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WorksheetsHistory Revision Quiz
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 29mins
State True or False.
James mill divided Indian history into three periods- Hindu, Muslim and Christian.
True
False
Who was the First Governor General of India
Warren Hastings
Lord Mountbatten
Wellesley
Dalhousie
Who is the writer of 'A History of British India'?
Robert
Renner
James mill
Williams
Historians have usually divided Indian history into-
Ancient
Medieval
Modern
All the above
Rennel was asked by.............. to produce maps of Hindustan.
Lord Mountbatten
Warren Hastings
Robert Clive
Munro
What do you mean by Colonisation?
Conquest of one country by another.
Subjugation of two country by another country.
Subjugation of one country by another.
Conquest.
Who was the last Viceroy of India?
Lord Irwin
Lord Canning
Lord Harding
Lord Mountbatten
How did many historians refer British period in India as?
Modern
Colonial
Political subjugation
None of these
How did Mills divide Indian History?
Hindu
Muslim
British
All of the above
A major part of the Modern Indian History was occupied by ...............
The British Rule in India
The socio-economic changes
The rule of the medieval period
All of the above
Historians have divided history into _________ periods.
Three
Four
Two
Five
Prehistory is the history of the period ____________
Before the Birth of Christ
After the Birth of Christ
Before people learnt the art of writing
When people learnt the art of writing
Who produced the first map of India?
James Mill
James Rennel
James William
None of these
Who was James Mill?
Indian economist
Scottish economist
British economist
German economist
1. A person who studies the past is a:
A. Historian
B. Scientist
C. Astrologist
D. Astronomer
History is the study of the past.
True
False
Why is it important to study history? Because:
A. We can learn about other cultures.
B. We can know what happened in the past.
C. We can learn from past mistakes.
D. All of the above
James Mill wrote a book in
1817
1718
2021
1818
According to James Mill, what could British rule do?
Make India fly
Conquer India
Civilise India
Make India a floating island
Colonisation leads to which changes in a country?
Political
Economic
Both a and b
Liguistic
Hyder Ali was Tipu Sultan's _____
General
Father
Brother
How many Anglo-Mysore wars were fought?
4
5
3
Who formulated Doctrine of Lapse?
Lord Dalhousie
Robert Clive
Lord cornwallis
Who was the Ruler of the Sikh kingdom?
Hyder Ali
Ranjit Singh
Raghunath Rao
None of the above
_____ granted a Charter to East India Company in early 1600s in order to trade with India.
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
King George V
Queen Elizabeth II
In ____________ Queen Elizabeth gave a charter to the English East India Company
1600
1500
1700
1599
This nawab of Bengal asked the English East India Company to remove all its fortifications in Calcutta
Murshid Quli Khan
Siraj-ud-Daulah
Alivardi Khan
Shuja-ud-Din
This governor-General introduced the system of Subsidiary Alliance
Robert Clive
Warren Hastings
Lord Wellesley
Lord Dalhousie
One of the four agencies that carried out the day-to-day administration of the Company was the
police
cavalry
infantry
espionage
The capital of the kingdom of Mysore was
Plassey
Seringapatam
Nagpur
Awadh
Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the ruler of
Buxar
Awadh
Calcutta
Punjab
According to the historians, by the second half of the 18th century, which new power emerged as powerful in India?
CHINESE
DUTCH
BRITISH
JAPANESE
Name the place the British King Charles-II received as a dowry by marrying the Portuguese princess, which later became an important trading centre.
ISLAND OF DAMAN
ISLAND OF GOA
ISLAND OF PUDICHERRY
Island of Bombay
WHO FLED AND SEEKED SHELTER OF SHUJA - UD DAULAH, THE NAWAB OF AWADH ?
SHAH ALAM II
SIRAJ UD DAULAH
MIR QASIM
MIR JAFAR
WHICH BATTLE IS MARKED AS THE TURNING POINT OF INDIAN HISTORY ? WHY ?
CARNATIC WARS AS THE FRENCH BECAME WEAK
ANGLO MARATHA WARS AS THE PESHWA WAS REMOVED
THE SEVEN WARS OF EUROPE, MADE BRITISH WEAK
THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY , GAVE DIWANI RIGHTS TO COLLECT TAXES FROM BENGAL, BIHAR AND ORISSA
One-third of the population was wiped out from Bengal beause
a terrible famine occurred there
a civil war broke out
an epidemic broke out
none of the above
The Mahalwari System was devised by
Charles Cornwallis
Robert Clive
Holt Mackenzie
James Mill
The ryots were
cultivators
zamindars
traders
money lenders
The Indigo Commission was set up to enquire into the system of indigo production. Whom did the commission hold guilty?
The ryots
The government
The planters
Both ryots and government
After the indigo production collapsed in Bengal, the planters shifted their operation to
Gujarat
Bihar
Orissa
Rajasthan
When the British came to India___________were self-sufficient units.
Cities
Villages
towns
districts
_______was the main source of income for the British
Land Revenue
Mining
Horticulture
Dairy farming
This system of revenue collection was introduced by Lord Cornwallis
Mahalwari system
Dahsala
Zamindari System
Ryotwari System
This was another crop which the peasants had to sow along with indigo
cotton
jute
rice
None of the above
Land, under British rule, became a ________commodity.
saleable
cheap
reusable
useless
After the Battle of Buxar, the English East India Company got the right to collect revenue of Which provinces?
Bengal, Madras and Bombay
Bengal, Bihar, Orissa
Bengal, Rajasthan, Punjab
Bengal, Mysore, Hyderabad
Who gave the rights to collect revenue from the highest bidder?
Governor General Warren Hastings
Lord Cornwallis
Thomas Munro
Lord Wellesley
Permanent settlement is also known as ________.
Ryotwari system
Zamindari system
Mahalwari System
Agrarian System
When was Zamindari Scheme introduced ?
1973
1893
1793
1693
Who introduced Zamindari System of Land settlement?
Lord Wellesly
Lord Warren Hastings
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Dalhousie
Land was commonly owned by a group of villages called______.
Palaces
Zamindars
Ryots
Mahals
Mahalwari system was introduced in
1822
1854
1830
1825
When company got the Diwani of Bengal, the Governor General of the Presidency was?
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Mount Batten
Robert Clive
James Mill
________________was Madras Governor in 1819
Thomas Munro
Franklin
Jacob Smith
Holt Mackenzie
The company introduced ____________in 1793.
Judiciary Changes
Permanent settlement
administrative reforms
agriculture reforms
Who wrote Neel Darpan in 1860?
Deendayal Mitra
Digambar Biswas
Bishnu Biswas
Dinabandhu Mitra
If Zamindars didnt pay revenue, then British
used to jail them
seize their goods
auction their land
punish them
Morris cotton print was invented by
William Morris
Robert Morris
John Morris
Morris will
