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

Under whose Governor-Generalship the Hindu widow remaariage Act was passed?

  1. Lord Cornwallis

  2. Lord William Bentinck

  3. Lord Dalhousie

  4. Lord Ripon
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Lord Dalhousie served as the Governor General of India from 1848 to 1856. His eight year rules were full of improvement and reforms.  He passed Widow Remarriage Act in 1855 which legalized the marriage of Hindu Widows. However this reform became one of the reasons to annoy the people of India.

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

Who allowed a person to inherit his ancestral property even if he changed his religion?

  1. Lord Wellesley

  2. Lord Dalhousie

  3. Lord William Bentinck

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

Before 1850, it was in practice that if any person became a convert, he was deprived of his ancestral property.  This system checked the speed of  conversions in India.But Dalhousie passed the Religious Disability Act in 1850 which enabled the Hindu convert to inherit his ancestral property.

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

The first railway line in India was laid in _____.

  1. 1853

  2. 1854

  3. 1856

  4. 1858
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The railway was introduced by Dalhousie who served as Governor General of India from 1848-1853. The first railway line was introduced by Dalhousie on 16th April 1853 from Mumbai to Thane. It was a 14 carriage train hauled by three locomotives: the Sahib, Sindh and Sultan.

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

When did lord Dalhousie become the Governor General of India?

  1. 1824 A.D.

  2. 1848 A.D.

  3. 1856 A.D.

  4. 1861 A.D.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Lord Dalhousie served as Governor General of India from 1848 to 1856. During this period Dalhousie was successful in annexing Punjab to the British administration. He annexed many states by 'Doctrine of Lapse'. During his governorship first railway line between Mumbai to Thane was opened in 1853 and in the same year Calcutta and Agra were connected by Telegraph.

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

Under whose governor-generalship for the first time, the postal stamps were used in India?

  1. Lord Wellesley

  2. Lord Dalhousie

  3. Lord Ripon

  4. Lord William Bentinck
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Indian Postal System was developed under the governor-generalship of Lord Dalhousie. He served as the Governor General of India from 1848 to 1856. The postal stamps were used in 1854 for the first time.  

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
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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
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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.