The British Governor Generals and Viceroys Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Question 1: Who was the first Governor of Bengal ?

(a) Lord Clive
(b) Courtier
(c) Lord Amherst
(d) Lord Auckland

Solution: a

Question 2: Which one of the following mutiny took place during the reign of Lord Clive?

(a) White mutiny
(b) Sepoy mutiny
(c) Bengal mutiny
(d) Santhal mutiny

Solution: a

Question 3: In which year did dual government start by Lord Clive in Bengal?

(a) 1763
(b) 1764
(c) 1966
(d) 1765

Solution: d

Question 4: In which Government tenure, Diwani rights of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha had granted to East India Company by emporer Shah Alam? [UPPSC (Mains) 2004]

(a) Lord Clive
(b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Lord William Bentinck

Solution: a

Question 5: Who was the founder of British Empire in India ? [UK UDA/LDA (Pre) 2007]

(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Lord Amherst
(c) Lord Robert Clive
(d) Lord William Bentinck

Solution: c

Question 6: Who among the following has been called the ‘Heaven Born General’? [UPPS(Mains) 2009]

(a) Albuquerque
(b) Robert Clive
(c) Francois Dupleix
(d) Lord Cornwallis

Solution: b

Question 7: Who was the first Governor-General of Bengal? [SSC 2019]

(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Francois Dupleix
(d) Lord Cornwallis

Solution: a

Question 8: In which year was the Regulating Act passed? [BPSC 2015]

(a) 1757 AD
(b) 1765 AD
(c) 1773 AD
(d) 1793 AD

Solution: c

Question 9: Who succeeded Robert Clive to lead the East India Company? [APSC 2017]

(a) Lord Bentinck
(b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Lord Hastings
(d) All of the above

Solution: c

Question 10: At the time of establishment of Asiatic Society in Calcutta, who was the Governor-General of Bengal ? [UPPSC 2004]

(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b)Lord Warren Hastings
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Lord Bentinck

Solution: b

Question 11: The policy of ‘ Security Cell’ is related with [UPPSC (Pre) 2006]

(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Lawrence
(d) Lord Hastings

Solution: a

Question 12: Who among the following abolished ‘Dual Government’ system in Bengal ? [BPSC (Pre) 2005, 1996]

(a) Robert Clive
(b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Warren Hastings
(d) None of the above

Solution: c

Question 13: Which one of the following Governor-General was impeached by the British Parliament?

(a) Lord Curzon
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Lord Canning
(d) William Bentinck

Solution: b

Question 14: Consider the following statements:

I. Warren Hastings had established the Dual System of Government in Bengal in 1765.

II. He had established a Board of Revenue at Calcutta to supervise the collection of revenue.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Both I and II
(d) None of these

Solution: b

Question 15: Which o f the following was the first victim of Lord Dalhousie’s policy of ‘Doctrine of Lapse’? [UPPSC (Pre) 2016]

(a) Jhansi
(b) Satara
(c) Karauli
(d) Sambalpur

Solution: b

Question 16 : Who had merged Sikkim in India? [UPPSC 2020]

(a) Lord Hastings
(b) Lord William Bentinck
(c) Lord Dalhousie
(d) Lord Auckland

Solution: c

Question 17: Who established the Judicial organisation in India? [UPPSC (Pre) 1991]

(a) Lord Mayo
(b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Lord Attlee
(d) Lord Curzon

Solution: b

Question 18: Whoa among the following Governor-General created the covenanted Civil Service of India which later came to be known as the Indian Civil Service ? [IAS (Pre) 2010]

(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Wellesley
(c) Cornwallis
(d) William Bentinck

Solution: c

Question 19: The enforcement of the public service was done in [UPPSC (Mains) 2004]

(a) tenure of Bentinck
(b) tenure of Cornwallis
(c) tenure of Curzon
(d) tenure of Dalhousie

Solution : b

Question 20: Which Governor-General introduced the permanent land revenue system in India? [MPPSC (Pre) 2014]

(a) Lord John Shore
(b) Lord Clive
(c) Lord Cornwallis
(d) Lord Warren Hastings

Solution: c

Question 21: Who among the following Governor-Generals of Bengal was associated with third Anglo-Mysore war?

(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Sir John Shore
(d) Lord William Cavendish Bentinck

Solution: b

Question 22: By a regulation in 1793, the District Collector was deprived of his judicial powers and made the collecting agent only. What was the reason for such regulation? [IAS (Pre) 2010]

(a) Lord Cornwallis felt that the District Collector’s efficiency of revenue collection would enormously increase without the burden of other work.
(b) Lord Cornwallis felt that judicial power should compulsory be in the hands of Europeans while Indians can be given the job of revenue collection in the districts.
(c) Lord Cornwallis was alarmed at the extent of power concentrated in the District Collector and felt that such absolute power was undesirable in one person.
(d) The judicial work demanded a deep knowledge of India and a good training in law and Lord Cornwallis felt that District Collector should be only a revenue collector.

Solution: c

Question 23: The tomb of Lord Cornwallis is situated at [UPPSC (Mains) 2011]

(a) Ghazipur
(b) Ballia
(c) Varanasi
(d) Gorakhpur

Solution: a

Question 24: Which Governor-General is associated with Doctrine of Lapse? [SSC 2011]

(a) Lord Ripon
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Bentinck
(d) Lord Curzon

Solution: b

Question 25: Who introduced subsidiary alliance system in the administration to establish the British power over the Indian states? [ UPPSC (Mains) 2016]

(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Lord Wellesley
(c) Lord Cornwallis
(d) Lord Dalhousie

Solution: b

Question 26: The first Indian ruler who joined the subsidiary alliance was [IAS (Pre) 1994]

(a) The Nawab of Awadh
(b) The Nizam of Hyderabad
(c) Peshwa Baji Rao II
(d) The king of Travancore

Solution: a

Question 27: First Maratha Sardar to accept the subsidiary alliance of Lord Wellesley was [BPSC (Pre) 1996]

(a) Peshwa Baji Rao II
(b) Raghuji Bhosle
(c) Daulatrao Scindia
(d) None of the above

Solution: a

Question 28: The subsidiary alliance was not accepted by [UPPSC (Mains) 2004]

(a) The Nizam of Hyderabad
(b) The Holkar State of Indore
(c) The Rajput State of Jodhpur
(d) The Ruler of Mysore

Solution: b

Question 29: The main aim of East India Company to make subsidiary alliance in Rajput states was [ RAS/RTS (Pre) 1992]

(a) receiving military support against enemies
(b) protecting these states from Maratha Pindari Invasion
(c) to receive funds in the form of Khiraj
(d) to establish the sovereignty of the British

Solution: d

Question 30: Which one of the following statements does not apply to the system of subsidiary alliance introduced by the Lord Wellesley? [IAS (Pre) 2018]

(a) to maintain a large standing army at other’s expense
(b) to keep India safe from Napoleonic danger
(c) to secure a fixed income for the company
(d) to establish British paramountcy over the Indian states

Solution: c

Question 31: Which one among the following is not correct about the subsidiary alliance ?

(a) It was formulated by Wellesley.
(b) British army was posted in the subsidiary state.
(c) It did not recognise an adopted heir to a subsidiary state.
(d) A British resident was posted in the subsidiary state.

Solution: b

Question 32: Wellesley established the First William college at Calcutta because

(a) he was asked by the Board of Directors at London to do so.
(b) he wanted to revive interest in oriental learning in India.
(c) he wanted to provide William Carey and his associates with employment.
(d) he wanted to train British civilians for administrative purpose in India.

Solution: d

Question 33: Anglo-Nepal war took place during the reign of [UPPSC (Mains) 2010]

(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Lord Hastings
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Warren Hastings

Solution: d

Question 34: Third Anglo-Maratha war is related to [UP UDA/LDA (Pre) 2013]

(a) Sir John Shore
(b) Lord Wellesley
(c) Lord Hastings
(d) Lord Cornwallis

Solution: a

Question 35: Who among the following finally removed the Maratha Peshwa from his position, captured his territories and sent him off to distant place ? [CDS 2006]

(a) Wellesley
(b) Cornwallis
(c) Dalhousie
(d) Hstings

Solution: d

Question 36: By which one of the following Acts did the Governor-General of Bengal become the Governor-General of India?

(a) The Regulatory Act
(b) The Pitts India Act
(c) The Charter Act of 1793
(d) The Charter Act of 1833

Solution: d

Question 37 : The first Governor-General of India was appointed in [UKPSC 2007]

(a) 1774
(b) 1833
(c) 1858
(d) 1911

Solution: b

Question 38 : Who among the following was the first Governor-General of India? [CDS 2008]

(a) Lord Amherst
(b) Lord William Bentinck
(c) Sir Charles Metcalfe
(d) Robert Clive

Solution: b

Question 39 : Who called ‘Sati’ illegal? [BPSC 2018]

(a) Warren Hastings
(b) William Bentinck
(c) Cornwallis
(d) Curzon

Solution: b

Question 40 : In which year sati system was abolished by William Bentinck? [MPPSC (Pre) 2015]

(a) 1825 AD
(b) 1827 AD
(c) 1829 AD
(d) 1830 AD

Solution: c

Question 41 : Who was then Governor-General of British India, when ‘sati pratha’ became illegal and punishable? [SSC CGL 2020]

(a) Lord William Bentinck
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Lord Cornwallis

Solution: a

Question 42 : Who was the Governor-General during the annulment of ‘Sati’? [WBCS 2020]

(a) Lord Bentinck
(b) Lord Hastings
(c) Lord Dalhousie
(d) Lord Canning

Solution: a

Question 43 : On the basis of alleged maladministration which Governor General had taken the administration of Mysore state? [UP Lower Sub(Pre) 2004]

(a) Lord Wellesley
(b) Lord Hastings
(c) Lord William Bentinck
(d) Lord Hardinge

Solution: c

Question 44 : From the following Britishers, who is credited for removal or banned on newspapers? [CGPSC 2013]

(a) Lord William Bentinck
(b) Lord Metcalf
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) John George

Solution: b

Question 45 : Who among the following negotiated subordinate alliance of 1817-18 with Princely state of Rajputana? [RAS/RTS (Pre) 2018]

(a) David Ochterlony
(b) Charles Metcalf
(c) Arthur Wellesley
(d) John George

Solution: b

Question 46 : The conquest of Sindh by British was completed during the period of [UPPSC (Mains) 2012]

(a) Lord Ellenborough
(b) Lord Hardinge
(c) Lord Auckland
(d) Lord Amherst

Solution: a

Question 47: Who laid down the foundation of Modern Postal system?

(a) Ellenborough
(b) Lord Wellesley
(c) Lord Dalhousie
(d) Lord Dalhousie

Solution: c

Question 48 : Which of the following Viceroy of India was murdered by a convict in Andaman and Nicobar Island while he was on tour?

(a) Lord Curzon
(b) Lord Ripon
(c) Lord Mayo
(d) Lord Minto

Solution: c

Question 49 : The Viceroy who followed aggressive policy towards Afghanistan was [BPSC 2019]

(a) Lord Mayo
(b) Lord Lytton
(c) Lord Dufferin
(d) Lord Canning

Solution: b

Question 50: Which Governor-General of India advocated rapid railway construction on India? [WBCS 2018]

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