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51
The Company lost all its administrative powers__________
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
British Parliament brought the Government of India Act, 1858, which made the following changes:
i. Transferred powers from the East India Company to the Crown.
ii. A member of British Parliament was made secretary of state of India to exercise powers on behalf of the Crown and was responsible to the British Parliament.
iii. The Governor General for India was provided with an Executive Council, whose decision he was empowered to override.
52
The momentous decision to transfer the capital from Calcutta to Delhi, to annul the partition of Bengal and to abolish Indian indentured labour were taken during the Viceroyalty of Lord
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option A
Solution:
At that time, Lord Hardinge was the Governor General of the British held territories in India, and he was the one that shifted the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi.
53
Till the end of the 17th Century the growth of the executive and legislative powers of the East india Company depended on
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
Till the end of the 17th Century the growth of the executive and legislative powers of the East India Company depended on Crown.
54
In November 1781, Sir Eyre Coote defeated __________ at Porto Nova
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
The Battle of Porto Novo was fought on 1 July 1781 between forces of the Kingdom of Mysore and British East India Company in the place called Porto Novo (now known as Parangipettai) on the Indian subcontinent, during the Second Anglo-Mysore War. The British force, numbering more than 8,000 under the command of Sir Eyre Coote defeated a force estimated at 40,000 under the command of Hyder Ali.
55
The English East Company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of __________ in 1612
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
The naval Battle of Swally, also known as Battle of Suvali, took place on 29–30 November 1612 off the coast of Suvali (anglicised to Swally) a village near the Surat city (now in Gujarat, India) and was a victory for four English East India Company galleons over four Portuguese galleons and 26 barks (rowing vessels with no armament).
56
The first Indian to be elected as a member of the British House of Commons was
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British house of commons from the Finsbury Central Constituency in the elections of 1892 by a narrow margin of 3 votes by defeating Fredrick Thomas Penton. Being a subject of the British crown (Being a citizen of British India) he was allowed to take part in the election.
57
The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was Womesh Chandra Banerjee.
58
The first Bengali Drama, written to highlight the brutality of the British indigo planters, was
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
Nil Darpan (The Indigo Mirror) is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859. The play was published in Dhaka in 1860, under a pseudonym of the author. The play was essential to Nil Vidroha, better known as the Indigo Revolt of February–March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to sow indigo in their fields to protest against exploitative farming under the British Raj.
59
The Treaty of Lahore was signed between the Sikhs and the British in India in the year
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
The Treaty of Lahore was signed on 9 March 1846 after the First Sikh War. After the defeat of the Sikhs at the Battle of Sobraon the British were able to march into Lahore without any further battles. After the British reached the city of Lahore the treaty was signed.
60
The privileges of free trade granted to the English East India Company were confirmed in 1717 by Emperor
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
Emperor Farrukhsiyar issued the British East India Company such a farman in 1717. It allowed the Company to live and trade for free in Mughal India except for an annual payment. They were also given the right to issue dastak or trade permits to transfer goods, which the officials largely used for their own gains.