Answer: c
Statement 1 is not correct: The Treaty of Sagauli established the Gandak as boundary line of Nepal. It was signed between the East India Company and Raj Guru Gajaraj Mishra with Chandra Shekhar Upadhaya from Nepal following the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16. The treaty represented a Nepali surrender to the British and contained the cession of Nepal’s western territory to the British East India Company.
Statement 2 is not correct: The Indus navigation Treaty 1832 was concluded between Ranjit Singh of Punjab and Lord William Bentinck which opened up the Satluj for navigation. Ranbir Singh was maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir from 1856 until his death in 1885.
Statement 3 is correct: The Treaty of Amritsar of 1809 was an agreement between the British East India Company and Ranjit Singh. Among the outcomes was that Singh gained a carte blanche (free hand) to further consolidate his territorial gains north of the Sutlej river at the expense of other Sikh chiefs and their peers among the other dominant communities.
Answer: c
Statement 1 is correct: It defined the boundary between India and Afghanistan. It was setup to improve the diplomatic ties between the British establishment in India and the Afghan Kingdom.
Statement 2 is correct: It was set up in 1893 during the tenure of Lord Lansdowne (1888 to 1894).
Answer: C
Statement 1 is not correct: Raja Ram Mohan Roy wanted the introduction of Modern Capitalism in the country. He wanted his countrymen to accept the rational and scientific approach and the principles of human dignity and social equality of all men and women.
Statement 2 is correct: He demanded that the maximum rents paid by the actual cultivators of land should be permanently fixed, so that they too would enjoy benefits of permanent settlement.
Statement 3 is correct: Sambad Kaumudi was a Bengali weekly newspaper published from Kolkata in the first half of the 19th century by Ram Mohan Roy. It actively campaigned for the abolition of the Sati Pratha.
Answer: B
Statement 1 is not correct: Under Ryotwari system, the cultivator was to be recognized as the owner of his plot of land subject to the payment of land revenue.
Statement 2 is correct: The government retained the right to enhance land revenue at will.
Answer: A
Statement 1 is correct: The price paid to the peasant for indigo plants was far below market price. He also had to pay regular bribes to the planter’s officials.
Statement 2 is not correct: A significant feature of the Indigo Revolt was the role of the intelligentsia of Bengal which organized a powerful campaign in support of the rebellious peasantry. It carried on newspaper campaigns, organized mass meetings, prepared memoranda on peasants’ grievances and supported them in their legal battles.
Answer: B
Statement 1 is not correct: Lord William Bentinck served as Governor General of India between 1828 to
Statement 2 is correct: His tenure is known for the social reforms such as Abolition of Sati in 1829, Suppression of Thugi, and Suppression of Infanticide.
Statement 3 is correct: During his tenure the Government Resolution in 1835 made English the official and literary language of India.
Answer: D
The Regulating Act of 1771 proved to be an unsatisfactory document as it failed in its objective. This paved way for the famous Pitt’s India Act of 1784.
Statement 1 is not correct: A Board of Control consisting of six members was created. They were appointed by the Crown.
Statement 2 is not correct: The Court of Directors was retained without any alteration in its composition.
Statement 3 is not correct: The Act also introduced significant changes in the Indian administration. It reduced the number of the members of the Governor- General’s Council from four to three including the Commander-in-Chief.
Answer: A
Any Indian ruler who entered into the subsidiary alliance with the British had to maintain a contingent of British troops in his territory. It was commanded by a British officer. The Indian state was called ‘the protected state’ and the British hereinafter were referred to as ‘the paramount power’. It was the duty of the British to safeguard that state from external aggression and to help its ruler maintain internal peace. The protected state should give some money or give part of its territory to the British to support the subsidiary force.
Statement 1 is correct: The protected state should cut off its connection with European powers other than the English and with the French in particular. The state was also forbidden to have any political contact even with other Indian powers without the permission of the British.
Statement 2 and 3 are correct: The ruler of the protected state should keep a British Resident at his court and disband his own army. He should not employ Europeans in his service without the sanction of the paramount power.
Statement 4 is not correct: The paramount power will not interfere in the internal affairs of the protected state.
Answer: D
The following events occurred during the tenure of Lord Wavell (1944 – 1947) as Viceroy of India
Crips Mission was sent by British during the tenure of Lord Linlithgow (1936 – 1944).
Answer: C
Some of the political associations formed before the 1857 revolt are:
The Bengal British India Society (1843).
British Indian Association (1851);
Atmiya Sabha (1815).
Some of the political associations formed acer the 1857 revolt are:
The Indian Association (1876)
The Bombay Presidency Association (1885)
Answer: A
Statement 1 is correct: Provision was made in the Act for the establishment of a Supreme Court at Calcutta
consisting of a Chief Justice and three junior judges. It was to be independent of the Governor General in Council. In 1774, the Supreme Court was established by a Royal Charter.
Statement 2 is not correct: The Governors of Bombay and Madras lost their legislative powers in 1833 as per
charter act of 1833, not under the Regulating Act of 1773.
Statement 3 is not correct: Charter Act of 1833 ended the activities of the East India Company as commercial
body which then became a purely administrative body.
Answer: A
Lord Ripon appointed the Indian Education Commission on 3rd February 1882, with Sir William Hunter as its
Chairman. It is known as Hunter Commission of 1882 to assess the position of primary education in India
and to suggest measures for its reform.
Statement 1 is correct: After the transfer of administrative power from the East India Company, it was
considered necessary to assess the development of education in the country. It was felt that the grant -in-
aid system as suggested by Wood’s Dispatch was not properly carried out. So Lord Ripon appointed the
Hunter Commission to review the working of Wood’s Dispatch of 1854.
Statement 2 is not correct: According to the commission Government should gradually withdraw itself from
the field of secondary education.
Statement 3 is not correct: It stated that expansion of secondary education should be entrusted to efficient
private enterprise.
Answer: A
Statement 1 is correct: Tipu Sultan entered into negotiations for an alliance with the revolutionary France.
Statement 2 is correct: He sent missions to Afghanistan, Arabia and Turkey to forge an Anti-British alliance.
Statement 3 is not correct: After the death of Tipu Sultan, nearly half of the Tipu’s Dominions were divided
between British and their ally, the Nizam. The reduced kingdom of Mysore was restored to the descendants
of the original rajas from whom Haider Ali has seized power. A special treaty of Subsidiary Alliance was imposed on the new Raja by which, Governor-general was authorized to take over the administration of the state in case of necessity. Mysore was, in fact, made a complete dependency of the company.
Answer: B
Statement 1 is not correct: As per the Charter Act of 1833, an Indian Law Commission was established. The
first Law Commission had Lord Macaulay as its chairman.
Statement 2 is correct: It increased the functions of legislative councils and gave them the power of discussing and right to ask questions on the budget which was barred in the Indian Councils Act 1861.
Answer: C
Statement 1 is correct: In 1873-74, the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, led by Justice Ranade, had organized a
successful campaign among the peasants, as well as at Poona and Bombay against the land revenue
settlement of 1867.
Statement 2 is correct: Gopal Krishna Gokhale served as the Secretary of ‘Poona Sarvajanik Sabha’. Later
there emerged a competition between Gokhale and Tilak for controlling the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha. The
contest came to the surface when in 1895 Tilak captured the organisation and the following year Gokhale starred his rival organisation, the Deccan Sabha.
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