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Multiple choice history how the traders became rulers lord william bentinck subsidiary alliance system expansion of british power in india

Ganga canal was constructed during the reign of ____.

  1. Lord William Bentinck

  2. Lord Dalhousie

  3. Lord Wellesley

  4. Lord Cornwallis
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A separate Public Works Department was set up under the rule of Dalhousie. Irrigational works were undertaken on an extensive scale. The constructional work of Ganga canal was completed and was inaugurated on April 8, 1854. 

Multiple choice history how the traders became rulers lord william bentinck subsidiary alliance system expansion of british power in india

Enclouser in Enland were seen as.

  1. Hindrance to agricultural expansion and crop rotation

  2. Hindrance to commercialization of agriculture

  3. Necessary to make long-term investment on, land agriculture and to plan crop rotatation to improvement the soil

  4. Necessary to protect the interest of those who depended on the common for their survival
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Enclouser in Enland were seen as necessary to make long-term investment on, land agriculture and to plan crop rotatation to improvement the soil.

Multiple choice history how the traders became rulers lord william bentinck subsidiary alliance system expansion of british power in india

Saxon dynasty ruled in

  1. Germany

  2. France

  3. England

  4. Italy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Saxon Dynasty, also called Liudolfing Dynasty, ruling house of German kings (Holy Roman emperors) from 919 to 1024.  He concluded the Privilegium Ottonianum, a treaty that regulated relations between emperor and pope, and initiated a Holy Roman Empire of the German nation.

Multiple choice history how the traders became rulers lord william bentinck subsidiary alliance system expansion of british power in india

The Sati Pratha was declared illegal during the time of Governor General _______.

  1. William Bentinck

  2. Dalhousie

  3. Canning

  4. Cornwallis
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829. A Regulation for declaring the practice of Sati or of Burning or Burying alive the Widows of Hindus, illegal, and punishable by the Criminal Courts.

Multiple choice history how the traders became rulers lord william bentinck subsidiary alliance system expansion of british power in india

Who started the Public Works Department in India in AD 1848?

  1. Lord William Bentinck

  2. Lord Dalhousie

  3. Lord Wellesley

  4. Lord Cornwallis
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Lord Dalhousie, who was the governor-general of India from 1848 to 1856, started the Public Works Department in 1848, and irrigation projects were among the earliest to be launched by this department.

Multiple choice history how the traders became rulers lord william bentinck subsidiary alliance system expansion of british power in india

Who decided to introduce Regulating Act?

  1. Lord North

  2. Lord Curzon

  3. Lord William

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The East India company failed to pay its dues to Government to maintain its monopoly. On the other hand the officials of east India Company were getting richer by their private trade and by receiving gifts. Having observed these things, Lord North decided to overhaul the management of the East India Company with the Regulating Act.