Class 8 History Chapter 6 Colonialism and the City

(i) Which group of cities was recognized as Presidency cities?

• (a) Bombay, Orissa, and Calcutta

• (b) Bombay, Madras, and Vishakhapatnam

• (c) Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta

• (d) Madras, Rajasthan, and Calcutta

(ii) The capital of British India before Delhi was

• (a) Madras

• (b) Bombay

• (c) Orissa

• (d) Calcutta

iii) The Delhi College was built in the year

• (a) 1792

• (b) 1785

• (c) 1700

• (d) 1695

3. In 1877, Viceroy Lytton organized a grand durbar to acknowledge Queen Victoria as the Empress of India at’

• (a) Calcutta

• (b) Delhi

• (c) Bombay

• (d) Madras

5. The Viceroy’s Palace is now known as

• (a) Rashtrapati Bhavan

• (b) Pradhanmantri Bhavan

• (c) Mantri Bhavan

• (d) Raj Bhavan,

6. The first structure to successfully use the dome was called the …………

(a)  

The two architects who designed New Delhi and Shahjahanabad were …………… and ………..

• Edward II & Herber

• Edward Lutyens & Herber

• Herber & John Beniyen

• Edward & Henry

The first structure to successfully use the dome was called the …………

(a)  

9.Which of the following was a manufacturing town?

• Madurai

• Dacca

• Agra

• Surat

10.most of the migrants in Delhi from where?

• Bengal

• Assam

• Punjab

• Rajasthan