Q. Which Factory Act limited the working hours to 11 for women and 7 for children below the age of 14? (a) Factories Act of 1881 (b) Factories Act of 1891 (c) Factories Act of 1911 (d) Factories Act of 1922 Ans: (b) Factories Act of 1891 Explanation: The correct answer is (b) ...

Q. The ideological origin of the Mahalwari System was tied up with (a) the failure of Permanent settlement to effectively implement land revenue collection (b) an increasing crystallization of the British idea of the Indian ‘village republic’ (c) Utilitarianism becoming a powerful ideal ...

Q. The notable contributions for ensuring a wider spread of education by the Hunter Commission were as follows: (a) Support for instructions in the vernaculars for primary education (b) Emphasis upon education of Muslims and Women (c) Importance to private schools (d) all the above ...

Q. The Hunter Commission set up in 1882 consolidated the direction of colonial policy for a school, which had been established by Wood’s Despatch. It consisted of: (a) Fixed Curriculum (b) Centralized Exam or Centralization of the School system (c) Trained teachers (d) all the above ...

Q. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1) authored the Education Minute (2) formulated the Thuggee Act (1836) (3) drafted the Indian Penal Code (4) helped draft the Great Reform Bill of Britain Choose the code for correct statements: (a) Only 1 (b) 1 and 3 (c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) all the above ...

Q. Who said “The Sanskrit language whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure: more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than ...

Q. There was a change in the colonial policy of governance in the 1820s. It was believed that human nature could be transformed by 1. Education 2. Free trade 3. Execution of Laws Choose the code for correct statements: (a) only 1 (b) 1 & 3 (c) only 3 (d) 1, 2, & 3 ...

Q. Battle of Plassey (23rd June 1757) was caused by (a) Inept policies of Siraj-ud-daulah (b) Invasion of Marathas (c) Conspiracy of Jagat Seth, Mir Jafar against the Nawab (d) Imperialist ambition of British merchants to intervene in Bengal polity. Ans: (d) Imperialist ambition of ...

Q. Whose pension was stopped by Lord Dalhousie? (a) Nana Sahib (b) Appa Sahib (c) Gangadhar Rao  (d) Tantia Tope Ans: (a) Nana Sahib Explanation: The correct answer is (a) Nana Sahib. Lord Dalhousie stopped the pension of Nana Sahib as part of his implementation of the ...

Q. Lord Dalhousie applied the Doctrine of Lapse on many Indian states and this has been seen as one of the important cause of the Mutiny of 1857. One of the important States annexed according to this Doctrine was (a) Oudh (b) Pegu (c) Berar (d) Nagpur Ans: (d) Nagpur

Q. Identify the state that was annexed by Lord Dalhousie under the Doctrine of Lapse. (a) Mysore (b) Awadh (c) Punjab (d) Jhansi Ans: (d) Jhansi

Q. Tipu Sultan posed a greater threat to the Company according to Thomas Munro than the Marathas because (a) he was involved in centralizing his State structure (b) he was regulating State revenues (c) he was interested in the new modes of European warfare (d) all the above Ans: (d) ...