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11
Which of the following British official associated with the local self-government?
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
Lord Ripon is known to have granted the Indians first taste of freedom by introducing the Local Self Government in 1882. His scheme of local self government developed the Municipal institutions which had been growing up in the country ever since India was occupied by the British Crown.
12
Year of the Battle of Wandiwash is __________
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
Battle of Wandiwash, (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history of India, a confrontation between the French, under the comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. It was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle in southern India during the Seven Years War (1756–63).
13
The Charter for the establishment of the East India Company was granted by
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
Charter granted to the East India Company. Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a formal charter to the London merchants trading to the East Indies, hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade in what is now Indonesia.
14
By the Act of 1773, Parliament granted a loan of __________ to the East India Company
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
By the Act of 1773, Parliament granted a loan of Rs. 400,000 to the East India Company.
15
Assertion (A): In some places artisans and craftsmen participated in the Revolt of 1857.
Reason (R): The British policy of 'one-way' free trade destroyed village industries and handicrafts in India
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
Artisans and craftsmen were ruined by the large-scale influx of cheap British.
16
On imprisonment in 1908 by the British, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was in
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was imprisoned in 1908 to Mandalay for six years. Tilak criticise the Britishers in his newspaper, under a article name 'Bharat ki Durdasha' and this became the reason for his imprisonment.
17
Madras was returned by the French to the British in 1748 by the Treaty of
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
Madras was returned by the French to the British in 1748 by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
18
Which of the following counterpart of British in the Treaty of Salbai?
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
The Treaty of Salbai was signed on 17 May 1782, by representatives of the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company after long negotiations to settle the outcome of the First Anglo-Maratha War. David Anderson concluded the Treaty of Salbai on behalf of the East India Company.
19
The master stroke of Lord Wellesley to establish British paramountcy in India was
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
The master stroke of Lord Wellesley to establish British paramountcy in India was Subsidiary Alliance.
20
In what way did the early nationalists undermine the moral foundations of the British rule with great success?
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
The very conditions of British rule helped the growth of national sentiment. Roy was the first Indian leader to start an agitation for political reforms in India. There is a moral evil which, if anything, is even greater.