British Rule In India MCQ Question and Answer | History MCQ Question

Lord Dalhousie introduced the Doctrine of Lapse i.e any princely state under the direct influence of East India Company, as a vassal state under the British Subsidiary System would automatically be annexed if the ruler was either "manifestly in competent or died without a male heir. The series of state annexed - Satara, Jaipur, Sambhal pur, Jhansi (1854).

Englishmen’s easy success in trade and in establishing independent and fortified settlements at Madras and at Bombay, and the preoccupation of Aurangzeb with the anti-Maratha campaigns led the English to abandon the role of humble petitioners.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy convinced the British in 1829 to outlaw Sati.

The act was proposed by Lord Lytton, then Viceroy of India, and was unanimously passed by the Viceroy's Council on 14 March 1878.

Mahatma Gandhi gave up the title of Kaiser-i-Hind and returned all the war medals awarded to him by the British for his war services during the First World War as a symbolic gesture of protest and solidarity with the Khilafat Movement. The Khilafat Movement was initiated to support the cause of the Ottoman Caliphate (Caliphate of Turkey) after the end of World War I.

Option A: Mahatma Gandhi's decision to return the war medals was not directly related to the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy, which occurred in 1919.
Option B: The Non-Cooperation Movement, initiated by Gandhi, aimed at boycotting British institutions, including educational institutions and government services. It began in 1920, but the return of war medals was specifically related to the Khilafat Movement.
Option D: The Champaran Satyagraha was one of Gandhi's early movements in India against the exploitation of indigo farmers in Champaran, Bihar. The return of war medals was not associated with this movement.

Therefore, the correct option is Option C: in support of the Khilafat demand when the Central Khilafat Committee organised a general all-India hartal on August 1, 1920, as Mahatma Gandhi returned the war medals and gave up the title of Kaiser-i-Hind as part of his support for the Khilafat Movement.

In Bengal, the East India Company's headquarters were located at Fort William. Fort William was a fortified British outpost built in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to establish and maintain control over the British East India Company's trading activities in the region.

Fort William was strategically situated near the Hooghly River and served as a vital center for the administration, trade, and governance of the British East India Company's interests in Bengal. The headquarters played a crucial role in shaping the early colonial history of British presence in India.

Option A: Fort St George is located in Chennai (formerly Madras) and served as the headquarters of the British East India Company's activities in the Madras Presidency.
Option C: Fort St David is located in Cuddalore and was another British outpost in Tamil Nadu.
Option D: Shantiniketan, founded by Rabindranath Tagore, is not related to the East India Company's headquarters.

Therefore, the correct option is Option B: Fort William, which served as the East India Company's headquarters in Bengal.

Sadr-Di-wani-Adalat during Mughal and British rule in India was a High Court of Civil and Revenue matters.The Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat was the Supreme Court of Revenue in British India established at Calcutta by Warren Hastings in 1772. It was reformed in 1780 and again in 1793 by the British Parliament.

British established a trading post in 1612 at Gujarat.

After the commencement of the government of India Act-1858, Viceroy of the state was to British Governor-General of India.

Naoroji Dadabhai Is the author of books such as Poverty and Un-British Rule In India.