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Question 1 of 10
1. Question
2 points
Under which one of the following Acts, the trade between India and Europe passed from the hands of the Company to private traders?
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The Charter Act of 1813 ended the monopoly of the East Indian Company however the company’s monopoly in the tea trade was kept intact. Trade for other commodities except Tea was made open to all British subjects. It was only in 1833 the company trade for Tea also was abolished.
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Question 2 of 10
2. Question
2 points
Consider the following provisions:
1. The legislative and executive functions of the Governor General’s Council were separated for the first time.
2. It established the Indian (Central) Legislative Council.
3. It gave the power to the Company to administer in trust of her Majesty.
4. The act made the Law Member a full-time member in the Governor General’s Executive Council.
These provisions were laid down in which one of the following acts during the British Period?
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Charter Act of 1853
It separated, for the first time, the legislative and executive functions of the Governor- General’s council.
In other words, it established a separate Governor-General’s legislative council which came to be known as the Indian (Central) Legislative Council.
It extended the Company’s rule and allowed it to retain the possession of Indian territories on trust for the British Crown.
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Question 3 of 10
3. Question
2 points
Consider the following statements about the economy of Eighteenth-century India:
1. The trade linkages between India and East and South-east Asia were re-directed towards West Asia under the directions of British commerce.
2. India’s overseas trade increased phenomenally in this period compared to the previous century.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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The Indian Ocean was part of an elaborate commercial network with the Atlantic and the Pacific, and it was the increasing Europeanisation of early modern trade that set the tone and the future of India’s commercial life in the eighteenth century.
Indian commercial life and merchant capital was deployed in the service of wider networks of connections from Africa, South-east Asia and Europe.
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Question 4 of 10
4. Question
2 points
Why did the Europeans had shown very much interest to find the new navigational routes to SouthAsia and South-East Asia in the 15th century?
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Ottoman Empire Captured Constantinople in 1453 which led to the distortion of the trade route through land and Mediterranean Sea.
Trade through Land route become costlier due to heavy tax, thief and frequent war.
South and Southeast Asia was important for spices, Europeans need Spies for their antibiotic properties and to preserve food.
So Search for sea route become inevitable during the 15th century.
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Question 5 of 10
5. Question
2 points
Which of the following are the economic effects of colonial rule in India?
1. De-industrialization
2. Famines
3. Commercialization of Agriculture
4. Narrowness in the levels of differentiation among the peasantry
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
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During the British period, there has been a broadening in levels of differentiation among the peasantry.
Due to the rice of Bourgeoisie peasants were forced into poverty.
The New Land revenue system and commercialization of agriculture broadened the differences among peasants.
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Question 6 of 10
6. Question
2 points
Which one of the following statements is not correct about the “Regulating Act of 1773”?
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The Pitt’s India Act of 1784 gave the Governor-General veto power over the Executive council.
This was made to rectify the defects in the previously made Regulating Act of 1773 which made Governor-General powerless without any veto power hampering administration effectively.
Question 7 of 10
7. Question
2 points
With reference to the advent of Dutch in India, consider the following statements:
1. The Dutch founded their first factory in Surat.
2. The Dutch were not much interested in empire-building in India.
3. The commodities the Dutch traded in were Silk, Cotton, Indigo, Rice and Opium.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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The first factory founded by Dutch in India was at Masulipatnam in 1605.
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Question 8 of 10
8. Question
2 points
Arrange the following battles in the correct chronological order based on their occurrence.
1. Battle of Karnal
2. Battle of Plassey
3. Battle of Buxar
4. Third Battle of Panipat
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
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The Battle of Karnal (24 February 1739)
Battle of Plassey (23 June 1757)
Battle of Buxar (23 October 1764)
Third Battle of Panipat (14 January 1761)
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Question 9 of 10
9. Question
2 points
Consider the following statements:
1. By 1857, the East India Company came to exercise direct rule over about 80 per cent of the Indian subcontinent.
2. Awadh was the last kingdom annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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By 1857 the East India Company came to exercise most of the part of the Indian subcontinent excepts territory like Mysore, Hyderabad, and some other territory which was later called princely states comprising almost 40 % of the territory.
Awadh was annexed under the doctrine of Good governance. Since the treaty of Allahabad, Awadh was friendly with the British but the ruler of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah was dispossessed on the ground of intolerable misgovernment.
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Question 10 of 10
10. Question
2 points
Consider the following statements:
1. By 1857, the East India Company came to exercise direct rule over about 80 per cent of the Indian subcontinent.
2. Awadh was the last kingdom annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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By 1857 the East India Company came to exercise most of the part of the Indian subcontinent excepts territory like Mysore, Hyderabad, and some other territory which was later called princely states comprising almost 40 % of the territory.
Awadh was annexed under the doctrine of Good governance. Since the treaty of Allahabad, Awadh was friendly with the British but the ruler of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah was dispossessed on the ground of intolerable misgovernment. Awadh was finally annexed in 1856 and Wajid Ali Shah was compelled to stay in Calcutta
