British Period Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions

Question : 21

In which year were Factories opened for the first time in Orissa.

a) 1613 A.D.

b) 1632 A.D.

c) 1639 A.D.

d) 1663 A.D.

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Question : 22

Who was the architect of Communal Award?

a) Lord Linlithgow

b) Lord Reading

c) Lord Irwin

d) Ramsay Macdonald

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Question : 23

Which of the following is wrongly matched?

a) The Pitt’s India Act (1784)—Board of Control to guide and control Company affairs.

b) Charter Act of 1813—Company’s monopoly of trade with India ended.

c) Charter Act of 1833—Company’s debt taken over by the Government of India.

d) Charter Act of 1853—To regulate Company’s affairs.

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Question : 24

The Cape of Good Hope was discovered by

a) Vasco-da-Gama

b) Dc almeida

c) Albuquerque Diaz

d) Bartholomew

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Question : 25

Which of the following is regarded as the Magna Carta of western education system in India?

a) The report of the Committee of Public Instruction, 1823

b) The Charter Act of 1833.

c) Despatch of Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State, 1854

d) Report of the Hunter Commission, 1862

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