Modern Indian History - Study Mode

[#446] Which of the following is correctly matched?
Correct Answer

(B) Regulating Act: 1773

Explanation

Solution: The Regulating Act 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to overhaul the management of the East India Company's rule in India.

[#447] The Home Rule League was started by
Correct Answer

(B) B. G. Tilak

Explanation

Solution: Home Rule movement was a movement in British India on the lines of Irish Home rule movement. It started in India under the leadership of Annie besant and B.G Tilak. Firstly Home Rule established in India by B.G Tilak at Belgam (Karnataka) and later by Annie Besant at Adyar in 1916.

[#448] The Simon Commission was formed to review
Correct Answer

(B) Fitness of India for further reforms

Explanation

Solution: The Simon Commission was formed to review the working of Government of India Act, 1919 and suggest further constitutional and administrative reforms in the British colonial rule of India.

[#449] Assertion (A): English was taken as the medium of instruction in India by the William Bentinck. Reason (R): William Bentinck wanted to promote western culture in India
Correct Answer

(A) Both A and R is true and R is the correct explanation of A

Explanation

Solution: William Bentinck reformed the finances, opened up judicial posts to Indians, and suppressed such practices as sati, or widow burning, and thuggee, or ritual murder by robber gangs. The innovations effected in his years of office were milestones in creating a much more interventionist style of government than preceding ones, a style that involved the westernization of Indian society and culture. He introduced English in India.

[#450] Rowlatt after whom Rowlatt Act was named was a
Correct Answer

(A) Justice

Explanation

Solution: Passed on the recommendations of the Rowlatt Committee and named after its president, British judge Sir Sidney Rowlatt, this act effectively authorized the government to imprison any person suspected of terrorism living in British India for up to two years without a trial, and gave the imperial authorities power to deal with all revolutionary activities.