initial modern india Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

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)

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: (c)

In 1835, the British started striking Indian coins with the portrait of the British king. British India Coins (1862 – 1947) was stuck under the authority of the crown.

The new coins minted under the Coinage Act, 1835 had the effigy of William IV on the obverse and the value on the reverse in English and Persian.

The coins issued after 1840 bore the portrait of Queen Victoria. The first coinage under the crown was issued in 1862 and in 1877 Queen Victoria assumed the title of the Empress of India.

We have tried to cover the Uniform coinage of this period.

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.