Indian History MCQ Set-15

British India MCQ for SSC, UPSC , NDA, State PSC, Railway recruitment examinations, Police recruitment examinations and related government job recruitments examinations by the state governments and the union government of India.

Q.1 Who among the following was the first Governor-General of Bengal?

A. Warren Hastings

B. William Bentinck

C. Lord Dalhousie

D. None of these

Answer: A. Warren Hastings

Note: Warren Hastings, an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first de facto Governor-General of Bengal from 20th October, 1773 to 8th February, 1785.

Q.2 Who among the following was the official first Governor-General of India?

A. Warren Hastings

B. Lord William Bentinck

C. Lord Dalhousie

D. Lord Canning

Answer: B. Lord William Bentinck

Note: Lord William Bentinck served as the first Governor-General of Indian from 4th July, 1828 to 20th March, 1835.

Q.3 Which among the following is CORRECT about the India’s first train?

I. It was built to transport granite for road building

II. The name of the first train was “Red Hill Railway”

III. It ran from Red Hill to Chitadripet bridge of Chennai in 1837

IV. It ran from Bombay to Thane

A. Only

B. Only II

C. I, II & III

D. I, II & IV

Answer: C. I, II & III

Q.4 The first passenger train of India ran in which of the following year?

A. 1837

B. 1839

C. 1845

D. 1853

Answer: D. 1853

Note: India’s first passenger train, operated by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway and hauled by three steam locomotives (Sahib, Sindh and Sultan), ran for 34 km with 400 people in 14 carriages on 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge track between Bori Bunder, Bombay and Thane on 16 April 1853.

Q.5 Who among the following is the longest serving Viceroy and Governor General of India?

A. Lord Dalhousie

B. Victor Alexander John Hope

C. Lord Mountbatten

D. Lord Irwin

Answer: B. Victor Alexander John Hope

Note: Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow was the longest serving Viceroy and Governor-General of India. Alexander John Hope served as the viceroy of India from 18th April, 1936 to 1st October, 1943. Whereas, Lord Dalhousie is the longest serving Governor-General of India, serving from 12th January, 1848 to 28th February, 1856. The post of Governor-General as known as Viceroy & Governor-General from 1858 after the British Crown started to rule India and power was transferred from the East India Company.

Q.6 When the East India Company formed, Who among the following was the Mughal Emperor in India?

A. Akbar

B. Jahangir

C. Aurangzeb

D. Humayun

Answer: A. Akbar

Note: East India Company was formed on 31st December, 1600 by John Watts and George White.

Q.7 East India Company was involved trafficking of which of the following drug?

A. Cannabis

B. Opium

C. Narcotic Analgesics

D. None of these

Answer: B. Opium

Note: East India Company’s primary business were international trade of good & services and drug trafficking(mainly opium). In the 18th centaury, Britain had huge trade deficit with China. Therefore, East India Company started production of opium in Bengal and opium was sold in Calcutta on condition that it be sent to China as opium trade was illegal in China.

Q.8 British India Society was formed in which of the following year?

A. 1839

B. 1843

C. 1853

D. 1856

Answer: A. 1839

Note: William Adam, after visiting Raja Ram Mohan Roy in India, returned to England, and formed the Society in 1839 with George Thompson, William Ednis, and Major General Briggs. The society was concerned about ethical practice in India and a branch of the society was created in Bengal in 1843.

Q.9 Which of the following treaty brought the first Mysore war of British and Hyder Ali to end?

A. Treaty of Mysore

B. Treaty of Pondicherry

C. Treaty of Madras

D. None of these

Answer: C. Treaty of Madras

Note: In 1767 Mysore was a powerful state under Hyder Ali and in 1769, the first Anglo-Mysore war was fought in which Haider Ali defeated the British and Treaty of Madras was signed between them.

Q.10 Which of the following  act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to overhaul the management of the East India Company’s rule in India for the first time?

A. Regulation Act, 1773

B. Pitt’s India Act, 1774

C. Charter Act, 1793

D. None of these

Answer: A. Regulation Act, 1773

Note: By 1773, the East India Company was in dire financial straits. Regulation Act, 1773 did not prove to be a long-term solution to concerns over the company’s affairs; Pitt’s India Act was therefore subsequently enacted in 1784 as a more radical reform.

 

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