Colonialism and urban change

The Municipal Improvement Act was passed in

• 1964

• 1864

• 1872

• 1821

The first railway line was laid from Bombay to

• Calcutta

• Nagpur

• Thane

• Chennai

Before Delhi, the capital of British India was

• Madras

• Bombay

• Calcutta

• Mysore

The chief architect of New Delhi was

• Edward Lutyens

• Lord Cornwallis

• Lord Hardinge

• Lord ripon

The Rashtrapati Bhavan was earlier known as

• Secretariat

• Viceregal lodge

• South Block

• Parliament

The first telegraph line between calcutta and

• Delhi

• Varanasi

• Agra

• Lucknow

Cantonment was a

• military settlements

• railway lines

• ports

• educational hub

Bombay was major export of

• Jute

• Indigo

• raw cotton

• spices

Moat means

• a wide street

• a deep wide channel dug around a castle

• a main road in a city

• a large building

Who set up a public works department in 1854?

• Lord Cornwallis

• Lord ripon

• Lord Dalhousie

• Lord Curzon