indian constitutional development quiz set 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

The Government of India Act 1858, known as the Act for the Good Government of India, provided for liquidation of East India Company and transferred the powers of government, territories and revenues to the British Crown.

The Company's territories in India were vested in the Queen, the Company ceasing to exercise its power and control over these territories. India was to be governed in the Queen's name.

Answer: (c)

The English word “caste” derives from the Spanish and Portuguese casta, which the Oxford English Dictionary quotes John Minsheu’s Spanish dictionary (1599) to mean, “race, lineage, or breed.” When the Spanish colonized the New World, they used the word to mean a “clan or lineage.”

However, it was the Portuguese who employed casta in the primary modern sense when they applied it to the many in marrying hereditary Hindu social groups they encountered upon their arrival in India in 1498.

The use of the spelling “caste,” with this latter meaning, is first attested to in English in 1613.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

The Constitution of India was adopted by Constituent Assembly on November 26,1949 and came into force on January 26,1950.

Answer: (c)

Part I of the Constitution of India describes the nation that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. It also mentions that the states and the territories shall be specified in the First Schedule.