Mughal Empire MCQ
- When the first governor-general of British India was appointed?
- 1770
- 1772
- 1774
- None
- Who was the first governor-general of British India?
- John Macpherson
- John Shore
- Alured Clarke
- Warren Hastings
- The British Parliament passed William Pitt’s India Act in ____________ A.D, regulating the powers of the governor-general.
- 1784
- 1787
- 1789
- None
- Who was the third governor-general of British India?
- John Macpherson
- Alured Clarke
- Lord Charles Cornwallis
- None
- When Lord Charles Cornwallis was appointed governor-general of India?
- 1784
- 1785
- 1787
- None
- In 1793 A.D Permanent Settlement was introduced by ___________, granting proprietary rights to Zamindars (landlords).
- Lord Minto I
- Lord Cornwallis
- Lord Wellesley
- None
- In _________ A.D Lord Richard Colley Wellesley was appointed governor-general of India.
- 1793
- 1795
- 1798
- None
- When Tippu Sultan, the Muslim raja of Mysore was killed?
- 1799
- 1801
- 1805
- None
- Tippu Sultan was killed before the walls of:
- Srirangapatna
- Seringapatan
- Devanahalli
- None
- Tippu Sultan was killed in an encounter with __________ British Indian Army.
- Lord Wellesley’s
- Lord Hastings’s
- Sir George Barlow’s
- None
- Who was the 9th governor-general of British India?
- Sir George Barlow
- Lord Earl Minto
- John Adam
- None
- When Lord Earl Minto was appointed governor-general of India?
- 1805
- 1806
- 1807
- None
- In _________ A.D the British government in India signed the Treaty of Amritsar.
- 1809
- 1811
- 1814
- None
- In 1809 AD Treaty of Amritsar was signed with __________ of Punjab.
- Samanta-raja
- Chandra-raja II
- Vakpati-raja
- Raja Ranjit Singh
- Treaty of Amritsar was signed establishing the __________as the boundary between the Sikh state in the Punjab and the British Indian territories.
- Sahibi River
- Sutlej River
- Ravi River
- Chambal River
- In 1848 A.D ____________was appointed governor-general of India.
- Henry Hardinge
- Viscount Canning
- Lord John Dalhousie
- None
- In 1849 A.D The province of _________ was annexed by the British.
- Baluchistan
- Punjab
- Sindh
- None
- When the war of Independence against British broke out in Meerut?
- May 10, 1857
- May 15, 1857
- May 28, 1857
- None
- In ________ 1857 A.D Delhi, the seat of the Mughal empire in India, was captured by the British.
- July 03
- July 08
- July 11
- None
- On July 8, 1857 A.D Emperor ____________ was arrested and deported.
- Shah Jahan
- Aurangzeb
- Bahadur Shah II
- None
- On 14 September 1857 A.D__________, the governor-general of India, proclaimed the end of the war of Independence and celebrated their success.
- Robert Napier
- Lord Charles Canning
- William Denison
- None
- After the war of independence, The East India Company was liquidated and ____________assumed sovereignty over all territories controlled by the company.
- The monarch of Great Britain
- Crowned Republic
- Absolute monarch
- None
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