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736.When does the English East India company was established?
31 December 1600
26 October 1600
19 November 1600
14 December 1600
737.Who is the Person does Company sent to seek Permission to establish the Company and Where:
Captain Hawkins,Surat
Sir Thomas Roe,Surat
Francis Day,Ahamadabad
St. George, Mumbai
738.In Which Year Jahangir Issued Permission to establish East India Company in Surat
1621
1631
1613
1615
739.What are all the Cities where the English established the sea-coast of India were grouped under?
Bombay
Madras
Calcutta
All the Above
740.In which year Battle of Plassey held
1757
1756
1796
1763
741.In which year Battle of Buxar held
1789
1757
1796
1764
742.Who was the first Governor of Fort William under the Companys rule?
Robert Clive
Sir Thomas Roe
Francis Day
St. George
743.In which Year the Company appointed Warren Hastings as the Governor of Fort William
1772
1776
1773
1771
744.In whose Period did Calcutta became the capital of Bengal
Warren Hastings, 1772
Robert Clive,1772
Sir Thomas Roe
Captain Hawkins
745.After the abolition of the Dual System the responsibility of collecting the revenue fell on
Board of Revenue
Board of Economy
Board of Reforms
Board of Re-investors
746.The Board of Revenue Changed the auction period by
Two years instead of one year
Five years instead of one year
Four years instead of one year
Ten years instead of one year
747.During the Period of Warren Hastings, The highest civil court of appeal was called as
Sadar Diwani Adalat
Sadar Nizamat Adalat
Sadar Nizammudin Adalat
Sadar Diwas Adalat
748.During the Period of Warren Hastings, The highest appellate criminal court was known as
Sadar Diwani Adalat
Sadar Nizamat Adalat
Sadar Nizammudin Adalat
Sadar Diwas Adalat
749.Warren Hastings abolished the system in Trade called
System of dastaks
System of trade
System of Shipping
System of taks
750.Which act brings the East India Company under the control of the Parliament?
The Regulating Act 1774
The Regulating Act 1773
The Regulating Act 1772
The Regulating Act 1771
751.What are all the main defects of Regulating Act 1773
The Governor-General was made powerless
Judges was made powerless
Collectors was made powerless
None of the above
752.In which period the First Anglo-Maratha War held
1775-82
1775-81
1775-83
1775-80
753.Who is the Ruler of Rohilkand
Warren Hastings
Nawab of Oudh
Ragunatha Rao
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
754.In which year The British authorities in Bombay concluded the Treaty of Surat with Raghunatha Rao
April 1776
October 1775
March 1775
November 1775
755.Who cancelled Treaty of Surat and concluded the Treaty of Purander with Nana Fadnavis
Colonel Upton
Warren Hastings
Nawab of Oudh
Ragunatha Rao
756.Warren Hastings also considered the Treaty of Purandar as a
scrap of paper
Cancelled operation
Acceptable Operation
Decline
757.Captain Popham defeated the Maratha chief, Mahadaji Scindia and captured which city
Mumbai
Delhi
Varanashi
Gwalior
758.In May 1782__________________ was signed between Warren Hastings and Mahadaji Scindia.
Treaty of Salbai
Treaty of Surat
Treaty of Purander
Treaty of marathas
759.In which period the The Second Anglo-Mysore War held
1780-84
1775-81
1775-83
1775-80
760.When did the first Anglo-Mysore War took place
1767-69
1780-84
1775-81
1775-83
761.The Second Mysore War came to an end by the Treaty of
Guwalir in 1785
Mangalore in 1783.
Surat in1785
Purandhar in 1785
762.A Board of Control consisting of six members was created in
Pitts India Act, 1784
Pitts India Act, 1773
Pitts India Act, 1794
Pitts India Act, 1804
763.Pitts India Act, 1784 reduced the number of the members of the Governor-Generals Council from
four to three
four to two
three to one
None of the above
764.When did Warren Hastings resigned and left India
March 1784
December 1784
April 1785
June 1785
765.Who succeeded Warren Hastings as Governor-General in 1786
Lord Cornwallis
Nawab of Oudh.
Edmund Burke
Nanda Kumar
766.When did the Third Mysore War held
1790-92
1792-93
1791-92
1790-93
767.In which year the The Treaty of Mangalore took place
1785
1786
1783
1784
768.In 1789, the British concluded a tripartite alliance with the Nizam and the Marathas against which leader
Tipu Sultan
Raja of Travancore
Nizam of Hyderabad
French
769.What are all the terms in Treaty of Srirangapattinam
i.Tipu had to give up half his dominions.
ii. He had to pay a war indemnity of three crore rupees and surrender two of his sons as hostages to the English.
iii. Both sides agreed to release the prisoners of war.
Both i & ii
Only i
Only ii
All the above
770.The internal reforms of Cornwallis can be studied under
i. Administrative reforms
ii. Revenue reforms or Permanent Settlement
iii. Judicial and other reforms
Both i & ii
Only i
Only ii
All the above
771.Who was regarded as Nana Sahib?
Balaji Baji Rao
Balaji Viswanath
Madhav Rao
Baji Rao I
772.Who founded the Amrita Bazar Patrika?
Girish Chandra Ghosh
Harish Chandra Mukherjee
S.N. Banerjee
Sisir Kumar Ghosh
773.Where did the so – called Black Hole Episode take place?
Murshidabad
Dacca
Monghyr
Calcultta
774.Which British officer defeated Mir Qasim in a series of battles in 1763?
Major Hector Munro
Major Adams
Colonel Malleson
Colonel Holwell
775.When did the British make English the medium of Instruction in India?
1813
1833
1835
1844
776.Sir Charles Wood, who drafted the Educational Dispatch of 1854, was the then:
Secretary of State for India
President of the Court of Directors
President of the Board of Control
Prime Minister of England
777.Who was the first to attempt decentralization of financial administration?
Ripon
Mayo
Lytton
Curzon
778.Who was a judge and a great scholar during Cornwallis Period?
Sir William Jones
Nizamat Adalat
Sadar Diwani Adalat
None of the above
779.Sadar Diwani Adalat and Sadar Nizamat Adalat were functioning during Cornwallis period at
Calcutta
Mumbai
Madras
Delhi
780.What is the period of Sir John Shore
1793-98
1794-98
1792-98
1795-98
781.What is the period of Richard Colley Wellesley
1794-98
1792-98
1795-98
1798-1805
782.Who introduced the Policy Subsidiary Alliance
Sir William Jones
Nizamat Adalat
Sadar Diwani Adalat
Richard Colley Wellesley
783.Wellesleys Subsidiary System increased the
Military strength
Trade strength
Agriculture strength
Educational strength
784.Why the Subsidiary System fails
The unemployment of thousands of soldiers
Poverty
Not Trustful
None of the above
785.______________ was the first state which was brought under Wellesleys Subsidiary System in 1798
Oudh
Maratha
Karnatak
Hyderabad
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