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1.

Who was the last Viceroy of India?

a)

(a) Lord Canning

b)

(b) Lord Mountbatten

c)

(c) dtipon

d)

(d) Lord Wellesley

2.

Medieval period was

a)

(a) the old period of history

b)

(b) the period associated with the growth of all the forces of modernity

c)

(c) none of the above

3.

The British thought surveys were important for

a)

(a) writing history

b)

(b) effective judgement

c)

(c) effective administration

d)

(d) none of these

4.

The British preserve official documents because

a)

(a) the preserved documents reveal the progress made by country in the past

b)

(b) one can study the notes and reports which were prepared in the past

c)

(c) their copies may be made and used in modern times

d)

(d) all of the above

5.

Which one of the sources do historians use in writing about the last 250 years of Indian history?

a)

(а) Official records of the French administration

b)

(b) Official records of the British administration

c)

(c) Official records of the Church administration

d)

(d) None of the above

6.

Which of the following is NOT the period of division of Indian History by James Mill?

a)

(a) Hindu

b)

(b) Muslim

c)

(c) Christians

d)

(d) Sikhs

7.

Which is NOT the source of describing history.?

a)

(a) Diaries of people

b)

(b) Conversation between two people

c)

(c) Accounts of pilgrims and travellers

d)

(d) Autobiographies of important personalities

8.

The National Archives of* India came up in the

a)

(a) 1910s

b)

(b) 1920s

c)

d)

(d) 1940s

9.

1. Lawrence was a prominent Viceroy of India.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

2. Curzon was a Governor General of India.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

3. James Mill published a newspaper in 1817.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

4. We need to divide history into different periods.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

5. The British came to India to know about its great culture.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

6. History deals with changes that occur over time.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Which of the following was NOT the Presidency ?

a)

(a) Bengal

b)

(b) Madras

c)

(c) Bombay

d)

(d) Kalikata

16.

Tipu Sultan stopped export through his kingdom in

a)

(a) 1764

b)

(b) 1772

c)

(c) 1785

d)

(d) 1790

17.

The first English factory was set up in the year

a)

(a) 1600

b)

(b) 1651

c)

(c) 1655

d)

(d) 1665

18.

Who discovered the sea route to India in 1498?

a)

(a) Columbus

b)

(b) Dutch

c)

(c) East India Company

d)

(d) Vasco-da-Gama

19.

Robert Clive committed suicide in the year

a)

(a) 1770

b)

(b) 1743

c)

(c) 1767

d)

(d) 1774

20.

The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in the year

a)

(a) 1743

b)

(b) 1752

c)

(c) 1761

d)

(d) 1763

21.

Rani Channamma was the ruler of

a)

(a) Bengal

b)

(b) Kitoor

c)

(c) Agra

d)

(d) delhi

22.

Haidar Ali was the ruler of

a)

(a) Bengal

b)

(b) Delhi

c)

(c) Bombay

d)

(d) Mysore

23.

European trading companies were attracted to India due to

a)

(a) cheap land

b)

(b) cheap labour

c)

(c) raw material like cotton silk and spices

d)

(d) none of these

24.

Competition among the companies resulted in

a)

(a) reduced profits of companies

b)

(b) quality of goods increased

c)

(c) price became low

d)

(d) none of these

25.

1. The British originally came as traders

a)

True

b)

False

26.

2. The battle of Buxar ended in 1764.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

3. Second Anglo Maratha war was fought in 1757.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

4. Maratha kingdoms were located mainly in the northern part of India.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

5. The army was known as sepoy army during company’s rule.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

The Champaran movement was against

a)

(a) peasants

b)

(b) East India Company

c)

(c) the oppressive attitude of the planters

d)

(d) none of the above

31.

The Company was appointed as the Diwan of Bengal in

a)

(a) 1762

b)

(b) 1763

c)

(c) 1764

d)

(d) 1765

32.

Gandhiji visited Champaran

a)

(a) to see the plight of Indigo planters in Champaran

b)

(b) to see the progress of’Indigo plantation

c)

(c) to see the managing system of company

d)

(d) none of the above

33.

Who devised the new-system of revenue called Mahalwari?

a)

(a) Queen Elizabeth

b)

(b) Holt Mackenzie

c)

(c) Queen Victoria

d)

(d) Gandhiji

34.

Growers of woad in Europe saw crop as competition to their earnings.

a)

(a) tea

b)

(b) rubber

c)

(c) indigo

d)

(d) coffee

35.

Indigo production came down in Bengal in

a)

(a) 1850

b)

(b) 1852

c)

(c) 1855

d)

(d) 1859

36.

Who had developed the Munro system?

a)

(a) Capiain Alexander

b)

(b) Holt Mackenzie

c)

(c) Thomas Munro

d)

(d) None of these

37.

How much proportion of Indigo was imported from India by Britain in 1810?

a)

(a) 75%

b)

(b) 95%

c)

(c) 90%

d)

(d) 85%

38.

H.T. Colebrook describes the conditions of the under-tenant farmers in

a)

(a) 1800

b)

(b) 1805

c)

(c) 1806

d)

(d) 1810

39.

After harvest, the indigo plant was taken to the in the indigo factory.

a)

(a) dye

b)

(b) vat

c)

(c) farm

d)

(d) machine

40.

The international demand of indigo was affected by the discovery of

a)

(a) synthetic dyes

b)

(b) woad

c)

(c) blue colour

d)

(d) none of these

41.

1. The demand for indigo increased in late seventeenth century.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

2. Revenues were fixed in the permanent settlement.

a)

True

b)

False

43.

3. The company purchased goods in India before 1865 through gold and silver imports.

a)

True

b)

False

44.

4. Mahalwari system came into existence in 1700.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

5. Very high rate of revenue was the major problem of ryotwari system.

a)

True

b)

False

46.

6. Weekly markets were very flourishing during economic crisis of Bengal.

a)

True

b)

False

47.

7. The company introduced the Permanent Settlement in 1793.

a)

True

b)

False

48.

The local weavers and leather workers turned to ………………… for supplies of Kusum and Palash flowers.

a)

(a) Santhals

b)

(b) Mundas

c)

(c) Khonds

d)

d) Labadis

49.

The Bastar Rebellion in Central India broke out in

a)

(a) 1900

b)

(b) 1910

c)

d)

(d) 1940

50.

Which revolt was popular in Maharashtra in 1940?

a)

(a) The Kols

b)

(b) The Bastar

c)

(c) The Warli

d)

(d) Birsa movement

51.

The Khonds lived in

a)

(a) Karnataka

b)

(b) Madhya Pradesh

c)

(c) Bihar

d)

(d) Odisha

52.

What type of lives did the herders live?

a)

(a) Sophisticated

b)

(b) Settled

c)

(c) Nomadic

d)

(d) None of these

53.

…………….. tribe practised settled agriculture.

a)

(a) Khonds

b)

(b) Santhals

c)

(c) Labadis of Andhra Pradesh

d)

(d) Mundas of Chottanagpur Plateau

54.

Jhum cultivation is practised these days in

a)

(a) eastern states of India

b)

(b) western states of India

c)

(c) northern states of India

d)

(d) southern states of India

55.

Santhals tribe rose in revolt in the year

a)

(a) 1900

b)

(b) 1855

c)

d)

(d) 1930

56.

In many regions Forest Department set up forest villages to ensure

a)

(a) a regular supply of cheap labour

b)

(b) a regular supply of forest produce

c)

(c) a regular supply of agricultural produce

d)

(d) none of the above

57.

The revolt of Songram Sangma rose in the year 1906 in

a)

(a) Bengal

b)

(b) Madhya Pradesh

c)

(c) Assam

d)

(d) Odisha

58.

The forest Satyagraha rose in the central provinces in

a)

(a) 1910

b)

(b) 1920

c)

d)

(d) 1940

59.

Birsa spent time in the company of …………….. preachers.

a)

(a) Buddha

b)

(b) Vaishnav

c)

(c) Sikhs

d)

(d) None of these

60.

1. Birsa himself declared that God had appointed him to rule his people,

a)

True

b)

False

61.

2. The British described the tribal people as diku.

a)

True

b)

False

62.

3. Birsa was born in a family of Santhal.

a)

True

b)

False

63.

4. Bakkarwalas of Kashmir are shepherds.

a)

True

b)

False

64.

5. Birsp was arrested in 1895.

a)

True

b)

False

65.

6. Birs’q, died in 1900.

a)

True

b)

False

66.

Bakht Kfian was a soldier from

a)

(a) Meerut

b)

(b) Agra

c)

(c) Bareily

d)

(d) Delhi

67.

……………….. continued to fight a guerrilla war against British.

a)

(a) Rani Lakshmibai

b)

(b) Tantia Tope

c)

(c) Nana Saheb

d)

(d) Peshwa Baji Rao II

68.

The Mutiny started from

a)

(a) Bareilly

b)

(b) Delhi

c)

(c) Agra

d)

(d) Meerut

69.

How many sepoys were dismissed from service and sentenced to ten years in jail on 9 May, 1857?

a)

(a) Eighty

b)

(b) Eighty-five

c)

(c) Ninety

d)

(d) Ninety-five

70.

The sepoys were angry with the British because

a)

(a) of their policy of divide and rule

b)

(b) of the cartridge episode

c)

(c) of their intolerating behaviour

d)

(d) none of these

71.

Which emperor blessed the Mutiny?

a)

(a) Mir Zafar

b)

(b) Bahadur Shah Zafar

c)

(c) Bhakt Khan

d)

(d) None of these

72.

Who was given the title of viceroy?

a)

(a) Chief Commissioner

b)

(b) Governor General

c)

(c) Forest Manager

d)

(d) None of these

73.

Subsidiary Alliance was imposed on Awadh in

a)

(a) 1800

b)

(b) 1801

c)

(c) 1810

d)

(d) 1815

74.

When was law making conversion to Christianity made easier?

a)

(a) 1810

b)

(b) 1815

c)

(c) 1850

d)

(d) 1855

75.

Which of the following is the decision taken by British to reform the Indian Society?

a)

(a) Law against the practice of Sati

b)

(b) They encouraged the remarriage of widow

c)

(c) English education was actively promoted

d)

(d) All of the above

76.

1. Meerut was one of the last territory to be annexed.

a)

True

b)

False

77.

2. The sepoys were angry with the British because the photo of Bahadur Shah Zafar was removed from the coins.

a)

True

b)

False

78.

3. In 1857, Mangal Pandey was hanged to death for attacking his officers in Barrackpore.

a)

True

b)

False

79.

4. British were very happy after 1857 Revolt.

a)

True

b)

False

80.

5. The British passed a new act in 1858 transferring the powers of East India Company to British crown.

a)

True

b)

False

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