Modern India — Company Rule to 1857 — Practice

Question 1

The Battle of Plassey (1757) was fought between the East India Company and

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Question 2

Compared to the Battle of Plassey, the Battle of Buxar (1764) is considered more decisive because

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Question 3

The East India Company obtained Diwani (revenue collection) rights over Bengal, Bihar and Odisha through

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Question 4

The Regulating Act of 1773 created which of the following?

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Question 5

Which Charter Act ended the East India Company's remaining commercial functions entirely, making it purely an administrative body?

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Question 6

The Permanent Settlement, introduced by Lord Cornwallis in 1793, fixed land revenue permanently with

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Question 7

The Ryotwari system of land revenue settlement, associated with Thomas Munro, was chiefly implemented in

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Question 8

The Drain of Wealth theory was articulated by

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Question 9

The Brahmo Samaj, founded in 1828, was established by

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Question 10

The Arya Samaj, founded in 1875 by Swami Dayananda Saraswati, is distinctively associated with which slogan/movement?

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Question 11

The Doctrine of Lapse, a significant contributing cause of the 1857 revolt, was implemented under which Governor-General?

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Question 12

The immediate trigger for the sepoy mutiny at Meerut in May 1857 was

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Question 13

During the 1857 revolt, Rani Lakshmibai led resistance in

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Question 14

Which of the following regions notably did NOT join the 1857 revolt, with Sikh regiments there actively fighting for the Company?

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Question 15

The Mahalwari land revenue system, associated with Holt Mackenzie, settled revenue with

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Practice — Modern India — Company Rule to 1857