British Rule In India - Study Mode

[#176] Year of the Battle of Wandiwash is __________
Correct Answer

(C) 1760

Explanation

Solution: Battle of Wandiwash, (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history of India, a confrontation between the French, under the comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. It was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle in southern India during the Seven Years War (1756–63).

[#177] The Charter for the establishment of the East India Company was granted by
Correct Answer

(A) Queen Elizabeth I

Explanation

Solution: Charter granted to the East India Company. Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a formal charter to the London merchants trading to the East Indies, hoping to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade in what is now Indonesia.

[#178] By the Act of 1773, Parliament granted a loan of __________ to the East India Company
Correct Answer

(B) Rs. 400,000

Explanation

Solution: By the Act of 1773, Parliament granted a loan of Rs. 400,000 to the East India Company.

[#179] Assertion (A): In some places artisans and craftsmen participated in the Revolt of 1857. Reason (R): The British policy of 'one-way' free trade destroyed village industries and handicrafts in India
Correct Answer

(C) A is true but R is false

Explanation

Solution: Artisans and craftsmen were ruined by the large-scale influx of cheap British.

[#180] On imprisonment in 1908 by the British, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was in
Correct Answer

(D) Mandalay

Explanation

Solution: Bal Gangadhar Tilak was imprisoned in 1908 to Mandalay for six years. Tilak criticise the Britishers in his newspaper, under a article name 'Bharat ki Durdasha' and this became the reason for his imprisonment.