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1. The policy of ‘Security cell’ is related with

(A) Warren Hastings

(B) Lord Dalhousie

(D) Lord Hastings

2. ‘Ring Fence’ policy is associated with

(A) Henry Lawrence

(B) Dalhousie

(D) Lord Clive

3. The first Governor-General of India was

(A) Robert Clive

(B) Warren Hastings

(D) Lord Dalhousie

4. At the time of the establishment of Asiatic Society in Calcutta, who was the Governor-General of Bengal?

(A) Lord Cornwallis

(B) Lord Warren Hastings

(D) Lord Bentinck

5. Who among the following abolished ‘Dual Government’ system in Bengal?

(A) Robert Clive

(B) Lord Cornwallis

(D) None of the above

6. Which Governor-General was prosecuted for impeachment?

(A) Warren Hastings

(B) Lord Clive

(D) Lord Wellesley

7. The transfer of capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi was affected during the period of

(A) Lord Minto

(B) Lord Hardinge

(D) Lord Reading

8. Who established the judicial organization in India?

(A) Lord Mayo

(B) Lord Cornwallis

(D) Lord Curzon

9. Who among the following Governor-Generals created the Covenanted Civil Service of India which later came to be known as the Indian Civil Service? [

(A) Warren Hastings

(B) Wellesley

(D) William Bentinck

10. The enforcement of the Public Service was done in

(A) tenure of Bentinck

(B) tenure of Cornwallis

(D) tenure of Dalhousie

11. The Tomb of Lord Cornwallis is situated at

(A) Ghazipur

(B) Ballia

(D) Gorakhpur

12. Between whom was the ‘Treaty of Bassein’ signed in 1802?

(A) English and Bajirao I

(B) English and Bajirao II

(D) Dutch and Bajirao II

13. First Maratha Sardar to accept the subsidiary alliance of Lord Wellesley was

(A) Peshwa Bajirao II

(B) Raghuji Bhosle

(D) None of the above

14. Subsidiary Alliance was implemented during the reign of

(A) Lord Cornwallis

(B) Lord Wellesley

(D) Lord Auckland

15. Who was the first Indian native ruler to accept the system of the subsidiary alliance?

(A) Sindhia of Gwalior

(B) Nizam of Hyderabad

(D) Gaikwad of Baroda

16. The first Indian ruler who joined the Subsidiary Alliance was

(A) The Nawab of Awadh

(B) The Nizam of Hyderabad

(D) The King of Travancore

17. The Subsidiary Alliance was not accepted by

(A) The Nizam of Hyderabad

(B) The Holkar state of Indore

(D) The Ruler of Mysore

18. Who introduced Subsidiary Alliance System in the https://himexam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Madhya-Pradesh-MP-PEB-Group-2-Sub-Group-4-Various-Post-Answer-Key-2021.jpgistration to establish the British power over the Indian States?

(A) Warren Hastings

(B) Lord Wellesley

(D) Lord Dalhousie

19. The main aim of East India Company to make subsidiary alliance in Rajput states was

(A) Receiving military support against enemies

(B) Protecting these states from Maratha-Pindari invasion

(D) To establish the sovereignty of the British

20. At the time when empires in Europe were crumbling before the might of Napoleon, which one of the following Governors-General kept the British flag flying high in India?

(A) Lord Dalhousie

(B) Lord Cornwallis

(D) Lord Hastings

21. The revolt of Vellore occur during the regime of which Governor?

(A) Wellesley

(B) Lord Minto

(D) Sir George Barlow

22. Anglo-Nepal War took place during the reign of

(A) Lord Cornwallis

(B) Lord Hastings

(D) Warren Hastings

23. The Treaty of Sigauli took place in the year

(A) 1800 A.D.

(B) 1803 A.D.

. (D) 1816 A.D.

24. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) Hector Munro – Battle of Buxar

(B) Lord Hastings – Anglo-Nepal War

(D) Lord Cornwallis – Third Anglo – Maratha War

25. Third Anglo-Maratha war is related to

(A) Sir John Shore

(B) Lord Wellesley

(D) Lord Cornwallis

26. Sir Thomas Munro was Governor of Madras during years

(A) 1820-1827 A.D.

(B) 1819-1826 A.D.

(D) 1818-1825 A.D.

27. On the basis of alleged malhttps://himexam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Madhya-Pradesh-MP-PEB-Group-2-Sub-Group-4-Various-Post-Answer-Key-2021.jpgistration which Governor-General had taken the https://himexam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Madhya-Pradesh-MP-PEB-Group-2-Sub-Group-4-Various-Post-Answer-Key-2021.jpgistration of Mysore state?

(A) Lord Wellesley

(B) Lord Hastings

(D) Lord Harding

28. Who among the following Governor-Generals of Bengal was associated with Third AngloMysore War?

(A) Warren Hastings

(B) Lord Cornwallis

(D) Lord William Cavendish Bentinck

29. Who among the following was associated with suppression of thugs?

(A) General Henry Prendergast

(B) Captain Sleeman

(D) Captain Robert Pemberton

30. Sati system was abolished by

(A) Lord Warren Hastings

(B) Lord Wellesley

(D) Lord Ripon

31. In which year Sati System was abolished by William Bentinck?

(A) 1825 A.D.

(B) 1827 A.D.

(D) 1830 A.D.

32. ‘Hill Assembly Plan’ was set up for the development of Adivasi by

(A) T. Wilkinson

(B) Cleveland

(D) Lord Macaulay

33. The export of slaves from Bengal was banned in which year?

(A) 1764

(B) 1789

(D) 1868

34. Awadh was annexed to British Empire in India by

(A) Policy of subsidiary alliance

(B) Doctrine of Lapse

(C) By declaring the State as malhttps://himexam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Madhya-Pradesh-MP-PEB-Group-2-Sub-Group-4-Various-Post-Answer-Key-2021.jpgistered

(D) By waging war

35. James Andrew Ramsay was the real name of which Governor-General of India?

(A) Lord Dalhousie

(B) Lord Canning

(D) Lord Curzon

36. Awadh was amalgamated into the British dominion in year

(A) 1853

(B) 1854

(D) 1856

37. Which of the underwritten pairs is correctly matched?

(A) 1849 A.D. – Merger of Satara

(B) 1848 A.D. – Merger of Punjab

(D) 1855 A.D. – Merger of Jhansi

38. Who among the following formulated and implemented the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’?

(A) Wellesley

(B) Hastings

(D) Clive

39. The ruler of which one of the following states was removed from power by the British on the pretext of misgovernance?

(A) Awadh

(B) Jhansi

(D) Satara

40. Which of the following was the first victim of Lord Dalhousie’s policy of doctrine of lapse?

(A) Jhansi

(B) Satara

(D) Sambhalpur

41. The conquest of Sindh by British was completed during the period of

(A) Lord Ellenborough

(B) Lord Hardinge

(D) Lord Amherst

42. Sindh was annexed by the British in

(A) 1843

(B) 1845

(D) 1854

43. The princely state of Baghat was annexed to the British in

(A) 1848

(B) 1850

(D) 1853

44. Who among the following was the British residence in Awadh at the time of its annexation into British Dominion?

(A) James Outram

(B) W.H. Sleeman

(D) General Low

45. The first railway in India was laid down during the period of

(A) Lord Dalhousie

(B) Lord Curzon

(D) Lord Lytton

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46. The first railway line was opened in India between

(A) Howrah and Serampore

(B) Bombay and Thane

(D) Delhi and Agra

47. The first railway line in India was started in the year

(A) 1853

(B) 1850

(D) 1890

48. Which company started the First Railway Service in India?

(A) Eastern Railway

(B) Great Indian Peninsula Railway

(D) Awadh-Tirhut Railway 4

9. The last major extension of British Indian territory took place during the time of

(A) Dufferin

(B) Dalhousie

(D) Curzon

50. Public Works Department was organised in 1845-1855 by

(A) Lord Dalhousie

(B) Lord Cornwallis

(D) Warren Hastings

51. In whose rule the Widow Remarriage Act was implemented in

(A) Lord Dalhousie

(B) Lord Canning

(D) Lord Lawrence

52. Queen Victoria’s manifesto was read out in Allahabad on November 1, 1858 by

(A) Lord William Bentinck

(B) Lord Canning

(D) Sir Harcourt Butler

53. Who of the following was the first Viceroy of India?

(A) Lord Clive

(B) Lord Cornwallis

(D) Lord Ripon

54. Queen Victoria’s Proclamation was read out by Lord Canning on 1st November, 1858 at

(A) Allahabad

(B) Calcutta

(D) Madras

55. The right to adopt heir in place of own son was reestablished by

(A) Government of India Act of 1858

(B) Lord Canning

(D) Queen’s announcement of 1858

56. Queen Victoria was appointed the Empress of India in

(A) 1858

(B) 1876

(D) 1885

57. Which Governor-General had abolished slavery?

(A) Lord Cornwallis

(B) Lord Ellenborough

(D) Sir John Shore

58. Which one of the following is correctly matched?

(A) Lord Cornwallis – Permanent Settlement

(B) Lord Wellesley – Masterly Inactivity

(D) Lord Canning – Foundation of Indian National Congress

59. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

(A) Lord Cornwallis – Permanent Settlement

(B) Lord Wellesley – Subsidiary Alliance

(D) Lord Canning – Masterly Inactivity

60. ‘Permanent Settlement’ was introduced during the tenure of

(A) Warren Hastings

(B) Lord Cornwallis

(D) Lord Wellesley

61. Which of the following is not correctly matched?

(A) Lord Cornwallis – Permanent Settlement

(B) Lord Wellesley – Subsidiary Alliance System

(D) Lord William Bentinck – Seventeenth Regulation of 1829

62. When was Peshwaship abolished?

(A) 1858

(B) 1818

(D) 1802

63. Which of the following is not correctly matched?

(A) Lord Cornwallis – Permanent Settlement

(B) Lord Wellesley – Subsidiary Alliance System

(D) Lord Hastings – Third AngloMaratha War

64. Which one of the following is correctly matched?

(A) Lord Ellenborough – Annexation of Awadh

(B) Lord Dalhousie – Annexation of Sindh

(D) Sir John Shore – Third AngloMaratha War

65. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) Lord Dalhousie – Annexation of Awadh

(B) Lord Dufferin – Establishment of Indian National Congress

(D) Lord Lytton – Beginning of first Anglo-Afghan War

66. Who among the following is associated with the policy of ‘Masterly Inactivity’?

(A) William Bentinck

(B) Lord Canning

(D) John Lawrence

67. The 1st census in India during the British period was held during the tenure of

(A) Lord Dufferin

(B) Lord Lytton

(D) Lord Ripon

68. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) Suppression of Thuggee – William Bentinck

(B) Ilbert Bill – Ripon

(D) Vernacular Press Act – Curzon

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69. Which one of the following Viceroy of India was murdered by a convict in Andaman and Nicobar Island while he was on tour?

(A) Lord Curzon

(B) Lord Ripon

(D) Lord Minto

70. Which viceroy was murdered in his tenure?

(A) Lord Curzon

(B) Lord Mayo

(D) Lord Wellesley

71. The Governor-General who followed a spirited ‘Forward’ policy towards Afghanistan was

(A) Minto

(B) Dufferin

(D) Lytton

72. Which among the following viceroy period the title of ‘Rai Bahadur’ and ‘Khan Bahadur’ were began to conferred to Indian?

(A) Lord Ripon

(B) Lord Lytton

(D) Lord Dufferin

73. Who had the longest tenure as the Viceroy of India?

(A) Lord Curzon

(B) Lord Dufferin

(D) Lord Mayo

74. Local Self-Government institutions in India were strengthened in 1882 by

(A) George Barlow

(B) Lord Rippon

(D) Lord Lytton

75. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) Pitt’s India Act – Warren Hastings

(B) Doctrine of Lapse – Dalhousie

(D) Ilbert Bill – Ripon

76. The Ilbert Bill controversy was related to the

(A) Imposition of certain restriction to carry by the Indians

(B) Imposition of restrictions on newspapers and magazines published in Indian language

(D) Removal of duty on imported cotton cloth

77. The first Factory Act for restricting the working hours of women and children and authorizing local government to make necessary rules was adopted during whose time?

(A) Lord Lytton

(B) Lord Bentinck

(D) Lord Canning

78. Who amongst the following is considered to be the Father of ‘Local Self-Government’ in India?

(A) Lord Dalhousie

(B) Lord Canning

(D) Lord Ripon

79. Which one of the following pairs (G.G. and Event) is properly matched?

(A) Lord Cornwallis – Regulating Act

(B) Lord Wellesley – Permanent Settlement

(D) Lord Dalhousie – First Afghan War

80. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) Hector Munro – Battle of Buxar

(B) Lord Hastings – Anglo-Nepal War

(D) Lord Cornwallis – Third AngloMaratha War

81. The Archaeological Survey of India was established in the period of

(A) Warren Hastings

(B) Lord Wellesley

(D) Lord William Bentinck

82. Who is called the ‘Father of Indian Archaeology’?

(A) Alexander Cunningham

(B) John Marshall

(D) James Prinsep

83. Who among the following was the only Jewish Viceroy of India?

(A) Lord Curzon

(B) Lord Canning

(D) Lord Reading

84. During the tenure of which Governor-General was the ‘Ancient Monuments Preservation Act’ passed?

(A) Lord Minto

(B) Lord Linlithgow

(D) Lord Canning

85. An important event of Lord Dufferin’s tenure as Viceroy was

(A) Establishment of Ramakrishna Mission

(B) Establishment of Muslim League in Dhaka

(D) Beginning of the first Census

86. Who compared Curzon’s https://himexam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Madhya-Pradesh-MP-PEB-Group-2-Sub-Group-4-Various-Post-Answer-Key-2021.jpgistration in India to that of Aurangzeb?

(A) B.G. Tilak

(B) G.K. Gokhale

(D) Annie Besant

87. ‘‘In my belief, Congress is to tottering to its fall and one of my great ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise’’. Who wrote it?

(A) Lord Lytton

(B) Lord Dufferin

(D) Lord Minto

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88. The strategy of ‘Divide and Rule’ was adopted by

(A) Lord Curzon

(B) Lord Minto

(D) Lord Wellesley

89. ‘‘The Muslims, if contented and satisfied, would become the greatest bulwark of British power in India’’. Who wrote it?

(A) Herbert Risley

(B) Lord Lytton

(D) H.N. Brailsford

90. Which of the following GovernorGeneral used the system of Separate electoral college to conquer Muslims and make them against Congress?

(A) Lord Curzon

(B) Lord Dufferin

(D) Lord Minto

91. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer.

List-I

(a) Governor-General of Presidency of Fort William in Bengal (Under Regulating Act, 1773)

(b) Governor-General of India (Under Charter Act, 1833)

(d) Governor-General and Crown Representative (Under Government of India Act, 1935)

List-II

1. Archibald/Percival Wavell, Viscount and Earl Wavell

2. James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, Earl and Marquess of Dalhousie

3. Charles Cornwallis 2nd Earl and first Marquess of Cornwallis

4. Gibert John Elliot-MurrayKynynmond, Earl of Minto

5. Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 3 2 4 1

(B) 3 4 1 5

(D) 4 2 3 1

92. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List-I ‘

(a) Clive

(b) Bentinck

d) Curzon

List-II

1. Removal of press restriction

2. Partition of Bengal

3. Dual Govt. in Bengal

4. English Education

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 3 4 1 2

(B) 4 1 3 2

(D) 3 2 1 4

93. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List-I

(a) Lord Dalhousie

(b) Lord William Bentinck

(d) Lord Curzon

List-II

1. Prohibition of Sati

2. Local Self-Government

3. Division of Bengal

4. Doctrine of Lapse

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 4 1 2 3

(B) 4 2 1 3

(D) 1 3 2 4

94. Match the following and select the correct answer from the code given below.

List-I

(a) Doctrine of Lapse

(b) Partition of Bengal

(d) Social Reforms

List-II

1. Curzon

2. Clive

3. Dalhousie

4. Bentinck

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2 3 1 4

(B) 3 1 4 2

(D) 2 3 4 1

95. Consider the following statements.

1. Robert Clive was the first Governor – General of Bengal

2. William Bentinck was the first Governor-General of India

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(A) Only 1

(B) Only 2

(D) Neither 1 nor 2

96. Which one of the following statements is not true?

(A) The foundation of the system of civil https://himexam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Madhya-Pradesh-MP-PEB-Group-2-Sub-Group-4-Various-Post-Answer-Key-2021.jpgistration, was firmly laid down by Warren Hastings on which the superstructure was raised by Cornwallis

(B) Clive was responsible for reforming the East India Company’s Civil and Military Services

(D) Lord Dalhousie added rich lemitones to the British Empire on the basis of the Doctrine of Lapse

97. Consider the following which concluded the subsidiary alliances with Lord Wellesley and finds the correct chronological order of their treaties from the code given below.

1. Hyderabad

2. Mysore

3. Awadh

4. Sindhia

Code

(A) 1, 2, 3, 4

(B) 1, 3, 4, 2

(D) 3, 2, 1, 4

98. Who among the following was/were associated with the introduction of Ryotwari Settlement in India during the British rule?

1. Lord Cornwallis

2. Alexander Read

3. Thomas Munro

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

(A) Only 1

(B) Only 1 and 3

(D) 1, 2 and 3

99. Consider the following princely States of the British rule in India.

1. Jhansi

2. Sambalpur

3. Satara

The correct chronological order in which they were annexed by the British is

(A) 1, 2, 3

(B) 1, 3, 2

(D) 3, 1, 2

100. Consider the following statements.

1. The Factories Act, 1881 was passed with a view to fix the wages of industrial workers and to allow the workers to form trade unions.

2. N.M. Lokhande was a pioneer in organizing the labour movement in British India.

Which of the above statements is/ are correct?

(A) Only 1

(B) Only 2

(D) Neither 1 nor 2

101. Consider the following Viceroys of India during the British rule.

1. Lord Curzon

2. Lord Hardinge

3. Lord Chelmsford

4. Lord Irwin

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of their tenure?

(A) 1, 2, 3, 4

(B) 2, 4, 1, 3

(D) 2, 3, 1, 4

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