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

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  1. Lord Wellesley

  2. Lord Dalhousie

  3. Lord Ripon

  4. Lord William Bentinck

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Correct Option: B
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.  

When the railway line was laid from Madras to Arakonam?

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  1. 1853

  2. 1854

  3. 1855

  4. 1856

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Correct Option: D

Ganga canal was constructed during the reign of ____.

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  1. Lord William Bentinck

  2. Lord Dalhousie

  3. Lord Wellesley

  4. Lord Cornwallis

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Correct Option: B
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. 

Enclouser in Enland were seen as.

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  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

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Correct Option: C
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.

Saxon dynasty ruled in

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  1. Germany

  2. France

  3. England

  4. Italy

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Correct Option: A
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.

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

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  1. William Bentinck

  2. Dalhousie

  3. Canning

  4. Cornwallis

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Correct Option: A
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.

Prior to the revolt of 1857, there were only two half-finished trunk roads one between Calcutta and Delhi, the other between ________ and _________.

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  1. Madras, Calcutta

  2. Delhi, Lahore

  3. Mombay, Agra

  4. Peshawar, Patna

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Correct Option: C

The General Service Enlistment Act was issued in 1856 by ______ .

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  1. Lord Dufferin

  2. Robert Clive

  3. Lord Canning

  4. Lord Dalhousie

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The General Services Enlistment Act was issued in 1856 by Lord Canning.

First railway line in India was set up by ______ .

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  1. Lord Dalhousie

  2. Lord Macaulay

  3. Sir Charles Wood

  4. Lord Wellesley

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

First railway line in India was set up by Lord Dalhousie in 1853, between Bombay to Thane.

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

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  1. Lord William Bentinck

  2. Lord Dalhousie

  3. Lord Wellesley

  4. Lord Cornwallis

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Correct Option: B
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.