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(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Lord Wellesley
(c) Lord Minto
(d) Lord William Bentinck
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (a)
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Question : 1
Who among the following started the newspaper Shome Prakash?
a) Akshay Kumar Datta
b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
c) Dayanand Saraswati
d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer »Answer: (c)
The tomb of Lord Cornwallis is located at Ghazipur, a small town in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh approximately seventy kilometers east of Varanasi. It is well connected by road and railways with different parts of the country.
Lord Cornwallis is known as a great administrator and a successful commander-in-chief in the history of India during the British period.
Question : 2
“Tuhafat-ul-Muwahidin” a tract written by Ram Mohan Roy is
a) First tract against widow remarriage
b) First tract against Kulinism
c) First tract against idolatry
d) First tract against system of Sati
Answer »Answer: (c)
‘Tuhafat-ul-Muwahidin’, a tract written by Ram Mohan Roy, is the first tract against idolatry. He believed that prayers, meditation, and reading of the Upanishads were to be forms of worship and no graven image.
Statue or sculpture, carving, painting, picture, portrait, etc. were to be allowed in the society building thus proclaiming opposition to idolatry and meaningless rituals.
Question : 3
Who founded the independent state of Awadh?
a) Saadat Khan
b) Aasfuddaula
c) Shujauddaula
d) Safdarjung
Answer »Answer: (a)
Saadat Khan founded the independent state of Awadh. Saadat Khan was popularly known as Burhan-ul-Mulk. He had joined in a conspiracy against the Sayyid brothers, later, driven out of the court; he was promoted to found a new independent state.
Question : 4
The permanent settlement of Lord Cornwallis gave the ownership of land to
a) Nobles
b) Peasants
c) Zamindars
d) State
Answer »Answer: (c)
The permanent settlement of Lord Cornwallis gave the ownership of land to Zamindars.
The Zamindars were made the owners of the whole land in their Zamindaris as long as they paid their dues to the state and they worked as agents of government in collecting the land revenue.
Question : 5
First decisive military success of English East India Company in india is marked by
a) Battle of Chilianwala
b) Battle of Plassey
c) Battle of Buxar
d) Battle of Wandiwash
Answer »Answer: (c)
The first decisive military success of the English East India Company in India is marked by the battle of Buxar. The victory at the Buxar was solely due to superior military power.
The defeat of the confederacy was inherent in the defects of the Indian army and state organization.
Question : 6
Consider the following statements in regard to the event during the rule of Lord Cornwallis as the Governor-General:
- He brought in the separation of revenue administration and civil jurisdiction through the Cornwallis code.
- He introduced civil services in India.
- Subsidiary alliance system was started under his rule.
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer »Answer: (a)
- Subsidiary Alliance system was introduced by Lord Wellesley.
- He introduced civil services in India.
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