initial modern india mcq set 3 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Lord Auckland was the Governor General when the Eden Gardens of Calcutta was built in 1840. The Gardens came into being when the Governor General Lord Auckland desired to create a circus and a garden. A pleasure ground with an oblong tank in centre was laid out on this site. The site was initially named ‘Auckland Circus Gardens’.

Answer: (a)

Lord Cornwallis was the father of Civil Services. The term ‘civil service’ was used for the first time by theEastIndiaCompany to distinguish its civilian employee from their military counterparts. Lord Cornwallis started the Civil Service in Indian to effectively administer British territories in India.

Answer: (b)

Brahmo Samaj of Raja Ram Mohan Roy was against child marriage. Inspite of this, Kehsav Chandra Sen his followers himself married his daughter in childhood and paved the way for disintegration of this institution.

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: (b)

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

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.