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1.Who introduced Blue water policy in india
(a)English
(b)Dutch
(c)Dans
(d)Portuguese
Answer: (d)
2.Which among the following was NOT annexed into the East India territories via the Doctrine of Lapse?
(a) Satara
(b)Nagpur
(c) Jhansi
(d) Mysore
Answer:( d)
3. Which of the following did not participate in the alliance forged by Mir Qasim after he was defeated by the English in 1763?
(a)Mir Qasim
(b)Shah Alam the Mughal Emperor
(c) Shuja-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Avadh
(d) The Nizam of Hyderabad
Answer:( d)
4.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
(c) Nagpur
(d) Satara
Answer: (a)
5.Who among the following Europeans were the last to come to pre-independence India as traders?
(a) Dutch
(b) English
(c) French
(d) Portugese
Answer: (c)
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6. Who laid the foundation of Portugese power in India?
(a) Vasco da Gama
(b) Bartholomew Dias
(c) Alfonso denies Albuquerque
(d) None of these
Answer: (c)
7.Goa was captured by the Portugese in?
(a) AD 1470
(b) AD 1510
(c) AD 1570
(d) AD 1610
Answer: (b)
8.The final defeat of the Maratha confederacy came during the time of?
(a) Wellesley
(b) Minto
(c) Hastings
(d) Cornwallis
Answer: (c)
9.In, Bengal the headquarters of East India Company were located at?
(a) Fort St David
(b) Fort William
(c) Fort St George
(d) None of the above
Answer: (b)
10. In 1757, Siraj-ud-Daula was defeated by?
(a) Canning
(b) Hastings
(c) Clive
(d) Cornwallis
Answer: (c)
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11.Which Indian King requested Napoleon for help to drive the British from India?
(a) Rani of Jhansi
(b) Jai Singh
(c) Shivaji
(d) Tipu Sultan
Answer: (d)
12. Who succeeded Siraj-ud-Daula a Nawab of Bengal after the Battle of Palassey?
(a) Aliwardi Khan
(b) Mir Jafar
(c) Mir Qasim
(d) Shuja-ud-Daulah
Answer: (b)
13.The land of Bombay was given to the English Prince Charles as Dowry by the
(a) Danish
(b) Portugese
(c) Dutch.
(d) English
Answer: (b)
14.When the East India Company came into existence, England was ruled by the
(a) Hanovarians
(b) Stuart
(c) Normans
(d) Tudors
Answer: (c)
15. Which of the following statements about Hyder Ali is correct?
(a) He won the first Anglo-Mysore war
(b) He was defeated at Porto Nova in 1781 by Lord Warren Hastings.
(c) He was a man of great determination
(d) He made a coalition with Nizam and Marathas against the English in the Second Anglo-Mysore war
Answer: (d)
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16.The Indian textiles which were used by the Dutch in the African slave trade were
(a) plain white textiles
(b) plain dyed textiles
(c) chintz and embroidered textiles
(d) silk piece goods
Answer: (b)
17.English East India Company’s first Presidency in India was?
(a) Madras
(b) Masulipatnam
(c) Surat
(d) Hooghly
Answer: (c)
18.The first Anglo-Burmese War concluded by a treaty. Which one among the following is that?
(a) Treaty of Burma
(b) Treaty of Tamu
(c) Treaty of Bhamo
(d) Treaty of Yandaboo.
Answer: (d)
19. Which one among the following was fought earliest?
(a) Battle of Ambur
(b) Battle of Buxar
(c) Battle of Palassey
(d) Battle of Wandiwash
Answer: (a)
20. Who among the following British officials was sent to Lahore to negotiate the Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh?
(a) Major Broodfoot
(b) Charles T Metcalfe
(c) John Lawrence
(d) Lord Mc Cartney
Answer: (b)
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21.Who among the following was the first Muslim Millitary Commander who annexed Bihar and Bengal by overthrowing the Sena dynasty?
(a) Mahmud Gawan
(b) Bakhtiyar Khilji
(c) Adil Shahi
(d) Shams-ud-din
Answer: (b)
22.The English Governor in India who was expelled by Aurangzeb was?
(a) Aungier
(b) Sir John Child
(c) Sir John Gayer
(d) Sir Nicholas Waite
Answer: (b)
23.Who was Francisco Denies Almeida?
(a) Dutch Viceroy in India
(b) Portugese Viceroy in India
(c) French Viceroy in India
(d) English Viceroy in India
Answer: (b)
24.The main English exports from Bengal were
(a) saltpetre
(b) silk and cotton goods
(c) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
(d) Indigo
Answer: (d)
25.Job Charnock founded Calcutta at the site of
(a) Sutanati
(b) Kalikata
(c) Govind Pur
(d) All of these
Answer: (d)
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26. Which one among the following was the result of the first Anglo-Maratha War of 1775-82?
(a) The British won the war
(b) The Marathas won the war
(c) These was no victory for either side
(d) It helped Hyder Ali to gather strength because the British and the Marathas were engaged in a mutual war
Answer: (c)
27.With which one among the following mountain tribes did the British first come into contact with after the grant of Diwani in the year 1765?
(a) Garos
(b) Khasis
(c) Kukis
(d) Tipperahs
Answer: (b)
28.The state which granted the Golden Farman to the Dutch to trade freely on payment of a more 500 pagodas a year as duty was
(a) Chandragiri
(b) Golconda
(c) Gingee
(d) Ikkeri
Answer: (b)
29.Which British Military officer defeated Tipu Sultan in India, Napoleon Bonaparte in Europe and eventually became the Duke of Wellington?
(a) Arthur Wellesley
(b) Robert Clive
(c) Warren Hastings
(d) Richard Wellesley
Answer: (d)
30.The founder of Madras was
(a) Robert Clive
(b) Francis Day
(c) Gabriel Boughton
(d) Streysham Master
Answer: (b)
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31.Who among the following was not a party to the coalition that fought against the English in the Battle of Buxar?
(a) Mir Kasim
(b) Mir Jafar
(c) Shuja-ud-Daula
(d) Shah Alam
Answer: (b)
32.Who among the following was an ally of Mir Qasim in the Battle of Buxar?
(a) Haider Ali
(b) Maharaja Ranjit singh
(c) Malhar Rao Holkar
(d) Shah Alam II
Answer: (d)
33.The French got the site of Pondicherry from
(a) the Adilshahi Sultan of Bijapur
(b) the ruler of Chandranagar
(c) Shayista Khan, the Mughal viceroy in the Deccan
(d) The Qutub Shahi Sultan of Golconda
Answer: (c)
34.The Treaty of Bassien was signed with the British by Peshwa
(a) Madhav Rao
(b) Balaji Baji Rao
(c) Baji Rao I
(d) Baji Rao II
Answer: (d)
35. In India, among the following locations, the Dutch established their earliest factory at
(a) Surat
(b) Pulicat
(c) Cochin
(d) Cassimbazzar
Answer: (b)
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36.Between whom was the Treaty of Purandhar in 1776 made?
(a) The English and The Nizam of Hyderabad
(b) The Marathas and the Portugese
(c) The Marathas and The English
(d) The English and The Sultan of Mysore
Answer: (c)
37. The South Indian ruler who introduced sericulture as an agro-industry in his Kingdom was
(a) Hyder Ali
(b) Krishnadevaraya
(c) Rajaraja II
(d) Tipu Sultan
Answer: (d)
38. The French for the trade of the East India Company was founded in India by
(a) Colbert
(b) Francois Martin
(c) Francois Caron
(d) Da la Haye
Answer: (a)
39. In the year 1613, where was the English East India Company given permission to set up a factory (trading post)?
(a) Bangalore
(b) Madras
(c) Masulipatnam
(d) Surat
Answer: (d)
40. Job Charnock founded Calcutta at the site of
(a) Sutanati
(b) Kalikata
(c) Govind Pur
(d) All of these
Answer:( d)
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41.Who among the following introduced Tobacco, Cashewnut and Pineapples in India
(a)Portuguese
(b)English
(c)Dutch
(d)French
Answer: (a)
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