initial modern india mcq set 4 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

The East India Company was brought under the parliamentary control in 1773. The Parliament of Great Britain imposed a series of administrative and economic reforms by the Regulating Act of 1773 and by doing so clearly established its sovereignty and ultimate control over the Company.

Answer: (d)

Lord Cornwallis introduced permanent settlement in Bengal. The land was given on permanent basis to the Zamindars. This system brought prosperity to both the company and the Zamindars at the cost of the common peasantry.

Answer: (d)

Permanent settlement comprises Zamindar as middleman to collect the land revenue. The Zamindars were made the owners of the whole land in their Zamindari as long as they paid their dues to the state and they worked as agents of government in collecting the land revenue.

Answer: (b)

Cornwallis code of 1793 separated civil administration from judicial administration. The greatest work of Cornwallis was the purification of the civil service by the employment of capable and honest public servants.

He aimed at economy, simplification, and purity. Another major reform that Cornwallis introduced was the separation of the three branches of service, namely commercial, judicial, and revenue.

Answer: (a)

The British East India Company has formed during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Commonly associated with trade-in basic commodities, which included cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpeter, tea, and opium, the Company received a Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth in 1600, making it the oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies.

Answer: (b)