Q. Under the dual government in Bengal, the administration was carried on by (a) The East India Company and the British government. (b) The English Company and the Mughal emperor of India. (c) The British government and the Indian government (d) The East India Company and the Nawab of ...

Q. What was the worst part of the permanent settlement of Bengal? (a) Disintegration of the village communities (b) Creation of absentee landlords (c) Sub-infatuation of estates and holdings (d) Subjection of the cultivator to untold misery Ans: (d) Subjection of the cultivator to ...

Q. The following are connected with the First Anglo- Maratha War 1779-82: 1. Convention of Wadgaon 2. Treaty of Purandar 3. Treaty of Surat 4. Treaty of Salbai Their arrangement in the correct chronological order is (a) 3-2-1-4 (b) 2-1-3-4 (c) 4-2-1-3 (d) 1-4-3-2 Ans: ...

Q. What is the correct sequence of the following events? 1. Third Maratha war 2. Third Battle of Panipat 3. Third Mysore War 4. Third Burmese War  (a) 3-4-2-1 (b) 2-1-3-4 (c) 2-4-3-1 (d) 3-1-2-4 Ans: (b) 2-1-3-4

Q. During whose Peshwaship was the second and third Anglo-Maratha fought resulting in the abolition of the Peshawaship by the English? (a) Narayan Rao (b) Raghunath Rao (c) Madhav Rao I (d) Baji Rao II Ans: (d) Baji Rao II Explanation: The correct answer is (d) Baji Rao II. ...

Q. What was the most important reason for the First Anglo- Sikh War (1845-46)? (a) The attempts of the English Company to interfere with the internal matters of the Lahore state (b) The agreement entered into the Dogra Chief, Gulab Singh, by the English to sell Kashmir to the former (c) ...

Q. Indicate the importance of the treaty of Amritsar (1809) signed between Ranjit Singh and the English? (a) It marked the beginning of an era of peace and prosperity in the Punjab (b) It helped Ranjit Singh in realising his ambition of conquering Multan, Kashmir, Ladakh and Peshawar (c) ...

Q. Give the location of the decisive battle of the second Anglo- Sikh war? (a) Buddewal (b) Chilianwala (c) Ramnagar (d) Gujarat Ans: (d) Gujarat

Q. Between 1765 and 1800 the Sikhs brought the whole of Punjab and Jammu under their control. At that time they were organised into: (a) Six misls (b) Ten misls (c) Twelve misls (d) Sixteen misls Ans: (c) Twelve misls Explanation:  The correct answer is (c) Twelve misls. ...

Q. Tipu Sultan was a man of complex character. He was an innovator, which of the following was not one of his innovations? (a) A new calendar  (b) A new method of survey and settlement (c) A new system of coinage (d) New scales of weights and measures Ans: (b) A new method of ...

Q. Tipu Sultan was defeated and killed in the Fourth Anglo- Mysore War (1799). Who of the following did not give a share in Tipu’s territories? (a) The Marathas (b) The English (c) The Nizam (d) The Hindu dynasty of Mysore Ans: (a) The Marathas

Q. An Indian ruler of the 18th century who planted “the Tree of liberty” at his capital, enrolled himself as a member of the Jacobin club of France and loved himself to be called ‘Citizen’, was (a) Mir Jafar (b) Tipu Sultan (c) Haider Ali (d) Banda Bahadur Ans: (b) Tipu Sultan ...