British India-History





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1. Match the following :
Period Event
A. 1757 AD 1. Battle of Plassey
B. 1764 AD 2. Treaty of Salibai
C. 1776 AD 3. Battle of Buxar
D. 1782 AD 4. Treaty of Purandhar
Below options are given in A B C D order.


2. Who among the following Mughal Emperors had the longest reign?


3. Which of thee following pairs are correctly matched?
1. AD 1767-69 - First Anglo-Maratha War
2. AD 1790-92 - Third Mysore War
3. AD 1824-26 - First Anglo-Burmese War
4. AD 1845-46 - Second Sikh War
Select the correct answer using the codes given below :


4. Who was known as the 'Plato of the Jat tribe?"


5. Which of the following organised a Maratha confederacy against the English leading to the Third Anglo Maratha War?


6. Match the following :
A. Pondicherry 1. Danish
B. Goa 2. Dutch
C. Tranauebar 3. English
D. Nagapattinam 4. Portuguese
5. French
A B C D


7. In India, among the following locations, the Dutch established their earliest factory at :


8. The first to start a joint stock company trade with India were the :


9. The earliest Surat factories were established by :


10. Who laid the foundations of Portuguese power in India?


11. Who among the following was called as 'Father of Indian Renaissance'?


12. Who was the first European to translate the Bhagwad Gita into English?


13. The founder of Boy Scouts and Civil Guides Movement in India was :


14. Who was the first Indian to get selected in ICS?


15. The oldest surviving newspaper in India is the :


16. Who remarked 'the bones of the cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of India'?


17. The leader of the Young Bengal Movement was :


18. Who is known as the 'Grand Old Man of India' ?


19. Who gave the moto 'Go back to the Vedas'?


20. In 1893 he started using the traditional religious Ganapati festival to stimulate nationalism among young Maharashtrians: This passage refers to :