initial modern india mcq set 3 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

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.

Answer: (b)

Cornwallis was the first Governor General who established a regular force on the British pattern in India.

Answer: (b)

Lord Dalhousie had drafted the Hindu Widows Remarriage Act.

It was mainly due to the efforts of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820 – 91), the principal of Sanskrit College, Calcutta that the Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, 1856, which legalized marriage of widows and declared issues from such marriages as legitimate, was passed by the government.

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.

Answer: (a)

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.