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Q141

Which Government of India Act/Charter Act generated the post of Governor-General of India?

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Q142

The title of 'Viceroy' was added to the centre of the Governor-General of India for the first time in

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Q143

The Governor of the East India Company was

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Q144

The first constitutional measure introduced by the British in India which worked till the framing of the Indian Constitution was

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Q145

Which of the following Act, ensured the establishment of the supreme court in India?

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Q146

Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance against the East India Company dominated in __________

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Q147

Assertion (A): The announcement of the Simon Commission aroused widespread Indian resentment.
Reason (R): The British Government in defiance of the opinion of all parties in India had deliberately decided to appoint an all British Commission

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Q148

The Treaty of Mangalore was in the year __________

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Q149

During their rule the British persuaded or forced cultivators in Assam to grow__________

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Q150

On which day had premier Attlee conceded that the British would quit India by June, 1948?

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Q151

Arrange the following in chronological order:
I. Viceroy Lytton
II. Viceroy Mayo
III. Viceroy Lansdowne
IV. Viceroy Linlithgow

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Q152

The Hindu Widows Remarriage Act __________

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Q153

I. Bengal Nawab was captured and put to death by Mir Jafar in the Battle of Plassey, 1757.
II. After Mir Qasim, Nizam-ud-daula was made the Nawab of Bengal.
III. The same person acted as the deputy Dewan on behalf of the East Indian Company and as Deputy Subedar on behalf of the Bengal Nawab.
IV. In 1767, British Government ordered the East India Company to pay £400,000 per year.

Which of these statement(s) is/are correct related to the Bengal Politics during the 18th century?

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Q154

What did the Hunter Commission appointed by the Viceroy probe?

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Q155

The British colonial policies in India proved most ruinous for Indian

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Q156

The first Indian Governor of a British Province (Bihar) in India was

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Q157

Which of the following is not the provision of The Act of 1892?

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Q158

August Offer 1940 was made by the Viceroy

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Q159

The British introduced the railways in India in order to

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Q160

Consider the following according to the correct chronological order of the Governors-General during British India
I. Wellesley
II. Marquess of Hastings
III. Amherst
IV. Bentinck

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