EXPANSION OF BRITISH SUPREMACY MCQS SET 33

EXPANSION OF BRITISH SUPREMACY MCQS SET 33

321) In the nineteenth century, India was converted into 'a classic colony' by converting her as
A) a procedure of raw material to fused British industries
B) an importer and absorber of British industrially manufactured goods
C) a fertile ground for British capital investment
D) Both (a) and (b)

Answer: Both (a) and (b)
   
322) The only European country which did not prohibit or impose heavy duties on the import of Indian cotton goods was
A) Germany
B) France
C) Holland
D) Italy

Answer: Holland
   
323) Which of the following settlements about the new landlords is not correct?
A) They were town dwelling merchants and other moneyed classes with no roots in the village
B) They were sent receiving absentee businessmen
C) They openly violated the law which prohibited them for harassing the cultivation
D) They wiped out the traditional rights of the cultivators and reduced them to
the position of tenants at will

Answer: They openly violated the law which prohibited them for harassing the cultivation
   
324) Consider the following statements
1.lmpact of British rule in India was started with the very first Christian missionaries
arriving to India, with the intention to turn a majority of population into Christians.
2. The Christian missionaries tried to cast Christianity in the light of a better religion
and with economic inducements convinced the poor Indians into Christianity.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
A) Only 1
B) Only 2
C) Both1 and 2
D) Neither1 nor2

Answer: Both1 and 2
   
325) Which of the following statements about the Mahalwari Settlement is not correct?
A) Under this system, the unit for revenue settlement is the village
B) The government made the settlement not with the individual cultivator but with the village community as a whole
C) It was introduced in the Gangetic Valley. the Punjab. and parts of central India
D) It was a permanent measure introduced as an improvement on the other two measures

Answer: It was a permanent measure introduced as an improvement on the other two measures

326) A famine of the nineteenth century. which has been described as the 'Sea of Calamity' was the famine in
A) Rajputana, 1868 69
B) Madras Presidency, 1866 67
C) Orissa. 1866 67
D) Bengal. 1860 61

Answer: Orissa. 1866 67
   
327) Who remarked in 1834 that "The bones of the cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of India"?
A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B) William Bentick
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) RC Dutt

Answer: William Bentick
   
328) The term imperial preference was applied to the
A) special privileges on British imports in India
B) racial discrimination by the Britishers
C) subordination of Indian interest to that of the British
D) preference given to British political agents over Indian Princes

Answer: preference given to British political agents over Indian Princes
   
329) Consider the following statements about the Permanent Settlement introduced by the East India Company's government in 1793.
1.Under the settlement the Zamindars were granted heredity rights over land on
the condition that they would pay fixed amount of revenue to the state.
2.The Permanent Settlement was first introduced in Bengal and Bihar.
3.It was later extended to Orissa, the Northern District of Madras.
4.Thomas Munro was the architect of the permanent settlement.
A) 1,2,3 and 4
B) 1,2 and 3
C) 1 and 2
D) 1,3 and 4

Answer: 1,2 and 3
   
330) What was the most important outcome of direct British administration in India?
A) Growth of education
B) Development of railways and telegraph
C) Evolution of modern sector of politics
D) Growth of colonial institutions

Answer: Evolution of modern sector of politics