NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: History MCQs (Practice_Test 129 of 130)
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- With references to Lord Hasting՚s judical reforms, which one of the following statements is not correct?
- Lord Hastings provided that there was to be a Munsif in every Thans.
- Munsifs were allowed to try cases up to the value of ₹ 500 (five hundred)
- The decisions of the Munsifs were to be confirmed by the judges of the Diwani Adalist.
- The Munsifs were to be appointed by the judges of the Diwani Adalat although the power of approval was left with the Provincial Court of Appeal.
- Consider the following statements:
- Prince Shuja gave the East India Company the Exemption from payment of the usual customs duty 4 V2 percent in return for an annual payment of 30 lakhs rupees.
- Murshid Quli Jafar Khan stipulated that the Company՚s dastaka could not be used for internal trade.
- The servants of East India Company sold the dastake to Indian merchants to enable them to evade the customs duty.
- Which of the statements given above is⟋are correct?
- 1 and 3 only
- 2 and 3 only
- 2 only
- 1,2 and 3
- Consider the following statements:
- After Rammohan՚s death in 1833 Devendranath Tagore became the leader of the Brahmo Samaj.
- Devendranath tried to polpularise the ideas of Rammohan by founding the Tattivabodini Sabha, which became a platform for the expression of progressive public opinions and religious views.
- Which of the statements given above is⟋are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
- An important landmark in the history of women՚s higher education in Bengal was the foundation of a school in Calcutta in May 1849. Who among the following was its founder?
- Hodgson Prett
- JED Bethune
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Raja Baidyanath Roy
- Which one of the following was the first English language weekly paper to be published from Bombay?
- Bombay Courier
- Bombay Gazette
- Bombay Herald
- Bombay Times
- With reference to the rise modern literature in Indian languages, which one of the following statements is not correct?
- Dinbandhu Mitra՚s play Neeldarpan probed into the depth of exploitation and atrocities committed by the Indigo planters.
- Bankimchandra՚s semi-historical novel Durgeshnandini was a landmark in the field of Bengali language, as it not only made Bengali language respectable for the English educated but also gave them a new prose style
- Bipin Chandra Pal started the weekly New Bengal through which he ventilated ideas about patriotism, nationalilsm and nation building.
- Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar was known as Shivaji of Modern Marathi language
- Which of the following Acts were passed the British Government in 1856?
- Hindu Widow Remarriage Act.
- Abolition of Sati (Regulation. XVII)
- Religious Disabilities Act
- General Service Enlistment Act
- Select the correct answer using the code given below?
- 1 and 3 only
- 2 and 4 only
- 1,3 and 4
- 1,2 and 3
- The Montagu՚s Declaration of 20th August 1917 contained:
- Increasing association of Indians in every branch of administration.
- Gradual development of self-governing institutions.
- Realisation of responsible government independent of the British Empire.
- Progress in this policy to be achieved in successive stages.
- Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- 1,2 and 3 only
- 2 and 4 only
- 1,2 and 4 only
- 1,2, 3 and 4