MCQs of History – India Under British Rule

The Island was a British crown colony. It became an independent state in 1948 and changed its name in 1972. I want its old name.

Part of this region were annexed by British 1826, another area 1852 and year another area 1886. The parts annexed 1826 were called Arakan and Tenasserim.

There were also French and Portuguese enclaves in India. All of the alternatives here are French enclaves. But the right answer will be the enclave that is situated in Bengal.

This Portuguese enclave was captured by Portugal 1559.

This city has the first European fort built in India, by Afonso Albuquerque in 1503.

This city was made capital of Travancore 1745.

This city was visited by Vasco de Gama 1498 and unsuccessfully attacked by Albuquerque 1510. The British established themselves here 1664, the French 1698. It was Danish 1752-84, then again British.

Shillong was made capital of this district 1874. It is today a state in India, its present capital is Dispur.

This former Indian state is now divided among the states Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra Its name is also the name of a walled city, today capital of Andhra Pradesh.

A Danish settlement was established here 1616. It was taken by British 1801, restored to Denmark 1814 but bought back along with other Danish settlements in India 1845.

An English factory was founded in the city 1608, the first in India and the beginning of the British Empire in India Seat of British India government until 1687.

The former name of this city was Fort St.George. Its present name is Chennai. But most of its history it was called______?

This was the earliest British settlement on the Coromandel Coast on the SE coast of India

This city NW of Calcutta was a major river part in early history of British India, bot lost much of its importance due to the railroad. It is now capital of Bihar.

This former Indian state is now part of Madhya Pradesh state. Capital; Lashkar. It used to be one of the five chief Indian states and was ruled by the Marathas family.

The NW part of this region is mainly desert (Thar desert). The region with this official name included 21 Indian states in the region. The Resident for the Crown resided at Mount Abu.

This is a former province of British India,but is today divided between India and Pakistan. Capital of this province was Simla. When divided, Chandigarh became capital of Indian part, Lahore of pakistani.

This was also an Indian state under British rule. Its capital is Bhuj. The former state was scene of a military clash between India and Pakistan 1965.

This city on the Malabar Coast in SW India was site of a Portuguese factory erected 1596. captured by British 1783 but the British garrison was forced by Tipu Sahib to capitulate 1784 Restored to British authority 1799.

The city replaced Calcutta as capital of British India 1912.

When was the East India founded?

Which Indian cities were the first trading posts established by the East India Company?

Why was the Mughal empire weakened, and less able to prevent the British from expanding their power base in India?

Why did the East India Company decided to recruit its own army?

Which city was captured from the British by local ruler Siraj-ud-Daula in 1756?

How did the British win the Battle of Plassey in 1757?

What practice was banned by Governor-General Bentinck in 1829?

In what year did Queen Victoria become Empress of India (in addition to being Queen of England)?

In 1857 there was a major rebellion against the British, where did it begin?

Who was the commander of Rani Lekshmi Bai’s forces during the first war of independence in 1857?

The British had a policy of renaming Indian cities when they were in power. What was the original name of the city Trivandrum?

Lord Clive was Governor of Bengal twice but what was his position in the East India Company when he first came to India?

Who fought the third Mysore war against the British?

Lord William Bentick was the best Governor-General India had. Which of the following cannot be attributed to him?

Which event/thing sparked off the Revolt of 1857?

who abolished the Vernacular Press Act in 1882?

When was the first census in India taken?

Who said: “if I were asked under what sky the humman mind was fully developed, I should point to India.”?

The first railway line in India, laid in 1853, connected Bombay and which town?

What was the significance of the English Royal Charter?

Who was the Governor General of India when the treasury was shifted from Murshidabad to calcutta?

Which was the first state to come under the grip of Subsidiary Alliance?

under the Permanent Settlement how much was a Zamindar required to give to the government?

Whose views finally settled the ‘language controversy’ on the introduction of English in India?

Which state was the first to be annexed on the basis of the Doctrine of Lapse?

Which state was annexed by the British in 1856 on the grounds of misgovernment?

Who started the newspaper ‘Vande Mataram’ in the U.K?

Who was first designated as the Governor-General of India?

Which Viceroy was known as ‘The Father of Local Self-Government’?

Who was the first Indian to be directly recruited to the Indian Civil Service?

In 1912 a bomb blast wounded Lord Hardinge. Whoo was behind the conspiracy?

What term did Montague use for the policy adopted by the British to check the crimes committed by the revolutionaries?

Under whose leadership was a ‘Provisional Independent Government’ of India’ set up?

Who was the Governor-General of India at the outbreak of the Second World War?

Which act was passed in context of ‘Komagata Maru’ incident?

In the famous Declaration made by Queen Victoria following the takeover of India’s rule by the British Government, which of the following was *not* promised?

Who was the Viceroy of India after the post of Governor General was abandoned?

Which socio-religious organization was started by the famour social reformer, Raja Ram Mohan Roy?

Which was the first political association formed by Indians in India?

This gentleman, the father of India’s first Nobel Prize Winner and a member of the Bramho Samaj, went on to start the Bengal Association.