Initial Modern India Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions

Question : 16

Which of the following statement(s) is /are correct

1. Lord Cornwallis created cavenated civil services
2. William Bentinck banned sati practice in India.

Select the correct option from the codes given below:

a) 2 only

b) 1 and 2 both

c) 1 only

d) None

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Question : 17

Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

 Codes: A B C D

a) 1 2 3 4

b) 1 2 4 3

c) 2 1 3 4

d) 4 3 2 1

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Question : 18

Which one of the following European trading companies adopted the “Blue Water Policy” in India?

a) British East India company

b) French company

c) Dutch company

d) Portuguese company

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Question : 19

Which one of the following poets had said that the Battle of Plassey was ‘A Night of Eternal Gloom’?

a) Subramania Bharti

b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

c) Navin Chandra Sen

d) Ravindranath Tagore

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Question : 20

What was the bone of contention between Nizam Ali, the ruler of Hydrabad and the English?

a) The Northern Sarkars

b) Karnataka

c) Masulipatanum

d) The Sarkar of Guntur

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