British in Chhota Nagpur (Jharkhand) region.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The single biggest item of British capital investment in India was Railways.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Warren Hastings was an English statesman and the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor General of India. Hastings brought the Dual Government system to an end by enforcing the Regulating Act of 1773.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Act for the first time introduced local representation in the Indian government. Rule of company in India ended and the rule of Crown started. The three presidencies (Madras, Bombay and Bengal) were three separate presidencies brought into a common system.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The government of India Act (1858) also known as the act for Good Government of India transferred the power to the British crown from East India company.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Yashwantrao was the last to sign a treaty with the British, on 24 December 1805 at a place called Rajpur Ghat on the bank of Beas River. The treaty was named ‘The Treaty of Peace and Amity between the British Government and Yashwantrao Holkar.’

Answer: Option B
Explanation : British subjects in 1873 had been exempted from trial by Indian magistrates, and in cases involving death or transportation they could only be tried by a high court. But by 1883 the viceroy, Lord Ripon, proposed to make British subjects amenable to sessions courts, over which Indians were now senior enough in the civil service to preside. This proposal as embodied in the Ilbert Bill provoked furious protests, especially among the Calcutta (Kolkata) European business community and the Bengal indigo planters, and there was covert sympathy from many officials.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Baji Rao II (10 January, 1775 – 28 January, 1851) was the last Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, and governed from 1795 to 1818. He was installed as a puppet ruler by the Maratha nobles, whose growing power prompted him to flee his capital Pune and sign the Treaty of Bassein (1802) with the British. The last Peshwa was Baji Rao-II. Duringhrs reign the peshwa ship was abolished by the British Government (Lord Harding-I, third Anglo Maratha battle).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Vernacular Press Act, in British India, law enacted in 1878 to curtail the freedom of the Indian-language (i.e., non-English) press. The law was repealed in 1881 by Lytton’s successor as viceroy, Lord Ripon (governed 1880–84).

Answer: Option B
Explanation : By virtue of the Doctrine of Lapse, Lord Dalhousie annexed Sambalpur in 1849, as Narayan Singh had no male successor to succeed him. During the uprising of 1857 the sepoys set Surendra Sai and his brother Udyant Sai free. The resistance to British continued in Sambalpur under the leadership of Surendra Sai.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Charter Acts of 1813 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which renewed the charter issued to the British East India Company, and continued the Company’s rule in India. However, the Company’s commercial monopoly was ended, except for the tea trade and the trade with China.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Goa is not among the regions where the Britishers had first set up trading posts.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Dadabhai Naoroji’s work focused on the drain of wealth from India to England during colonial rule of British in India. One of the reasons that the Drain theory is attributed to Naoroji is his decision to estimate the net national profit of India, and by extension, the effect that colonisation has on the country.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : All of these four leaders fought against British in 1857 Revolt -Kunwar Singh- Bihar, Tanitia Tope- Gwalior, Nana Saheb- Kanpur, Maulavi Ahmaduallah- Faizabad.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Agriculture was mainly invested by British during colonial period, the raw material related to agriculture was compulsory for industry during colonial period.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The British attitude towards granting India independence changed partly owing to the Change in the government of the UK, Impact of World War II, Growing tide of Indian Nationalism.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : In 1650, Gabriel Boughton an employee of the Company obtained a license for trade in Bengal. An English factory was set up in 1651 at Hugli.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Its true that Gandhi did have a compromising attitude towards the British during WWII and even stated that “We do not seek independence out of Britain’s ruin”. Though Gandhi was the most influential figure in the political scenario at the time, it’s important to remember that simply because he wanted to maintain a compromising attittude towards the British, many of the other political leaders of the time did not wish to do so.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The United East Indian Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC), referred to by the British as the Dutch East India Company, was originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on Dutch spice trade.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The East India Company had taken Bombay from Charles II. On 21 May 1662, the marriage treaty of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV of Portugal, placed Bombay in possession of the British Empire, as part of dowry of Catherine to Charles.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The new proletariat class which emerged in India on account of the British economic policies, consisted of Money lenders, Landlords, Traders.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : At Qasim Bazar in Bengal was the East India Company given permission to trade and build a factory by the Mughals in 1651. East India Company established a factory at Qasim Bazar by the permission Mughals in 1651.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The August Offer was a proposal made by the British government in 1940 promising the expansion of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India to include more Indians, the establishment of an advisory war council, giving full weight to minority opinion, and the recognition of Indians’ right to frame their own constitution (after the end of the war). The Congress rejected the August Offer. Nehru said, “Dominion status concept is dead as a door nail.” Gandhi said that the declaration had widened the gulf between the nationalists and the British rulers.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Jatin Das, while fasting in the prison, written to the British governor, The individual must die so that the nation may live. Today, I must die so that India may win freedom and glory.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Naval Ratings mutiny took place in 1946. Basically, it started as the sailors were dissatisfied with the food they were given. This snowballed into a mutiny against British rule. The mutiny started in Bombay Dock.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : In Kerala, temples are managed by Devaswom Board,which comes under the government of Kerala.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : After the Punjab disturbances, O’Dyer was relieved of his office by the government of Britain.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Delhi was officially announced as the capital of British Raj by the then-Emperor George V, on December 12, 1911. The capital was shifted from Calcutta as Delhi was the financial and political seat of many earlier empires and was located closer to the geographical center of India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : To declare the assumption of the Government of India by the crown a Durbar was held at Allahabad on November 1, 1858, by the Viceroy Lord Canning. Queen`s proclamation was read by Lord Canning. As per the proclamation, the administration of India came into the direct hands of British Government.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Cornwallis realised that in order to consolidate the British rule in India, it was very important to organise the civil services. Civil Services was started by Lord Cornwallis and hence he is called the “Father of Indian Civil Service”.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Churchill said that the Charter did not apply to India, for he had ‘not become His Majesty’s first minister to preside over the liquidation of the British empire’.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : As per the Rowlatt act the govemment had the power to arrest any person without showing any reason, the acts were threat to the civil liberties. Later, this act became the reason for occurrence of Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In 1756, the British formally declared war against France. In addition, Spanish attempts to aid France in the Americas had failed, and France also suffered defeats against British forces in India. The Seven Years’ War ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Lord Mountbatten: Last Viceroy of India (1947-1948) Lord Mountbatten served as last Viceroy of India from 12 February 1947 – 15 August 1947; and then first Governor General of Free India from 15 August 1947 – 21 June 1948. During his tenure, India got independence in the form of two dominions of India Pakistan.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : British Parliament brought the Government of India Act, 1858, which made the following changes: i. Transferred powers from the East India Company to the Crown. ii. A member of British Parliament was made secretary of state of India to exercise powers on behalf of the Crown and was responsible to the British Parliament. iii. The Governor General for India was provided with an Executive Council, whose decision he was empowered to override.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : At that time, Lord Hardinge was the Governor General of the British held territories in India, and he was the one that shifted the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Till the end of the 17th Century the growth of the executive and legislative powers of the East india Company depended on Crown.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Battle of Porto Novo was fought on 1 July 1781 between forces of the Kingdom of Mysore and British East India Company in the place called Porto Novo (now known as Parangipettai) on the Indian subcontinent, during the Second Anglo-Mysore War. The British force, numbering more than 8,000 under the command of Sir Eyre Coote defeated a force estimated at 40,000 under the command of Hyder Ali.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The naval Battle of Swally, also known as Battle of Suvali, took place on 29–30 November 1612 off the coast of Suvali (anglicised to Swally) a village near the Surat city (now in Gujarat, India) and was a victory for four English East India Company galleons over four Portuguese galleons and 26 barks (rowing vessels with no armament).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British house of commons from the Finsbury Central Constituency in the elections of 1892 by a narrow margin of 3 votes by defeating Fredrick Thomas Penton. Being a subject of the British crown (Being a citizen of British India) he was allowed to take part in the election.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was Womesh Chandra Banerjee.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Nil Darpan (The Indigo Mirror) is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859. The play was published in Dhaka in 1860, under a pseudonym of the author. The play was essential to Nil Vidroha, better known as the Indigo Revolt of February–March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to sow indigo in their fields to protest against exploitative farming under the British Raj.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Treaty of Lahore was signed on 9 March 1846 after the First Sikh War. After the defeat of the Sikhs at the Battle of Sobraon the British were able to march into Lahore without any further battles. After the British reached the city of Lahore the treaty was signed.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Emperor Farrukhsiyar issued the British East India Company such a farman in 1717. It allowed the Company to live and trade for free in Mughal India except for an annual payment. They were also given the right to issue dastak or trade permits to transfer goods, which the officials largely used for their own gains.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Lord Irwin was the Governor General and Viceroy of India (1926-1931). On April 3, 1926 Lord Irwin was appointed 30th Viceroy and Governor-General of India. This was the most tumultuous period for the politics of India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Max Muller

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Thomas Babington Macaulay was the secretary to the Board of control of India during the British rule. He was the secretary under Lord Grey from 1832 to 1833. He is known for his Minute on Indian Education which came out in February 1835. He wanted to teach English to the people of India and not Sanskrit or Persian.

Answer: Option A
Explanation :
I. Appointment of the Simon Commission – November 1927
II. Formation of the first Labour Government in Britain – January 1924
III. Submission of the Nehru report – August 1928
IV. Inauguration of the First Round Table Conference – November 1930

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Secretary of State is also deemed as Political Head of India. The post was created in Charter Act of 1858. The first Secretary of state was Lord Stanley.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Naoroji published Poverty and un-British Rule in India in 1901. It analysed the nature of the British rule in India.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The British Governor- General Lord Curzon shown great interest in the preservation of ancient monuments.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : When the East India Company was established India was ruled by a Mughal Emperor.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Shivaram Hari Rajguru (24 August 1908 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian revolutionary from Maharashtra, known mainly for his involvement in the assassination of a British Raj police officer.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation to Britain of British and other Allied forces in Europe from 26 May to 4 June 1940. After the Phoney War, the Battle of France began in earnest on 10 May 1940.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Bengal British India Society founded in Calcutta on 20 April 1843, was the Second political public association to be formed in British India, the first being the zamindari association (1837).

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Government of India Act 1858 was passed on August 2, 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the British East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transference of its functions to the British Crown.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The East India Association was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866, in collaboration with Indians and retired British officials in London. It superseded the London Indian Society and was a platform for discussing matters and ideas about India, and to provide representation for Indians to the Government.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Satyendranath Tagore became first Indian who cracked I.C.S. or Indian Civil Service examination.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Regulating Act ( May 3, 1773): In 1765, after the battle of Buxer the East India Company got the Diwani ( Right to collect Revenue) of Bengal , Bihar and Orissa. The Governor General was assisted by four councilors. Their tenure of office was fixed for 5 years.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Governor General William Bentinck had entertained Ranjit Singh with great honour at Ropar.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Government of India Act 1858 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on August 2, 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the British East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transference of its functions to the British Crown.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Government of India Act 1858 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on August 2, 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the British East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transference of its functions to the British Crown.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Palmerston was the prime minister of Britain at the time of commencement of the Government of India Act, 1858.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : In August 1858, the British parliament passed an act that set an end to the rule of the company. The control of the British government in India was transferred to the British crown. At this time, Victoria was the queen of Britain.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The British Parliament was the supreme body in the Britain at the time of commencement of the Government of India Act- 1858.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms or more briefly known as Mont-Ford Reforms were reforms introduced by the colonial government in British India to introduce self-governing institutions gradually to India. The reforms take their name from Edwin Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India during the latter parts of World War I and Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India between 1916 and 1921. The reforms were outlined in the Montagu-Chelmsford Report prepared in 1918 and formed the basis of the Government of India Act 1919.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The first Secretary of state was Lord Stanley, who prior to 2 August 1858, served as President of the Board of Control. The Secretary of State was now the political head of the India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The British colony of Burma was part of the British run-state in India, the Empire of India, from 1824 to 1937. It is not the provision of government of India act, 1935.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1772 to 1785.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Indian National congress was fromed in 1885 during the Viceroyalty of Lord Dufferin. The first Chairman of INC was W.C.Banerjee.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Simla Conference called by Viceroy Lord Wavell (to discuss the so-called Wavell Plan) in June 1945 failed on account of Jinnah’s demand that the Muslim League alone would nominate Muslim members to the Executive Council, the demand of the Congress to include the members of all communities in their quota to the Executive Council, the demand of the Scheduled Castes to reserved seats in the Executive Council in Proportion to their population.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Immediately after putting his legs in India, Lord Cornwallis in 1786 opined once-for-all settlement with the zamindars for the collection of land revenue. In fact, Lord Cornwallis cut the Gordian knot in 1790 when the decennial permanent settlement system was decided to be introduced in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lytton was selected as Viceroy to India to fulfill the ambitious plans of Disraeli in Afghanistan.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Dadabhai Naoroji said that the exploitative nature of British rule was ‘Bleeding India White’.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Tipu Sultan had requested Napoleon for help in driving the British away from India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : On June 18th 1858, Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi, one of the most important figures of India’s First War of Independence, died while fighting against the British in Gwalior.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The title “Viceroy and Governor-General” was first used in the queen’s proclamation appointing Viscount Canning in 1858.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Mutiny was brought to an end with the fall of Gwalior into the hands of the British in India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Permanent Settlement (also Premanent Settlement of Bengal) was introduced by Lord Cornwallis in 1793. It was an agreement between the British East India Company and the Landlords of Bengal to settle the Land Revenue to be raised.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Indian Councils Act 1909, commonly known as the Morley-Minto Reforms (or as the Minto-Morley Reforms), was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the governance of British India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The writers of the East India Company had their training in the college at Haileybury in England.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Gandhiji launched Quit India Movement on 8th August 1942 in Bombay session of congress. It is also known as August revolutoion.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Ripon is known as Father of Local Self Government in India. This was not enacted by any act, it was a resolution that was passed in 1882.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Napoleon Bonaparte war lord is also known as ‘little corporal’.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Introduction of western education was another important factor which paved the way for the growth of nationalism. Three main agencies were responsible for the spread of modem education in India. They were the foreign Christian missionaries, the British Government and the progressive Indians.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : During the Viceroyalty of Sir John Lawrence the bone of contention between India and Bhutan was Duars.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Vasco Da Gama sailed from Lisbon on July 8, 1497, with a crew of 170 men. He arrived at Calicut (now Kozhikode) on May 20, 1498.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The island of Bombay had been given to the British Prince Charles II as dowry by the Portuguese.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The East India Association was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866, in collaboration with Indians and retired British officials in London. It superseded the London Indian Society and was a platform for discussing matters and ideas about India, and to provide representation for Indians to the Government.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : During the first hundred years of the British rule in India, people’s resentment and opposition to the British policies mainly surfaced in the form of tribal uprisings, peasant uprisings.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The rules of the permanent settlement made every individual zamindar and talukdar the permanent and absolute proprietors of the land under their control. As absolute proprietors of land, zamindars and talukdars were required to pay revenue to government at a rate fixed permanently.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Dual System of Government in Bengal was the brainchild of Lord Clive.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Malabar Special Police (MSP) is a paramilitary unit of the State Police of Kerala.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The age for eligibility in civil services was brought down from 21 to 19 years by Lord Lytton.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In the 18th Century the Royal prerogative in the affairs of the East India Company was controlled by The Parliament in England.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In March 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed the Cripps Mission to resolve Indian political crisis because he was under pressure from the US President Roosevelt and of the gravity of the Japanese war menace on India’s borders.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : William Logan (1841–1914) was a Scottish officer of the Madras Civil Service under the British Government. Before his appointment as Collector of Malabar, he had served in the area for about twenty years in the capacity of Magistrate and Judge. He was conversant in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Round Table Conference officially inaugurated by George V on November 12, 1930 in Royal Gallery House of Lords at London and chaired by the British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald. The three British political parties were represented by sixteen delegates.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : On 11 May 1661, the marriage treaty of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV of Portugal, placed Bombay in the possession of the British Empire, as part of Catherine’s dowry to Charles.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : S.N. Banerjee started an all-India campaign for restoring the entrance age of 21 and for simultaneous ICS examination in India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lord Mayo was stabbed when he was in Andamans. He was first and last Viceory murdered in India.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Indian Independence Act 1947 passed on 1st August 1947 by the British Parliament in reign of Prime minister Clement Attlee (Labour party). On 14 August 1947 India divided into two dominion states Pakistan (14th August) and India (15th August).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Charter act of 1813 ended the monopoly of the East India Company in India, however the company’s monopoly in trade with china and trade in tea with India was kept intact. Thus, trade with India for all commodities except Tea was thrown open to all British subjects.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Before the Regulating Act was passed in 1773, there was A Committee of 24 at home to, administer the East India Company.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : It was passed to expand participation of Indians in the government of India. The Act embodied the reforms recommended in the report of the Secretary of State for India, Edwin Montagu, and the Viceroy, Lord Chemlsford. The Act covered ten years, from 1919 to 1929. The Act received royal assent on 23 December 1919.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The policy is most commonly associated with Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor General of the East India Company in India between 1848 and 1856.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The exclusive right of trading between The Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan was granted to the East India Company.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Despite holding a monopoly, the East India Company had faced competition from what it had termed as the ‘interlopers’ represented by the British free merchants.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Regulating Act 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to overhaul the management of the East India Company’s rule in India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Lord Mayo was killed by an Afridi Pathan Sher Ali Afridi in Port Blair of Andaman and Nicobar on 8th Feb, 1972.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Under this provision Lord William Bentinck became the first Governor-General of India. It deprived the Governors of Bombay and Madras of their legislative powers. For the first time, the Governor-General’s Government was known as the ‘Government of India’ and his council as the ‘India Council’ in 1858.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The British Indian Association was founded on October 29, 1851 at Calcutta with Raja Radhakanta Dev and Debendranath Tagore as its President and Secretary respectively. Other members of the Association included Ramgopal Ghosh, Peary Chand Mitra and Krishnadas Pal. Its membership was kept exclusive to Indians.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 has long been held as one of England’s greatest military achievements. The successful defence of the kingdom against invasion on such an unprecedented scale boosted the prestige of England’s Queen Elizabeth I and encouraged a sense of English pride and nationalism.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Government of India Act 1833 converted the title into “Governor-General of India.” The title “Viceroy and Governor-General” was first used in the queen’s proclamation appointing Viscount Canning in 1858.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Governor of the East India Company was Elected by the members of the East India Company itself.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Dalhousie introduced Postage stamp, he also introduced Railway, Telegram and PWD.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : British member of Parliament (House of commons) Benziman Disraeli admitted the revolt of 1857 as a National Revolt. V.D. SavarKar describe this revolt as the Indian’s first struggle for Independence.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The first constitutional measure Introduced by the British in India which worked till the framing of the Indian Constitution was the Act of 1935.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Regulating Act of 1773 was the first landmark in the constitutional development of India. Via this act, the British Parliament for the first time interfered into affairs of India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, he remained, loyal to the British Empire and was noted for his actions in saving European lives. After the rebellion, he penned the booklet ‘The Causes of the Indian Mutiny’ – a daring critique, at the time, of British policies that he blamed for causing the revolt. Believing that the future of Muslims was threatened by the rigidity of their orthodox outlook, Sir Syed began promoting Western–style scientific education by founding modern schools and journals and organising Muslim entrepreneurs.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lytton held an Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877 to announce Queen Victoria as the Empress of India at a time when a large part of the country was in the grip of a severe famine.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Thomas Munro and Captain Reid known as the father of the Ryotwari Settlement in India. It was firstly introduced in district ‘BARAMAHAL’ of Tamilnadu. By this settlement the Ryott-Cultivator was recognised as a owner of field and he had to pay revenue to British Government directly.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The East India Company was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. Incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600, it was started as a monopolistic trading body so that England could participate in the East Indian spice trade.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Indian Mutiny, also called Sepoy Mutiny, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–58. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company, it spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance an armed resistance of the combined body of Muslim fakirs (sufis) and Hindu sannyasis (yogis) against the dominance of the English East India Company in Bengal. This resistance began in 1760 and continued for more than four decades.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The British Government in defiance of the opinion of all parties in India had deliberately decided to appoint an all British Commission.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Treaty of Mangalore was signed between Tipu Sultan and the British East India Company on 11 March 1784. It was signed in Mangalore and brought an end to the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Viceroy Mayo- Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, KP, GCSI, PC, styled Lord Naas between 1842 and 1867, called Lord Mayo in India, was a statesman, Viceroy of India and prominent member of the British Conservative Party from Dublin, Ireland. Viceroy Lytton- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton GCB GCSI GCIE PC was an English statesman, Conservative politician, and poet. He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880 – during his tenure as which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India – and as British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891. Viceroy Lansdowne- Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC was a British statesman who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Viceroy Linlithgow- Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, KG, KT, FRSE, GCSI, GCIE, OBE was a British Unionist politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator. He served as Governor-General and Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943. He was usually referred to simply as Linlithgow.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The trade of tea was most profitable to Britishers that’s why they turned to cultivator in Assam to grow Tea.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : February 20, 1947 had premier Attlee conceded that the British would quit India by June, 1948.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Hindu Widows Remarriage Act of 1856, provided legal safeguards against loss of certain forms of inheritance for remarrying a Hindu widow, though, under the Act, the widow forsook any inheritance due her from her deceased husband.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The same person acted as deputy Dewan on behalf of the East Indian Company and as Deputy Subedar on behalf of the Bengal Nawab. The British East India Company was suffering from massive amounts of debts incurred primarily from annual contractual payments due to the British government totaling £400,000 per year.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : After Jallianwala Bagh tragedy a commission was estb. under William Wilson Hunter in 1919. It is known as Hunter commission but the report of commission was rejected by INC,and new commission was estb. under Madan Mohan Malviya.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : the british colonial policies in india proved moat ruinous for indian handicrafts. The real blow to Indian handicrafts fell after 1813, when they lost not only their foreign markets but, what was of much greater importance, their market in India itself. The Industrial Revolution in Britain completely transformed Britain’s economy and its economic relations with India.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : At about 9 p.m. on the evening of 11 September 1855 Conolly was attacked and killed at the Collector’s Residence at West Hill Bungalow, Calicut by a small group of Mappilas. Conolly was buried in what is now Conolly Park, near South Beach Road; the headstone of his tomb was moved to the premises of the C.S.I. St. Mary’s English Church, Calicut in 1997.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : He was the first Governor of Bihar and Orissa, first Indian Advocate-General of Bengal, first Indian to become a member of the Viceroy’s executive Council and the first Indian to become a member of the British ministry. He is sometimes also referred as Satyendra Prasanno Sinha or Satyendra Prasad Sinha.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Treaty of Surat (6 March 1775) was a treaty by which Raghunathrao, one of the claimants to the throne of the Peshwa, agreed to cede Salsette and Bassein Fort to the English, in consideration of being himself restored to Poona. The military operations that followed are known as the First Anglo-Maratha War.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Many of them lost their zamindaris to the new class of urban-based absentee landlords due to the introduction of the zamindari or the new class of urban-based absentee landlords due to the introduction of zamindari or the permanent settlement, and the strict manner of revenue collection by the British.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Burma achieved independence from British rule on 4 January 1948.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : On 8 August 1940, early in the Battle of Britain, the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, made the so-called “August Offer”.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : British Introduced the railways in India (1853) to facilitate British commerce and administrative control.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In 1877 the entrance age to ICS was reduced from 21 to 19.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control, had an important effect on spreading English learning and female education in India. When in 1855 he sent a despatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India.Wood suggested that primary colleges must adopt vernacular languages, high schools must adopt Anglo verncular language and on college level English medium for education. This is known as Wood’s despatch. Vocational and women’s education were not stressed upon.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The correct chronological order of the Governors-General during British India were Wellesley, Marquess of Hastings, Amherst, Bentinck.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Dalhousie introduced the Doctrine of Lapse i.e any princely state under the direct influence of East India Company, as a vassal state under the British Subsidiary System would automatically be annexed if the ruler was either “manifestly in competent or died without a male heir. The series of state annexed – Satara, Jaipur, Sambhal pur, Jhansi (1854).

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Englishmen’s easy success in trade and in establishing independent and fortified settlements at Madras and at Bombay, and the preoccupation of Aurangzeb with the anti-Maratha campaigns led the English to abandon the role of humble petitioners.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Raja Ram Mohan Roy convinced the British in 1829 to outlaw Sati.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The act was proposed by Lord Lytton, then Viceroy of India, and was unanimously passed by the Viceroy’s Council on 14 March 1878.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Mahatma Gandhi gave up the title of Kaiser-i-Hind and returned all the war medals which were awarded to him by the British for his war services (during the First World War) in support of the Khilafat demand when the Central Khilafat Committee organised a general all-India hartal on August 1, 1920.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS, also known as Clive of India, Commander-in-Chief of British India, was a British officer and privateer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Throughout the 19th century intermittent uprisings occurred in Malabar, especially in the Ernad and Valluvanad taluks.Twenty two such riots were reported from different parts of Malabar.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Britisher invested in agriculture to fulfil the demand of raw materials required for industries in Britain. So, British persuaded or forced cultivator in Bengal to grow Jute (it also known as golden fibre).

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Rowlatt Acts, (February 1919), legislation passed by the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : In 1614 Sir Thomas Roe was instructed by James I to visit the court of Jahangir, the Moghul emperor of Hindustan to arrange a commercial treaty and to secure for the East India Company sites for commercial agencies. Sir Thomas was successful, and though the Great Moghul Jahangir was contemptuous of the presents sent him by James I, he sent him a remarkably polite letter.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The headquarters of East India Company were located at Fort William in Bengal. Fort William is a fort built in Calcutta (presently Kolkata) on the eastern banks of the River Hooghly, the major distributary of the River Ganges, during the early years of the Bengal Presidency of British India. It was named after King William III of England. In front of the Fort is the Maidan, which used to be a part of the Fort and is the largest urban park in Calcutta.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Sadr-Di-wani-Adalat during Mughal and British rule in India was a High Court of Civil and Revenue matters.The Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat was the Supreme Court of Revenue in British India established at Calcutta by Warren Hastings in 1772. It was reformed in 1780 and again in 1793 by the British Parliament.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : British established a trading post in 1612 at Gujarat.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : On 2nd September 1946 the Interim Government of India was formed. This temporary government was formed from the Constituent Assembly of India (which was then newly elected). This government was entrusted the task of helping the transition of India and Pakistan from British rule to Independence as two separate nations.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : After the commencement of the government of India Act-1858, Viceroy of the state was to British Governor-General of India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Naoroji Dadabhai Is the author of books such as Poverty and Un-British Rule In India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : 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 Fort William.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The inauguration of the Ganapati and Shivaji Festivals was done by 1895.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Asiatic Society was founded by civil servant Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Sir William Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The introduction of the bill led to intense opposition in Britain and from British settlers in India that ultimately played on racial tension before it was enacted in 1884 in a severely compromised state. The bitter controversy deepened antagonism between the British and Indians and was a prelude to the formation of the Indian National Congress in the next two years. There was also a strong protest among Europeans.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lytton put on the statute book two obnoxious measures— the vernacular press Act and Indian Arms Act. Lytton’ s unpopular acts provoked a great storm of opposition in the country and led to the organisation of various political associations for carrying an anti-Government propaganda in the country.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lord Canning (1858–62): The Indian Councils Act of 1862 was passed, which proved to be a landmark in the constitutional history of India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : One of the most remarkable acts passed during the times of Lord Curzon was the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act of 1904. This act made any injury to the protected monuments an offence punishable under the law.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : After Sepoy Mutiny rule established in 1857, British govt. started ruling over India, Governor general became the Viceroy and Lord Canning became the last Governor General and first Viceroy.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Daman and Diu were once part of a combined union territory along with Goa (a Konkani-speaking region), before Goa became a state in 1987. The use of Portuguese, which was the territory’s official language during the colonial period, is in decline and relegated to home use.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Mountbatten had replaced Lord Wavell as the viceroy of India in 1947.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The First Opium War, fought over opium trade, financial reparations, and diplomatic status, began in 1839 and was concluded by the Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing) in 1842.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Pitt’s India Act 1784 or the East India Company Act 1784 was passed in the British Parliament to rectify the defects of the Regulating Act 1773. It resulted in dual control or joint government in India by Crown in Great Britain and the British East India Company, with crown having ultimate authority.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Wellesley’s aims were expansionism and imperialism. He wan­ted to expand the British dominions in India to such an extent that it should become the sovereign power in India. His expansionist mind would not remain content with British remaining one of the powers in India, as such he set himself to the task of converting India into an empire of Britain. Another aim, which was ancillary to his main objective, was removal of French influence from India and to make possibility of French territorial expansion of India impossible.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Dadabhai Naroji was the first Anglo Indian to elect the British Parliament. He also known as Grand Old Man of India. He introduced, drain of wealth theory.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : English East India Company became the legitimate masters of Bengal Suba after battle of Buxar which was held on 22 Oct, 1764 between East lndia company led by Hector Munro and Mir Qasim (Nawab of Bengal), Mughal emperor Shah Alam, Nawab of Avadh Shira-jud-daula.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Dyarchy, also spelled diarchy, system of double government introduced by the Government of India Act (1919) for the provinces of British India. Dyarchy was introduced as a constitutional reform by Edwin Samuel Montagu (secretary of state for India, 1917–22) and Lord Chelmsford (viceroy of India, 1916–21).

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Nana Saheb was the adopted son of Peshwa Baji Rao II. His annual pension was stopped because the British refused to recognize him as the legitimate heir to the throne as he was adopted.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announced on 20 February 1947 that: the British Government would grant full self-government to British India by 30 June 1948 at the latest, The future of the Princely States would be decided after the date of final transfer is decided.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Ripon was a true democrat. He took some steps towards liberalizing the administration in India. His aim was to give popular and political education to the Indians. He formulated the local self government and laid the foundations of representative institutions in India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The statements that are correct related to the Revolt of the Bhils are They defied British authority for 50 years from 1818. Their revolt was finally ended by the British through military operations as well as conciliatory measures.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Gandhi had been provoked into crusading for the lot of the Asians in South Africa by the British law called cl Asiatic Registration.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The civil rebellions against the British was initially started at Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Charles Hardinge was the Viceroy when the capital of India was shifted from Calcutta (now Kolkata) to Delhi in 1911. There is a well known medical college in Delhi named after the Viceroy.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Joseph-François Dupleix was a colonial administrator and governor-general of the French territories in India, who nearly realized his dream of establishing a French empire in India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Battle of Wandiwash was a decisive battle in India during the Seven Years’ War. The Count de Lally’s army, burdened by a lack of naval support and funds, attempted to regain the fort at Vandavasi, now in Tamil Nadu. This was the Third Carnatic War fought between the French and the British.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The statements that are correct related to the Charter Act of 1793 were Renewed the Charter of the Company for 20 more years. Regulated the finances of the Company. Prohibited the Commander-in-Chief from being a member of the Governor General’s Council.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Britishers established there first trading center in Surat. After that in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : During the reign of Dalhousie East India Company annexed Punjab in 1849. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company in 1849, and was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British control. In 1858, the Punjab, along with the rest of British India, came under the direct rule of the British crown.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Subsidiary Alliance System was “Non-Intervention Policy” used by Lord Wellesley who was the Governor-General (1798-1805) to establish British Empire in India. According to this system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of British army.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Lord Ripon is known to have granted the Indians first taste of freedom by introducing the Local Self Government in 1882. His scheme of local self government developed the Municipal institutions which had been growing up in the country ever since India was occupied by the British Crown.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Battle of Wandiwash, (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history of India, a confrontation between the French, under the comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. It was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle in southern India during the Seven Years War (1756–63).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Charter granted to the East India Company. Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a formal charter to the London merchants trading to the East Indies, hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade in what is now Indonesia.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : By the Act of 1773, Parliament granted a loan of Rs 400,000 to the East India Company.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Artisans and craftsmen were ruined by the large-scale influx of cheap British.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Bal Gangadhar Tilak was imprisoned in 1908 to Mandalay for six years. Tilak criticise the Britishers in his newspaper, under a article name ‘Bharat ki Durdasha’ and this became the reason for his imprisonment.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Madras was returned by the French to the British in 1748 by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Treaty of Salbai was signed on 17 May 1782, by representatives of the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company after long negotiations to settle the outcome of the First Anglo-Maratha War. David Anderson concluded the Treaty of Salbai on behalf of the East India Company.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The master stroke of Lord Wellesley to establish British paramountcy in India was Subsidiary Alliance.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The very conditions of British rule helped the growth of national sentiment. Roy was the first Indian leader to start an agitation for political reforms in India. There is a moral evil which, if anything, is even greater.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : In 1831 Bentinck signed a treaty with Ranjit Singh to protect the British territories from Russian menace.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : As a result of the partition of Bengal announced by Lord Curzon in 1905, Bengal was partitioned into two provinces of Bengal and Eastern Bengal & Assam.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Regulating Act, (1773), legislation passed by the British Parliament for the regulation of the British East India Company’s Indian territories, mainly in Bengal.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In India Lord Macaulay (Thomas Balington Macaulay) is fully credited with the official introduction of English education though the necessary order on the subject were given by Lord William Bentinck the governor general of India on 7th March 1835.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Ripon made remarkable contribution to the development of local government. In 1882, he abandoned the existing system of local government by the officially nominated people.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : During the time period of Indian University act,1904 Lord Curzon was the Viceroy of India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Simon Commission had visited India on April 3, 1926 Lord Irwin was appointed 30th Viceroy and Governor-General of India. In 1927, British government appointed a commission under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Lord Chelmsford was the Viceroy of India when Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place on April 13, 1919.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : In 1767 Maratha Peshwa Madhavrao defeated both Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan and entered Srirangapatna, the capital of Mysore.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The following on the chronology of appointment of Viceroys were Reading, Irwin, Wellingdon and Linlithgow.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : On account of severe British repression the Civil Disobedience movement was again suspended In July 1933 and people were asked to offer Satyagraha individually.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Lord Morley became secretary of state for India in Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s Cabinet of 1905.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Non-Cooperation Movement under Gandhi was in full swing during the Viceroyalty of Reading.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Charter act of 1813 ended the monopoly of the East India Company in India, however the company’s monopoly in trade with china and trade in tea was remained intact. The charter act of 1813, for the first time explicitly defined the constitutional position of the British territories in India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Queen Victoria’s famous proclamation, A Royal Durbar was held at Allahabad in November 1, 1858. A proclamation was issued by Queen Victoria. It was read at the Durbar by Lord Canning, who was the last Governor General and the first Viceroy of India.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Babur (14 February 1483 – 26 December 1530), born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, was the founder and first Emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Zahiruddin Muhammad was born on February 14, 1483 in the town of Andijan, in the Fergana Valley which is in modern Uzbekistan.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Mughal Empire was founded by Babur (reigned 1526–1530), a Central Asian ruler who was descended from the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (the founder of the Timurid Empire) on his father’s side and from Chagatai, the second son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother’s side.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Babur married several times. Notable among his sons are Humayun, Kamran Mirza and Hindal Mirza. Babur died in 1530 in Agra and was succeeded by Humayun.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Mughal leader Babur originally invaded northern India because he was unable to achieve his ambitious goals in central Asia.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The town has recorded essentialness as Mughal Emperor Akbar, was enthroned in a garden close to the Kalanaur by Bairam Khan.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Raja Birbal was the only Hindu to adopt Din-i-Ilahi, the religion founded by Akbar.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Ramayana was translated by Mulla Abdul Qadir Badayuni into Persian.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Khanzada Mirza Khan Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana (17 December 1556 – 1627) also known as baba Rahim was a poet who lived during the rule of Mughal emperor Akbar. He was one of the nine important ministers (dewan) in his court, also known as the Navaratnas.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : After Akbar’s victory over Rajputanas of Chittor and Ranthambore, he shifted his capital from Agra to a new city which named ‘Fatehpur Sikri’ (the city of victory).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Jean-Baptiste Colbert founded the French East India Company in 1664. The initial attempts of the company to found a successful colony on Madagascar got failed. In 1667, under Francis Caron, the company established first factory at Surat and second factory was established at Masulipattanam a year later.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Zagirdari system was the system of giving an official right to collect revenue from a particular area called ‘Zagir’.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : During the Mughal rule, the police duties in the districts were entrusted to the officials known as Faujdar.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : In the Mughal administration, military recruitment had been looked after by the Bakhshi.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : During Jahangir’s reign did William Hawkins visit the Mughal court to secure a right. to trade in Mughal ports.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Mughal Emperor Jahangir had a keen interest in music. He also composed few hindi songs. Jahangir, the Mughal Emperor, is credited with the composition of many Hindi songs.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh (3 November 1688 – 21 September 1743) was the Hindu Rajput ruler of the kingdom of Amber (later called Jaipur). He was born at Amber, the capital of the Kachwahas. He became ruler of Amber at the age of 11 after his father Maharaja Bishan Singh died on 31 December 1699.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Mughal architecture reached its zenith during the reign of Shah Jahan, who constructed the Taj Mahal, the Jama Masjid, the Red Fort, and the Shalimar Gardens in Lahore.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : So’aal o Jawaab bain-e-Laal Daas wa Dara Shikoh (also called Mukaalama-i Baba Laal Daas wa Dara Shikoh) Sirr-e-Akbar (The Great Secret, his translation of the Upanishads in Persian) Persian translations of the Yoga Vasishta and Bhagavad Gita.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Mughal painting remained confined to the Mughal court and did not reach the people.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Mukarrab Khan with his large army attacked Sambhji Maharaj with an army of 4000. The 400 Maratha soldiers attacked so ferociously, that Mukarab Khan was taken by surprise. Sambhaji Maharaj along with Kavi Kalash was captured and taken as prisoner to Aurangzeb who killed him with utmost brutality.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Babur found leisure to summon from Constantinople pupils of the famous Albanian architect, Sinan, who had designed many important buildings in the Ottoman Empire and set them to work on mosques and other architectural monuments commemorating his conquest of Hindustan.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Jizya was abolished by the third Mughal emperor Akbar, in 1564. It was finally abolished in 1579.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The First Anglo–Mysore War (1766–1769) was a conflict in India between the Sultanate of Mysore and the East India Company. The war was instigated in part by the machinations of Asaf Jah II, the Nizam of Hyderabad, who sought to divert the company’s resources from attempts to gain control of the Northern Circars.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Mughal Emperor Babur died in 1530. He was first buried at Aaram Bagh, Agra. Later his remains were moved to Bagh-e-Babur (Babur Gardevs),Kabul.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Under the Mughals artillery was administered as a department of the household.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The first Mughal emperor to crown Agra as capital of mughal empire, was Akbar in the year 1526. The capital of mughal empire was changed from Agra to Delhi by Shah Jahan in the year 1638.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Battle of Khanwa was fought near the village of Khanwa, in Bharatpur District of Rajasthan, on March 16, 1527. It was fought between the invading forces of the first Mughal Emperor Babur and the Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga of Mewar, after the Battle of Panipat.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 AD and founded the Mughal empire.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the First Battle of Panipat (AD 1526). This marked the end of the Delhi Sultanate and the beginning of the Mughal Empire. This was one of the earliest battles involving gunpowderfirearms and field artillery.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Battle of Khanwa was fought near the village of Khanwa, in Bharatpur District of Rajasthan, on March 16, 1527. It was fought between the invading forces of the first Mughal Emperor Babur and the Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga of Mewar, after the Battle of Panipat.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : In 1526, the First Battle of Panipat saw the introduction of massed artillery tactics to Indian warfare. Under the guidance of Ottoman gun master Ustad Ali Quli, Babur deployed cannons behind a screening row of carts.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Babar’s autobiography, called Tuzuk-i-Baburi or Baburnama, which is reckoned among “the most enthralling and romantic works in the literature of all times” is written in Turki.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Babur was born in Andijan, in the Fergana Valley, in modern Uzbekistan. He was the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza, governor of Fergana and great grandson of Timur the Great.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Babur died in 1530 in Agra and was succeeded by Humayun. He was first buried in Agra but, as per his wishes, his mortal remains were moved to Kabul reburied.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : When Chittor was captured by Akbar (1558), the Rana of Mewar was Rana Udai Singh.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Babar set out on his final invasion of India in November, 1525. His eldest son, Humayun, brought a contingent from Badakhshan, and Khwaja Kalan, trustiest of generals, led the troops of Ghazni.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The “Memoirs of Babur” or Baburnama are the work of the great-great-great-grandson of Timur (Tamerlane), Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530).

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad, better known by his regional name, Humayun, was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, who ruled over territory in what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India and Bangladesh from 1530–1540 and again from 1555–1556.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : On 26 June 1539, Sher Khan faced Humayun in the Battle of Chausa and defeated him. Assuming the title Farīd al-Dīn Shēr Shah, he defeated Humayun once again at Kannauj in May 1540 and forced him out of India. He also constructed the Purana Qila of New Delhi.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Humayun was born on 17 March 1508, in Kabul, Mughal Empire (present-day Afghanistan), to Babur, the founder of the Mughal dynasty and his wife Maham Begum.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : On the evening of 21 Jan 1556, Humayun was walking in the terrace of his library at Sher Mandal in Delhi. While descending the steps, he heard the announcement for the evening prayer. He stood still upon the occasion and sat down on the second step till the proclamation was ended. When he was going to rise, he supported himself on a staff, which unfortunately slipped upon the marble, and he fell headlong from the top to the bottom of the stair. He was taken up insensible and laid upon his bed. He died on 24 Jan, at the age of fifty-one, after a reign of twenty-five years, in Kabul and India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The History of Humayun: Humayun Nama was written by Gul-badan Begam, Humayun’ s sister. Gul-Badan Begum (1523 – 1603), was daughter of Zaheruddin Muhammad Babur of India. She wrote Humayun nama at the behest of her nephew and at the emperor of India Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : When Humayun was in exile Koh-i-noor Diamond was with Shah Tahmasp of Persia.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Battle of Chausa (25 June 1539) took place between Mughal Emperor Humayun and Sher Shah Suri (Sher Khan). In this battle Humayun got defeated.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Maham Anga was Akbar’s chief nurse prior to his enthronement at age thirteen as Mughal emperor in 1556.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : During his reign they were the most powerful at sea. Trade at Surat, the main port of Mughal India. Gujarat that emerged as the leading outlet at a given time.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Akbar was very tolerant in his religious views. In his childhood he was impressed by the liberal religious ideas of his teacher, Abdul Latif.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Tansen (c. 1500 – 1586), also referred to as Tan Sen or Ramtanu Pandey, was a prominent figure of North Indian (Hindustani) classical music. Born in a Hindu family, he learned and perfected his art in the northwest region of modern Madhya Pradesh.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Abu’l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (October 1542– 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar I, also as Akbar the Great (Akbar-i-azam), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Akbar did not come into contact with Buddhist.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Dīn-i Ilāhī (lit. “Religion of God”) was a syncretic religion propounded by the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582 CE, intending to merge some of the elements of the religions of his empire, and thereby reconcile the differences that divided his subjects.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Second Battle of Panipat was fought on November 5, 1556, between the forces of Hemu, the Hindu general and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri, and the army of the Mughal emperor, Akbar.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Appointment to the ranks of mansabdars was made by the emperor, usually on the recommendation of military leaders, provincial governors, or court officials.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The fort is called Red Fort or Lal QiIa because it is made of red sandstone. The history of forts indicates that it was built between the year 1639-1648 by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in old Delhi.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The tomb of Humayun was built by the orders of Humayun’s first wife and chief consort, Empress Bega Begum (also known as Haji Begum). The construction began in 1565, nine years after his death, and completed in 1572 AD at a cost of 1.5 million ruppees at the time.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Humayun was defeated in the battle of kannauj by Shershah Suri (1540). After this battle Sher Shah Suri forced him out of India.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Ram Siya coin issued by Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1604-05. It has the image of Ram and Sita on one side with the word Ram and Siya written above in Devnagri script. Ram is shown holding a bow and arrow while Sita has lotus in both her hands.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Second Battle of Panipat was fought on November 5, 1556, between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the king at Delhi and forces of Emperor Akbar.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Akbar appointed Abdullah Khan as the governor of Malwa with his headquarters at Mandu. Akbar suppressed the rebellion of Abdullah Khan, the Governor of Malwa.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Akbar considered him as a Navaratnas (nine jewels), and gave him the title Mian, an honorific, meaning learned man. Tansen was a composer, musician and vocalist, to whom a large number of compositions have been attributed in northern regions of the Indian subcontinent.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Mansabdar implies the generic term for the military-kind grading of all royal functionaries of the Mughal Empire. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system followed in Mongolia.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The designation ‘amil’ during Akbar’s reign denoted a Revenue official.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Akbar married a bride from Udaipur.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The “Razmnama”(war Tab) is the persian translation of the Mahabharta. Preface of this book was written by the Akbar’s, court poet Abul Fazal.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : One of Akbar’s most unusual ideas regarding religion was Din-i-Ilahi (“Godism” in English), which was an eclectic mix of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Akbar’a son and successor Salim, on becoming the emperor, assumed the name of Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : In 1562 CE, Akbar defeated Baz Bahadur and brought the region of Malwa under Mughal dominion. Simultaneously, Asaf Khan, a Mughal general, conquered Rewa, which lay north of Rani’s kingdom. Thus, Garha-Mandla now touched the boundaries of both Rewa and Malwa, which were under the Mughals. An attack from either of them was imminent.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Akbar of Kashmir who reconstructed and rehabilitated all the temples and asked Jonaraja to continue further Kalhana’s Rajatarangini was Zain-ul-Abidin.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Shahzada Mirza Muhammad Hakim, sometimes known simply as Mirza Hakim, short: Mirza, was the second son of Mughal emperor Humayun. He ruled Kabul in Afghanistan, and often conflicted with his elder brother emperor Akbar. Mirza Hakim later on mended ways with Emperor Akbar. He is the son of Mah Chuchak Begum. He is known for writing Tajdar-e-Haram.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Gwalior Fort was built by Raja Man Sing Tomar in 8th century. It consists of one defensive structure and two main palaces ( Gujrat Mahal and Man Mandir ).

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Akbar invited Bhattarak Harvijay Suri the main exponent of Jain Swetambara sect.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Ain-i-Akbari (The constitution of Akbar) is the third volume of ‘Akbarnama’ (the book of Akbar) was written by Abul Fazal. He was the court poet of Mughal Emperor Akbar.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Sisodiya dynasty that ruled mewar did not surrender to emperor Akbar untill and unless Jahangir defeated Rana Pratap’s Son who was a weak ruler.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Akbarnama which translates to Book of Akbar, is the official chronicle of the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor (r. 1556–1605), commissioned by Akbar himself by his court historian and biographer, Abu’l-Fazl ibn Mubarak who was one of the nine jewels in Akbar’s court. He had also written Ain-i-Akbari.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Ibadat Khana (House of Worship) was a meeting house built in 1575 CE by the Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 1556–1605) at Fatehpur Sikri to gather spiritual leaders of different religious grounds so as to conduct a discussion on the teachings of the respective religious leaders.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Khwaza Abdus Samad was the master of imperial mint at Delhi during the reign of Akbar.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The architectural raw material generally used in Akbar’s period was Redstone.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Raja Man Singh was the most trusted General of the Mughal emperor Akbar, he assisted him in many battles including the famous Battle of Haldighati (1576).

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Raja Todarmal was the finance minister (Mushrif-i-Diwan) of Mughal Emperor Akbar, he was one of the navratnas of Akbar’s court. He introduced land measurement system, Zabti/Dhasala system (revenue collection) and karori system.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Rejection of seclusion of women social reforms did not form part of din-i- ilahi.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Education and basic rights for Indian women is not related to the Akbar’s reign.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : To bring Hindu-Muslim unity, Akbar prohibited cow-killing. He banned killing of animals. He stopped eating meat for many months.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : This feudal system of land ownership is referred to as the jagirdar system. The system was introduced by the Sultans of Delhi from the 13th century onwards, was later adopted by the Mughal Empire, and continued under the British East India Company.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Raja Birbal was the only Hindu to adopt Din-i-Ilahi, the religion founded by Akbar.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : After Akbar’s Victory over Rajputana of Chittor and Ranthambor, he shifted his capital from Agra to a new city which he named ‘Fatehpur Sikri’ (the city of victory).

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Raja Todar Mal was the Finance Minister of the Mughal empire during Akbar’s reign. Todarmal was the chief finance minister (Diwan-e-kul) of Mughal Emperor Akbar. He introduced many land revenue reforms like land measurement reforms, Dhasala system and Karoni system.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : At Cambay, Akbar saw the sea for the first time and rode on it in a boat.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The medieval Hindu ruler who was a contemporary of Akbar, and took the title of Vikramaditya was Hemachandra (Hemu). Hemu claimed royal status after defeating Akbar’s Mughal forces on 7 October 1556 in the Battle of Delhi and assumed the ancient title of Vikramaditya that had been adopted by many Hindu kings in the past. A month later, Hemu was wounded by a chance arrow and captured during the Second Battle of Panipat.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Buland Darwaza, or the “Gate of victory”, was built in 1572 A.D. by Mughal emperor Akbar to commemorate his victory over Gujarat. It is the main entrance to the palace at Fatehpur Sikri, which is 43 km from Agra, India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Akbar (Abu’l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar, 15 October 1542 – 1605) was the 3rd Mughal Emperor. He was born in Umerkot,(now Pakistan). He was the son of 2nd Mughal Emperor Humayun. Akbar became the king in 1556 at the age of 13 when his father died.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Buland Darwaza (The Gate of Magnificience) was built by Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1601 at Fatehpur Sikri (U.P.). It was built by Akbar to commemorate his victory over Khandesh in Gujarat.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Bairam Khan also Bayram Khan ( c. 18 January 1501 – c. 31 January 1561) was an important military commander, later commander-in-chief of the Mughal army, a powerful statesman and regent at the court of the Mughal Emperors, Humayun and Akbar.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Vincent Arthur Smith was a British Indologist and art historian, who stated that Akbar’s Din-i-Ilahi was a monument of his folly, not of wisdom”.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Mughal Emperor Akbar aseended the throne at the age of thirteen in the year 1556 A.D.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Two women who, while conducting the affairs of their states faced Akbar’s wars of conquest were Rani Durgawati and Chand Bibi (or Sultana), respectively of Gondwana and Ahmadnagar.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Sulh-i kul is an Arabic term literally meaning “peace with all,” “universal peace,” or “absolute peace,” drawn from a Sufi mystic principle. As applied by the third Mughal Emperor of India, Akbar (who reigned 1556-1605), it described a peaceful and harmonious relationship among different religions.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Diwan-i-Khas, or Hall of Private Audiences, in the Red Fort of Delhi built in 1571 was the place where the Mughal emperor Akbar received courtiers and state guests. It was also known as the Shah Mahal.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Hemu was captured and brought before Akbar by Shah Qulihan Mehran.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Baz Bahadur famous musician of Akbar’s time, was made Manashba of 2000 by Akbar, the ruler of Malva. Abul Fazl wrote about him – “he was the best person of his time in music and Hindi songs.”

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The head of the military was called the mir bakshi, appointed from among the leading nobles of the court. The mir bakshi was in charge of intelligence gathering, and also made recommendations to the emperor for military appointments and promotions.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Akbar occupied Burhanpur and besieged Asirgarh Fort in 1599, and took it on 17 January 1601, when Miran Bahadur Shah refused to submit Khandesh.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Abdul Fazal was one of the navratnas at Akbar’s court. He wrote ‘Akbamama’ which is the official history of Akbar’s reign.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Ibadat Khana (House of Worship) was a meeting house built in 1575 CE by the Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 1556–1605) at Fatehpur Sikri to gather spiritual leaders of different religious grounds so as to conduct a discussion on the teachings of the respective religious leaders.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Akbar considered Miyan Tansen as a Navaratnas (nine jewels), and gave him the title Mian, an honorific, meaning learned man. Tansen was a composer, musician and vocalist, to whom a large number of compositions have been attributed in northern regions of the Indian subcontinent.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Arab merchant, Suleiman, came to India in 9th century in the kingdom was Mihira Bhoja of Prathihara dynasty.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : In 1739, Persian invader Nadir Shah plundered and looted Delhi,and the Peacock throne was taken away along with other spoils. It was believed that after Nadir Shah’s death the Peacock throne was broken down and damaged.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Sunder Das was a poet.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Zeb-un-nisa was a Mughal princess, the eldest child of Emperor Aurangzeb and his chief consort Dilras Banu Begum. Zeb-un-nisa chose to live voluntarily with Shah Jahan and later was awarded great honour by Aurangzeb.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor. He was the second son of and became the successor to his father, Akbar II, upon his death on 28 September 1837.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : On 26 June 1539, Sher Khan faced Humayun in the Battle of Chausa and defeated him. The Mughal Army was defeated in the battle.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The battle of chausa (1539) was fought between Mughal Emperor Humanyun and Sher Shah Suri. The Mughal Army was defeated in the battle.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : At the Battle of Karnal on 24 February 1739, Nader led his army to victory over the Mughals. Muhammad Shah surrendered and both entered Delhi together. The keys to the capital of Delhi were surrendered to Nader. He entered the city on 20 March 1739 and occupied Shah Jehan’s imperial suite in the Red Fort.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The Battle of Kanauj was fought between Sher Shah and Humayun. Humayun was defeated. Humayun, became a fugitive and Sher Khan became the master of Agra and Delhi. This battle was fought in 1540.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Bahadur Shah I. Bahadur Shah (14 October 1643 – 27 February 1712), also known as Muhammad Muazzam and Shah Alam was the seventh Mughal emperor of India, ruled from 1707 until his death in 1712.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Jahangir gave the title of Shah Jahan to prince Khurram at that very time. But it was, in fact, no remarkable success of the Mughals. Ahmadnagar was not prepared to accept the sovereignty of the Mughals and started fighting against them again. However, peace was again signed between the two in 1621 A.D. by which Ahmadnagar surrendered a part of its territory to the Mughals and also paid rupees eighteen lakhs in cash. Bijapur and Golkunda which had helped Ahmadnagar also paid rupees twelve lakhs and rupees twenty lakhs respectively to the Mughals. Thus, during the reign of Jahangir, Ahmadnagar was weakened and the states of Bijapur and Golkunda were pressurised.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Battle of Chausa was a notable military engagement between the Mughal emperor, Humayun, and the Afghan, Sher Shah Suri. It was fought on 26 June 1539 at Chausa, 10 miles southwest of Buxar in modern-day Bihar, India. Sher Shah was victorious and crowned himself Farīd al-Dīn Shēr Shah.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : On 26 June 1539, Sher Khan faced Humayun in the Battle of Chausa and defeated him. Assuming the title Farīd al-Dīn Shēr Shah, he defeated Humayun once again at Kannauj in May 1540 and forced him out of India.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Shahjahan ousted the Portuguese from Hugli. He created the office of Amin for assessment of revenue. Ali Mardan Khan surrendered Kandhar to Mughals.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Dara Shukoh was a follower of the Persian “perennialist” mystic Sarmad Kashani, as well as Lahore’s famous Qadiri Sufi saint Hazrat Mian Mir, whom he was introduced to by Mullah Shah Badakhshi (Mian Mir’s spiritual disciple and successor).

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Bahadur Shah-I was the seventh Mughal Emperor. He was the third son of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and Nawab Bai. He was born on Oct 14,1643.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Moti Masjid in Agra was built by Shah Jahan. During the rule of Shah Jahan the Mughal emperor, numerous architectural wonders were built, the most famous of them being the Taj Mahal. Moti Masjid earned the epithet Pearl Mosque for it shone like a pearl.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Shah Jahan recovered from his illness, but Aurangzeb put his father under house arrest in Agra Fort from July 1658 until his death in January 1666.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Bahadur Shah II’s involvement in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British exiled him to Rangoon in British-controlled Burma (now in Myanmar), after convicting him on conspiracy charges.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Kafi Khan called Muazzam as Shahi-i- Bekhabar.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Siege of Golconda occurred in January 1687, when Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb led his forces to besiege the Qutb Shahi dynasty at Golconda Fort (also known as the Diamond Capital of its time) and was home to the Kollur Mine. The ruler of Golconda was the well entrenched Abul Hasan Qutb Shah.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : When Shah Jahan fell ill in September 1657, Aurangzeb challenged Dara, defeated him, imprisoned their father, and assumed imperial authority on July 21, 1658. After liquidating his three brothers, he crowned himself emperor of India, assuming the title Alamgir (Conqueror of the World) at Delhi on June 5, 1659.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The last of the great Mughals was Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707), who seized the throne by killing all his brothers and imprisoning his own father. Aurangzeb was the third son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan; his mother was Mumtaz Mahal, who is buried in the Taj Mahal.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Aurangzeb died in the year 3 March 1707 (aged 88) Ahmednagar, India.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Aurangzeb was born on 3 November 1618, in Dahod, Gujarat. He was the third son and sixth child of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Aurangzeb, in his attempt to annex Marwar to the Mughal empire, was involved in a 30-year war. During these long years the most valiant struggle from the side of Marwar was fought by Durgadas Rathore.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Musamman Burj also known as the Saman Burj or the Shah-burj, is an octagonal tower standing close to the Shah Jahan’s private hall Diwan-e-Khas in Agra Fort. The Moti Masjid (translation: Pearl Mosque) in Agra was built by Shah Jahan.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : In 1660 Aurangzeb appointed Shayista Khan, his maternal uncle and a veteran general, viceroy of the Deccan, with instructions to suppress the activities of Shivaji.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Kanunî Sultan Süleyman in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Abu’l Faaiz Qutb-ud-Din Muhammad Azam (28 June 1653 – 8 June 1707), commonly known as Azam Shah (“King Azam”), was a titular Mughal emperor, who reigned from 14 March 1707 to 8 June 1707. He was the eldest son of the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (also known as Alamgir) and his chief consort Dilras Banu Begum.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Shaista Khan succeeded Mir Jumla as the governor of Bengal after his death. He gave personal attention to the problem of south Bengal, where the Magh (Arakanese) pirates, in conjunction with Portuguese pirates, had been terrorizing the area up to Dacca (capital of Bengal) from their headquarters at Chittagong.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Rajaram Raje Bhosale (24 February 1670 – 3 March 1700 Sinhagad) was the younger son of Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and half-brother of Sambhaji Maharaj. He took over the Maratha Empire as its third Chhatrapati after his brother’s death at the hands of the Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb in 1689.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : On behalf of Aurangzeb Cooch Behar was seized by Mir Jumla.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Shah Jahan recovered from his illness, but Aurangzeb put his father under house arrest in Agra Fort from July 1658 until his death in January 1666.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Shayista Khan did not revolt against Aurangzeb.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Roshanara’s rise to power began when she successfully foiled a plot by her father and Dara Shikoh to kill Aurangzeb. According to history, Shah Jahan sent a letter of invitation to Aurangzeb to visit Delhi, in order to peacefully resolve the family crisis. In truth, however, Shah Jahan planned to capture, imprison and kill Aurangazeb in prison as he viewed his third son as a serious threat to the throne. When Roshanara got wind of her father’s plots, she sent a messenger to Aurangzeb, outlining their father’s true intentions, and warning Aurangazeb to stay away from Delhi. Aurangzeb was extremely grateful to Roshanara for her timely warning. When the war of succession was resolved in favour of Aurangzeb, she quickly became a powerful figure at court.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : During his reign, the Mughal Empire extended from the Himalayas to Karnataka and Gujarat to Bengal. However he faced lot of rebels from the Jat, Maratha as well as Sikh community. Marathas were not included in Aurangzeb’s government.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Formerly Kalima used to be embossed on the coins. This practice was abandoned by Aurangzeb as it was un-Islamic.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Battle of Samugarh, Jang-e-Samugarh, (May 29, 1658), was a decisive battle in the struggle for the throne during the Mughal war of succession (1658–1659) between the sons of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan after the emperor’s serious illness in September 1657.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Bibi Ka Maqbara (English:”Tomb of the Lady”) is a tomb located in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s son Azam Shah in the memory of his mother (posthumously known as Rabia-ud-Daurani).

Answer: Option C
Explanation : During the last 25 years of his reign, Aurangzeb was mainly involved in long-drawn wars against Marathas.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Aurangzeb forbaded the cultivation of Bhang. He forbaded singing at court and a proficient player of Veena.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Mir Jumla (1591-1663) a nobleman in the service of the State of Golkonda in the Deccan plateau of Central India was the first owner of what was later known as the Kohinoor then the largest diamond in the world. Mir Jumla was a Persian born near Isfahan in Iran. He was the son of an oil merchant. Koh-i-noor diamond was presented to Aurangzeb by him.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb died at the age of 88 in Ahmednagar in 1707. He died due to terminal illness.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Aurangzeb came to power after winning the war of succession and by defeating his three brothers Askari.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Mukarrab Khan with his large army attacked Sambhji Maharaj with an army of 4000. The 400 Maratha soldiers attacked so ferociously, that Mukarab Khan was taken by surprise. Sambhaji Maharaj along with Kavi Kalash was captured and taken as prisoner to Aurangzeb who killed him with utmost brutality.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Jizya was abolished by the third Mughal emperor Akbar, in 1564. It was finally abolished in 1579.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The First Anglo–Mysore War (1766–1769) was a conflict in India between the Sultanate of Mysore and the East India Company. The war was instigated in part by the machinations of Asaf Jah II, the Nizam of Hyderabad, who sought to divert the company’s resources from attempts to gain control of the Northern Circars.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Under the Mughals artillery was administered as a department of the household.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The first Mughal emperor to crown Agra as capital of mughal empire, was Akbar in the year 1526. The capital of mughal empire was changed from Agra to Delhi by Shah Jahan in the year 1638.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : By order of Aurangzeb he had also forcibly removed, in 1666, the stone railing presented to the Keshav Rai temple by Dara Shikoh.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad also known as Aurangzeb or by his title Alamgir was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire. He ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent. His reign lasted for 49 years from 1658 until his death in 1707.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Temples that were destroyed by Aurangzeb are Somnath temple, Vishwanath temple and Keshavrai temple.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Mughal emperor Aurangzeb replaced many Hindu temples with mosques. The original Kashi Vishwanath Temple was demolished by Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor who constructed the Gyanvapi Mosque atop the original Hindu temple. Kashi Vishwanath was among the most renowned Hindu temples of India. Even today the pillars and the structure of the original temple can be clearly seen.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Guru was summoned to Delhi by Aurangzeb on a pretext, but when he arrived, he was offered, “to abandon his faith, and convert to Islam”. Guru Tegh Bahadur refused, and he and his associates were arrested. He was executed on 11 November 1675 in public in Chandni Chowk, Delhi.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Aurangzeb ruled 1658-1707 and expanded the empire to its greatest extent, shown by the heavy red line on the map.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : The theory of Din-i-Ilahi was introduced by Mughal Emperor Akbar. It is based on Monotheism(believe in one God).(Chief priest : Abul Fazal).The first initiated disciples of Din-i-ilahi during emperor Akbar the Great’s time included Birbal, Prince Salim and Abul-Fazl ibn Mubarak.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Hazratbal Shrine (Urdu, Kashmiri: literally “Majestic Place”), is a Muslim shrine in Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India. It contains a relic, the Moi-e-Muqqadas, believed by many Muslims of Kashmir to be a hair of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Commander-in-Chief, Mughal emperor. The Army of the Mughal Empire was the force by which the Mughal emperors established their empire in the 15th century and expanded it to its greatest extent at the beginning of the 18th century.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Persian ruler who besieged Qandhar in Jahangir’s reign was Shah Abbas.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : By 1675 A.D. Mughal authority was reestablished in the north-western frontier. The Pathan tribes were finally subdued by the policy of divide and rule.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Prince Dara Shukoh was the Mughal Prince who was well-versed in Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Emperor Nader Shah, the Shah of Persia (1736–47) and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Persia, invaded the Mughal Empire, eventually attacking Delhi in March 1739. His army had easily defeated the Mughals at the battle at Karnal and would eventually capture the Mughal capital in the aftermath of the battle.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The doctrine of subsidiary alliance was introduced by Lord Wellesley, British Governor-General in India from 1798 to 1805. Early in his governorship Wellesley adopted a policy of non-intervention in the princely states, but he later adopted the policy of forming subsidiary alliances.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Vasco da Gama (1469 or 1469-December 24, 1524) was a Portuguese sailor. He was the first European who went to India through the Cape of Good Hope, the southern end of Africa in Cape Town. He went to India three times by ship. He was born in Sines, Portugal.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Birbal is a famous historical character and he was a court jester in the court of Mughal Emperor Jalaluddin Mohammed Akbar. He was one among the nine jewels or ‘Nav Ratnas’ in the court of Akbar. He was in the inner council of advisors of Akbar’s administration.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Muhammad Shah was a great patron of the arts, including musical, cultural and administrative developments. His pen-name was Sada Rangila (“ever joyous”) and he is often referred to as “Muhammad Shah Rangila”, also sometimes as “Bahadur Shah Rangila” after his grand father Bahadur Shah I.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22 October 1764 between the forces under the command of the British East India Company, led by Hector Munro, and the combined armies of Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal till 1763; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : France was the last of the major European maritime powers of the 17th century to enter the East India trade.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Dīn-i Ilāhī (lit. “Religion of God”) was a syncretic religion propounded by the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582 CE, intending to merge some of the elements of the religions of his empire, and thereby reconcile the differences that divided his subjects.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Mirza Nur-ud-din Beig Muhammad Khan Salim, known by his imperial name Jahangir (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), was the fourth Mughal Emperor who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Jahangir claimed that he could distinguish the work of different artists in a single picture. Painting was at its climax during his reign.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The names of artisans who build it are not engraved on it.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Ibadat Khana (House of Worship) was a meeting house built in 1575 CE by the Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 1556–1605) at Fatehpur Sikri to gather spiritual leaders of different religious grounds so as to conduct a discussion on the teachings of the respective religious leaders.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Mahmud of Ghazni first invaded modern Afghanistan and Pakistan in 1000 AD. He defeated Hindu shahi kingdom ruler Jaya Pala, who killed himself later, and his son Ananda Pala became his successor. 1006 : Ghazni invaded Multan.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Bairam Khan was the most prominet military commander-in-chief of the Mughal Army. He was the Guardian, mentor and the teacher of emperor Arkbar.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Under the Mughals the main markets was of cotton goods, India’s chief export product exported to Africa.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The discovery of the sea route to India is the description sometimes used in Europe and among the Portuguese for the first recorded trip made directly from Europe to India via the Atlantic Ocean. It was undertaken under the command of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama during the reign of King Manuel I in 1497–1499.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : An extensive demand for slaves was created within India, the demand coming from Mughals. The considerable imports of Abyssinian slaves were in great demand.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The Marathas especially the great maratha rulers Chattrapati Shivaji, Sambhaji, Tarabai and Peshwa Bajirao-I are credited to a large extent for ending the Mughal rule in India.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Gulbadan Begum (1523-1603) was a Perso-Turkic Princess, the daughter of Emperor Babur. She is most known as the author of Humayun Nama, the account of the life of her brother, Humayun.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Most of king’s powers in urban areas were exercised by the kotwal, a secular functionary of the police, responsible under the Mughals for the peace of cities and towns.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Chand Bibi (1550–1599 CE), was an Indian Muslim regent and warrior. She acted as the Regent of Bijapur (1580–90) and Regent of Ahmednagar (in current day Maharashtra) (1596–99). Chand Bibi is best known for defending Ahmednagar against the Mughal forces of Emperor Akbar in 1595.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Mughal emperor Jahangir is credited with having composed secular Hindi songs.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Grand Trunk Road, built by Sher Shah Suri, a ruler of the Indian sub continent in the 16th century AD, starts in Kabul, Afghanistan. The road continues to Pakistan near Peshawar through the famous Khyber Pass.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : In 1612, James I instructed Sir Thomas Roe to visit the Mughal Emperor Nur-ud-din Salim Jahangir (r. 1605–1627) to arrange for a commercial treaty that would give the company exclusive rights to reside and establish factories in Surat and other areas.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Guru Arjan was arrested under the orders of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir and asked to convert to Islam. He refused, was tortured and executed in 1606 CE. Historical records and the Sikh tradition are unclear whether Guru Arjan was executed by drowning or died during torture.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Farrukhsiyar gave permission for collecting Chauth and Sardesh Mukhi on Maratha land to Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Two major crops introduced in India during the Mughal period were Tobacco and Maize.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Battle of Haldighati was a battle fought on 18 June 1576 between cavalry and archers supporting the Rana of Mewar, Maharana Pratap; and the Mughal emperor Akbar’s forces, led by Man Singh I of Amber.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The Second Anglo–Mysore War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company from 1780 to 1784.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : His reign saw beginning of a new intercourse between Europe of India. He attempted to prohibit traffic in eunuchs. He ordered the abolition of inhuman corporal punishments.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Jahangir had set up his court at Allahabad, assumed royal titles and struck coins in his name. He banned slaughter of animals on two days in every week viz – Sunday & Thursday.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The full name of Jahangir was Nuruddin Md. Jahangir. Jahangir had ended a long drawn out struggle with Mewar. Mahabat Khan revolted against Jahangir and captured Jahangir and his wife Nurjahan at Lahore.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : Ustad Ahmad Lahori, also spelled as ‘Ahmad Lahori’ was an Iranian architect. He is said to have been chief architect of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, built between 1632 and 1648 during the ruling period of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Mansabdari system was the administrative system introduced by Akbar in Mughal Empire during 1571. The word ‘Mansab’ is of Arabic origin meaning rank or position. Hence, Mansabdari was a system of ranking the government officials and determined their civil & military duties, along with their renumerations.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Birbal was one of the nine Jews in the court of Akbar, he was not the finance minister. Todarmal was the finance minister of Akbar.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Akbar remained illiterate and uneducated all his life. He had to occupy the throne at the early age of 13 years after the untimely death of his father Humayun. The responsibilities of the Great Mughal Empire never allowed him the time to educate himself.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : War of succession among sons of Aurangzeb. 9Attacks of Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali. Revolts of various communities like Jats, Sikhs, Rajputs etc. All of the above mentioned factors contributed to the downfall of the Mughal Empire.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : The well-known painting of the arrival of Tansen, the legendary singer at the court of Akbar, shows the fusion of this Persian and Hindu styles of art.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Battle of Haldighati was a battle fought on 18 June 1576 between cavalry and archers supporting the Rana of Mewar, Maharana Pratap; and the Mughal emperor Akbar’s forces, led by Man Singh I of Amber. After a fierce battle lasting more than three hours, Pratap found himself wounded and the day lost.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : Babur, the first Mughal emperor, was raised on a Central Asian diet that placed tremendous emphasis on the many fruits that passed through the region. In the markets of Samarkand one could purchase sweet apples, lush melons, and a bounty of other fruits from the region’s orchards.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Mughal Emperor Humayun died after a sudden fall from the stairs of his library in his fort at Delhi in 1556 AD.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Sir Thomas Roe from company reached the court of the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir, as the emissary of King James I in 1615, and gained for the British the right to establish a factory at Surat.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Gopala of the Pala dynasty was the first to plunge into the tripartite struggle.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : On the one hand we hear of several famines which caused untold sufferings and on the other hand we hear the Golden Age of Shah Jahan.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : Baiju Bawra (Baijnath Mishra) he was the drupadh singer of Medieval period. Miyan Tansen was the Mystical court singer of Mughal emperor Akbar.

Answer: Option B
Explanation : During the Mughal rule, the status of Diwan in the province was equal to the status of a modern day finance minister. His main responsibilities were collection of taxes on behalf of the emperor.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Dantidurga (735–756 CE), also known as Dantivarman or Dantidurga II was the founder of the Rashtrakuta Empire of Manyakheta.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The Battle of Delhi also known as the battle of Tughlaqabad was fought between Hemu (the General of Adil Shah Suri) and the Mughal forces led by Tardi Beg Khan in the year 1556. Hemu won the battle and over took Delhi.

Answer: Option D
Explanation : Aurangzeb said the given statement – “I came alone and I am going alone. I have not done well to the country and the people, and of the future there is no hope”.

Answer: Option C
Explanation : The king of Calicut, Zamorin welcomed Vasco-da-gama when he landed at calicut in 1498.

Answer: Option A
Explanation : The prominent Turkic ruler Mahmud of Ghazni raided Gujarat, plundering the Somnath temple and breaking its jyotirlinga despite pleas by Brahmins not to break it. He took away a booty of 20 million dinars.