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(a) Lord Clive
(b) Watson
(c) Hector Munro
(d) Warren Hastings
The correct answers to the above question in:
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.
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Question : 1
Brahmo Samaj of Raja Ram Mohan Roy was against child marriage. Inspite of this, one of his followers himself married his daughter in childhood and paved the way for disintegration of this institution. Who was that follower?
a) Dwarka Nath Tagore
b) Keshav Chandra Sen
c) Devendra Nath Tagore
d) Ramchandra Vidyavageesh
Answer »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.
Question : 2
By which treaty, did the English East India Company gain the Diwani rights of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa?
a) Treaty of Hariharpur
b) Treaty of Hoogly
c) Treaty of Murshidabad
d) Treaty of Allahabad
Answer »Answer: (d)
Question : 3
The last King of the Sikh Kingdom was
a) Sher Singh
b) Navnihal Singh
c) Ranjeet Singh
d) Daleep Singh
Answer »Answer: (b)
Robert Clive has been called a ‘Heaven-born General.’ Clive’s brilliant leadership at Arcot gave him an immense reputation in Europe. When he went home in 1753, William Pitt the Elder called him a “heaven-born general.”
After running unsuccessfully for Parliament, Clive returned to India in 1755 as governor of Fort St. David and as lieutenant colonel in the royal army.
Question : 4
Eden Gardens of Calcutta was built in 1840. It was named ‘Eden’ after the name of a sister of a Governor General of India. Who was the Governor General?
a) Lord Ellenbourough
b) Charles Metacalfe
c) Lord William Bentinck
d) Lord Auckland
Answer »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’.
Question : 5
Assertion (A):
The Doctrine of Lapse was introduced under Lord Dalhousie.
Reason (R):
Many native states lost their suzerainty under Doctrine of Lapse and the deposed leaders led the rebels in their region
a) Both A and B are true and R is the correct explanation.
b) Both A and B are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
c) A is true but R is false.
d) A is false but R is true.
Answer »Answer: (b)
The Doctrine of Lapse was an annexation policy purportedly devised by Lord Dalhousie. According to Hindu law, an individual or a ruler without natural heirs could adopt a person who would then have all the personal and political rights of a son.
Dalhousie asserted the paramount power’s right of approving such adoptions and of acting at discretion in their absence in the case of dependent states.
Annexation in the absence of a natural or adopted heir was enforced in the cases of
- Satara (1848),
- Jaitpur and Sambalpur (1849),
- Baghat (1850),
- Chota Udaipur (1852),
- Jhansi (1853), and
- Nagpur (1854)
Question : 6
Which one of the following had drafted the Hindu Widows Remarriage Act ?
a) Lord Hardinge
b) Lord Dalhousie
c) Lord Canning
d) None of the above
Answer »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.
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