acts and Policies Test 3 (Modern History)

1.Indian Universities Commission was set up in which of the following years?

2.Which of the following Acts ended the monopoly of the East India Company over trade with India?

3.Which Committee among the following was formed in Bombay in March 1919?

4.In which year was the office of the first Accountant General established in India?

5.In which year did the British Government announce Morley-Minto Reforms in India?

6.Who among the following was a great advocate of English education in India?

7.In order to curb the East India Company traders’ unrestrained commercial activities and to bring about some order in territories under the Company control, the British Parliament enacted a series of laws among which the ______ stood first.

8.Which law was imposed in India during the command of General Dyer?

9.By which British statute were Indian representatives, for the first time, allocated seats for election in Indian Legislative Councils?

10.The capital of the British Indian Empire was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in:

11.In 1877, which of the following viceroys organised a durbar to acknowledge Queen Victoria as the Empress of India?

12.Whose proclamation of November 1, 1858 declared that thereafter India would be governed by and in the name of the British Monarch through a Secretary of State?

13.Which of the following Acts was enacted in British India in the year 1878?

14.Which of the following princely states was annexed by the British under the pretext of 'misgovernment of the Nawab'?

15.Which of the following statements is correct?

16.In which of the following years was the Cornwallis Code enacted?

17.In which of the following years was the Indian Independence Act passed by the British Parliament?

18.After the battle of ______ in 1757, the British achieved political power in India.

19.Which governor general introduced the policy of Subsidiary Alliance, under which the indian ruler agreed to keep British forces in his territory ?

20.Who was the Prime Minister of Britain/UK when the British Parliament passed an independence bill for India in July 1947?

21.Who among the following was NOT a minister of Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946 ?