East India Company and Nawab of Bengal Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 16 [Uttarakhand UDA/LDA (Pre) 2007]

Who was the founder of British Empire in India?

a) Warren Hastings

b) Lord Amherst

c) Lord Robert Clive

d) Lord William Bentinck

Question : 17

‘The Musalman’, the handwritten daily newspaper in circulation since 1927, is published from which one of the following places?

a) Chennai

b) Hyderabad

c) Mysore

d) Lucknow

Question : 18

The following are connected with the First Anglo- Maratha War 1779- 82:

1. Convention of Wadgaon
2. Treaty of Purandar
3. Treaty of Surat
4. Treaty of Salbai

a) 3-2-1-4

b) 2-1-3-4

c) 4-2-1-3

d) 1-4-3-2

Question : 19

a) A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3

b) A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2

c) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1

d) A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4

Question : 20

Tipu Sultan was defeated and killed in the Fourth Anglo- Mysore War (1799). Who of the following did not give a share in Tipu’s territories?

a) The Marathas

b) The English

c) The Nizam

d) The Hindu dynasty of Mysore