British Power interview questions

Who founded Asiatic Society of Bengal?

1. Lord Ripon
2. David Hane
3. Drinkwater Bethune
4. William Jones

In whose Viceroyalty the White Mutiny (1883) took place?

1. Lord Curzon
2. Lord Hardinge
3. Lord Minto
4. Lord Ripon

In whose reign, Guru Nanak Deva established Sikhism?

1. Akbar
2. Humayun
3. Sikandar Lodi
4. Firoz Shah Tughlaq

The successor of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was

1. Naunihal Singh
2. Sher Singh
3. Harihar Singh Nalwa
4. Kharaq Singh

Who of the following compiled ‘Adigranth’ or Guru Granth Saheb’?

1. Guru Arjun Dev
2. Guru Govind Singh
3. Guru Teg Bahadur
4. Guru Nanak Dev

In which of the following years, the Battle of Buxar was fought?

1. 1761
2. 1764
3. 1766
4. 1767

Khalsa was founded by

1. Guru Arjun Dev
2. Guru Nanak
3. Guru Singh
4. Guru Gobind Singh

The Gurumukhi script was introduced by

1. Guru Nanak
2. Guru Angad
3. Guru Ramdas
4. Guru Amardas

Which of the following was capital of Raja Ranjit Singh of Punjab?

1. Peshawar
2. Rawalpindi
3. Amritsar
4. Lahore

Which was the birth place of Guru Nanak?

1. Talwandi
2. Lahore
3. Amritsar
4. Gurdaspur

The last major extension of British Indian territory took place during the time of

1. Minto I
2. Curzon
3. Lytton
4. Dufferin

Sirajuddaulah was defeated by Lord Clive in the battle of

1. Wandiwash
2. Munger
3. Buxar
4. Plassey

Hyder Ali was defeated at porto Novo by which British General?

1. General Godard
2. Captain Hector Munro
3. Sir Eyrecoot
4. Captain Pophem

Which one of the following places was famous as capital of Tipu Sultan?

1. Hampi
2. Gulbarga
3. Srirangpattam
4. None of these

Who among the following was NOT a party to the league that was defeated by the British in the Battle of Buxar?

1. Mir Kasim
2. Mir Jafar
3. Shah Alam
4. Shujaddaulah

The first Governor General of India was

1. Lord Lytton
2. Lord William Bentick
3. Lord Canning
4. Lord Clive

First decisive military success of English East India Company in India is marked by

1. Battle of Haldi Ghati
2. Battle of Panipat
3. Battle of Plassey
4. Battle of Buxar

Which Governor General is associated with Doctrine of Lapse?

1. Lord Dalhousie
2. Lord Curzon
3. Lord Bentick
4. Lord Ripon

The first Governor General of India was appointed in

1. 1774
2. 1833
3. 1858
4. 1911

A group of eunuchs and ladies dominated in the Government under

1. Alamgir II (1754-59)
2. Shah Alam II (1759-1806)
3. Ahmed Shah (1748-54)
4. Muhammad Shah (1719-48)

Who converted Sikhs into a martial race?

1. Teg Bahadur
2. Hargovind
3. Gobind Singh
4. Arjun Dev

Tipu Sultan took support of which one of the following powers to fight the English?

1. Portuguese
2. Dutch
3. Spanish
4. French

When was the battle of Plassey fought?

1. 1757
2. 1789
3. 1848
4. 1857

Who was the last independent Nawab of Bengal?

1. Najmuddaulah
2. Mir Kasim
3. Mir Jafar
4. Sirajuddaulah

Whose enemiesmere Raja vallabh, Ghasiti Begum and Shaukat Jung?

1. Nand Kumar
2. Sirayuddaula
3. Mirkasim
4. Alvardi Khan

Which British Governor General introduced Postage Stamp in India?

1. Lord William Bentinck
2. Lord Dalhousie
3. Lord Canning
4. Lord Auckland

Who was the founder of Hindu Mela?

1. Akshya Kumar Dutt
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3. Surendranath Bannerjee
4. Nabagopal Mitra

Teacher’s Day is celebrated on the Birth day of

1. Indira Gandhi
2. Rajendra Prasad
3. S. Radha Krishnan
4. Jawahar Lal Nehru

Who wrote the book ‘Life Divine’?

1. Mulk Raj Anand
2. Abul Kalam Azad
3. Aurobindo Ghosh
4. Jawahar Lal Nehru

Who of the following started the newspaper ‘Vande Mataram’?

1. Surendra Nath Bannerjee
2. Devendra Nath Tagore
3. Bipin Chandra Pal
4. Barindra Kumar Ghosh