initial modern india Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

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: (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

1. Satara (1848),
2. Jaitpur and Sambalpur (1849),
3. Baghat (1850),
4. Chota Udaipur (1852),
5. Jhansi (1853), and
6. Nagpur (1854)

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.