WBCS Mains Advent of Europeans & British Expansion Question 2023
Q. In which year Vasco-da-Gama arrived in Kalikat?
(A) 1757
(B) 1498
(C) 1497
(D) 1598
Correct Answer: (B) 1498
Q. The signatories of the Treaty of Basin (1802) were the English East India Company and:
(A) the Sikhs.
(B) the Marathas.
(C) Nizam of Hyderabad.
(D) Tipu Sultan.
Correct Answer: (B) the Marathas.
Q. Which Governor General introduced the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’?
(A) Lord Cornwallis
(B) Lord Dalhousie
(C) Lord Wellesley
(D) Lord Ripon
Correct Answer: (B) Lord Dalhousie
Q. Which Mughal ruler granted Diwani Rights of Bengal to the English East India Company?
(A) Farrukhsiyar
(B) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(C) Jahandar Shah
(D) ShahAlam II
Correct Answer: (D) ShahAlam II
Q. Who appointed the Amini Commission?
(A) Lord Cornwallis
(B) Lord Dalhausie
(C) Lord Warren Hestings
(D) Lord Minto
Correct Answer: (C) Lord Warren Hestings
Q. Who was the first Indian ruler to accept the Subsidiary Alliance?
(A) The Nawab of Bengal
(B) The Nizam of Hyderabad
(C) The Nawab of Awadh
(D) Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao
Correct Answer: (B) The Nizam of Hyderabad
WBCS Mains Advent of Europeans & British Expansion Question 2022
Q. Nawab Alivardi Khan was the grandfather of:
(A) Shuja ud Daulah
(B) Siraj ud Daulah
(C) Sarfraz Khan
(D) Mir Qasim
Correct Answer: (B) Siraj ud Daulah
Q. The Battle of Buxar took place in the year:
(A) 1765
(B) 1764
(C) 1795
(D) 1800
Correct Answer: (B) 1764
Q. The Battle of Plassey was fought in:
(A) 1756
(B) 1757
(C) 1780
(D) 1790
Correct Answer: (B) 1757
Q. The firman of 1717 was issued by:
(A) Farrukhsiyar
(B) Jahangir
(C) Aurangzeb
(D) Jahandar Shah
Correct Answer: (A) Farrukhsiyar
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Q. According to which treaty were Tipu’s children held in Calcutta as security pending payment of compensation to the Company?
(A) Treaty of Madras
(B) Treaty of Mangalore
(C) Treaty of Seringapattanam
(D) Treaty of Trichinopoly
Correct Answer: (C) Treaty of Seringapattanam
Q. By which treaty was Gulab Singh given the kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir?
(A) Treaty of Amritsar
(B) Treaty of Lahore
(C) Treaty of Bhairowal
(D) Treaty of Jullundar
Correct Answer: (A) Treaty of Amritsar
Q. In which year was Satara, the family seat of the house of Shivaji, annexed by the British?
(A) 1835
(B) 1842
(C) 1848
(D) 1854
Correct Answer: (C) 1848
Q. In which year was the Treaty of Salbai signed?
(A) 1776
(B) 1782
(C) 1793
(D) 1802
Correct Answer: (B) 1782
Q. Which Governor-General of India introduced the policy of annexation of princely states on the ground of bad administration?
(A) Lord Wellesley
(B) Lord Bentinck
(C) Lord Dalhousie
(D) None of the above
Correct Answer: (B) Lord Bentinck
Q. Which of the following was not true of the Treaty of Madras, 1769?
(A) It was forced by Haidar after a victorious campaign against the combined forces of the Madras Council and the Nizam of Hyderabad.
(B) It entailed a defensive alliance between Mysore and the Company.
(C) The Company was exempted from the compulsion of defensive alliance if Mysore went to war with Hyderabad.
(D) None of the above
Correct Answer: (C) The Company was exempted from the compulsion of defensive alliance if Mysore went to war with Hyderabad.
Q. Which treaty brought the Second Anglo-Mysore War to a close?
(A) Madras
(B) Seringapattanam
(C) Trichinopoly
(D) Mangalore
Correct Answer: (D) Mangalore
Q. Who among the following did not benefit territorially from the Treaty of Seringapattanam?
(A) The Company
(B) Hyderabad
(C) The Marathas
(D) Bhonsle of Berar
Correct Answer: (D) Bhonsle of Berar
Q. Who initiated the alignment of peninsular powers against the Company in the 1770s?
(A) The Marathas
(B) Hyder Ali
(C) Tipu Sultan
(D) Nizam of Hyderabad
Correct Answer: (B) Hyder Ali
Q. Why did Mir Qasim shift his capital from Murshidabad to Munghyr?
(A) Murshidabad was easily accessible from Calcutta by the riverine route.
(B) The defensive fortifications of Murshidabad were inadequate given Company’s fire power.
(C) It was easier to receive military support from Awadh and North India undetected.
(D) All of the above
Correct Answer: (D) All of the above
Q. When was the right of discussion of the budget given to councillors of the Imperial/Legislative Council?
(A) Queen’s Proclamation
(B) Indian Council’s Act, 1861
(C) Indian Council’s Act, 1892
(D) Indian Council’s Act, 1909
Correct Answer: (C) Indian Council’s Act, 1892
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Q. Permission to the British to establish their trading centre at Surat was given by the Mughal Emperor:
(A) Babur
(B) Humayun
(C) Akbar
(D) Jahangir
Correct Answer: (D) Jahangir
Q. The English East India Company ceased to be a trade company by which of the following legislations?
(A) Pitts India Act of 1784
(B) Charter Act of 1833
(C) Charter Act of 1813
(D) Government of India Act, 1858
Correct Answer: (B) Charter Act of 1833
Q. The Peshwa accepted the Subsidiary Alliance with the British by:
(A) Treaty of Purandhar
(B) Treaty of Bassein
(C) Treaty of Salbai
(D) Treaty of Surji Arjangaon
Correct Answer: (B) Treaty of Bassein
Q. The treaty of Seringapatam is associated with the end of:
(A) Second Anglo-Maratha War
(B) Third Anglo-Maratha War
(C) Third Anglo-Mysore War
(D) Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
Correct Answer: (C) Third Anglo-Mysore War
Q. Vasco da Gama, the sailor was a:
(A) Portuguese
(B) American
(C) German
(D) Italian
Correct Answer: (A) Portuguese
Q. Which European power was the last to reach India?
(A) Portuguese
(B) The Dutch
(C) British
(D) French
Correct Answer: (D) French
WBCS Mains Advent of Europeans & British Expansion Question 2019
Q. After Bengal, the English secured the rights of duty free trade in the dominions of:
(A) Raja of Benaras
(B) Nawab of Awadh
(C) The Nizam of Hyderabad
(D) The Jats of Bharatpur
Correct Answer: (A) Raja of Benaras
Q. The Nawab of Awadh who was appointed the Wazir of the Mughal empire was:
(A) Sadat Khan
(B) Safdar Jang
(C) Asaf ud daula
(D) Nasiruddin
Correct Answer: (B) Safdar Jang
Q. The chief Dutch export from the Coromondel Ports was:
(A) Textiles
(B) Indigo
(C) Spices
(D) Saltpetre
Correct Answer: (A) Textiles
Q. When did the Company lose its monopoly of Indian trade which was thrown open to all Britons?
(A) 1813
(B) 1833
(C) 1853
(D) 1793
Correct Answer: (A) 1813
Q. Which of the following is not one of the arrangements made by the English after defeating the Marathas in the third Anglo-Maratha war?
(A) The Peswaship was abolished.
(B) Holkar was forced to enter into a subsidiary alliance.
(C) The Gaekwar entered into a subsidiary alliance.
(D) The small kingdom of Satara formed out of Peswa dominions was given to Pratap Singh.
Correct Answer: (C) The Gaekwar entered into a subsidiary alliance.
Q. Who is known as the ‘Plato of the Jat tribe’?
(A) Rajaram
(B) Churaman
(C) Badan Singh
(D) Surajmal
Correct Answer: (D) Surajmal
Q. During the British rule the only British King to visit India and hold his magnificent Durbar, was:
(A) Edward VII
(B) George V
(C) James II
(D) Edward VI
Correct Answer: (B) George V
Q. A Public Service Commission was established in India for the first time by:
(A) The Indian Council Act 1892
(B) Act of 1909
(C) The Government of India Act, 1919
(D) The Government of India Act, 1935
Correct Answer: (C) The Government of India Act, 1919
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Q. Arrange according to the chronological order the following kingdoms annexed by Dalhousie as per the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’.
(i) Baghat
(ii) Sambhalpur
(iii) Satara
(iv) Jhansi
(A) (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
(B) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)
(C) (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)
(D) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
Correct Answer: (C) (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)
Q. The effects of 1717 farman of Emperor Farukshiyar, granting exemption to the Company’s merchandise from customs duty in lieu of an annual sum of ₹3000 was:
(A) with a dastak (hand written pass) Company’s goods could pass without inspection through toll station (chowki).
(B) Company’s officials quietly extended this privilege to their own private trade.
(C) the ‘chief sufferers’ was the government of the Nawabs who lost out on customs duties and rival Indian traders who faced unequal competition.
(D) All of the above
Correct Answer: (D) All of the above
Q. The first Indian ruler who joined the Subsidiary Alliance was:
(A) Nawab of Oudh
(B) Nizam of Hyderabad
(C) Peshwa Baji Rao II
(D) King of Travancore
Correct Answer: (B) Nizam of Hyderabad
Q. What was the plausible reason for the English to take up additional fortifications of Calcutta?
(A) To protect English trade from local disturbances
(B) To protect themselves from the French on the occasion of ‘Seven Years War’
(C) The English discounted like many others the chances of Siraj ud daula’s accession and hence paid scant respect to his authority.
(D) To strengthen their establishments in Bengal
Correct Answer: (C) The English discounted like many others the chances of Siraj ud daula’s accession and hence paid scant respect to his authority.
Q. Who established Calcutta Madrasa?
(A) Warren Hastings
(B) William Bentinck
(C) Lord Cornwallis
(D) Lord Wellesley
Correct Answer: (A) Warren Hastings
Q. Who was the author of Siyar-ul-Mutakherin?
(A) Gulam Hussein
(B) Arif
(C) Nasir Hussein
(D) Shahabuddin
Correct Answer: (A) Gulam Hussein
Q. Assertion (A): The Carnatic War has attained a celebrity in history which is:
(A) If the Assertion (A) is correct but Reason (R) is wrong.
(B) If (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
Correct Answer: The question is incomplete in the supplied source, so the correct option cannot be determined.
Q. Which one of the following conspirators against Siraj ud daulah was duped?
(A) Mir Zafar
(B) Khwaja Wazid
(C) Rai Durlabh
(D) Umi Chand
Correct Answer: (D) Umi Chand
Q. The first women state prisoner under Regulation III of 1818 was:
(A) [Truncated/Not specified]
(B) Dukoribala Debi
(C) Kalpana Dutta
(D) Bina Das
Correct Answer: (B) Dukoribala Debi
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Q. From which of the following countries did Tipu Sultan seek help to expel the British from India?
(A) France
(B) Turkey
(C) Arabia and Afghanistan
(D) All of the above
Correct Answer: (D) All of the above
Q. The Battle of Panipat (1761) resulted in the defeat of:
(A) The Marathas
(B) Ahmad Shah Abdali
(C) The East India Company
(D) Nadir Shah
Correct Answer: (A) The Marathas
Q. Which Governor General created the Covenanted Civil Service of India, which came to be known as Indian Civil Service from 1861 onwards?
(A) William Bentinck
(B) Lord Wellesley
(C) Lord Cornwallis
(D) Warren Hastings
Correct Answer: (C) Lord Cornwallis
Q. Who was popularly known as Nana Saheb?
(A) Baji Rao I
(B) Balaji Baji Rao
(C) Balaji Biswanath
(D) Sawai Madhav Rao
Correct Answer: (B) Balaji Baji Rao
WBCS Mains Advent of Europeans & British Expansion Question 2016
Q. By whom was the new imperial policy of “Paramountcy” initiated?
(A) Lord Wellesley
(B) Lord Cornwallis
(C) Lord Hastings
(D) Warren Hastings
Correct Answer: (C) Lord Hastings
Q. The conquered people were to be ruled by their own laws and British rule had to “Legitimize itself in an Indian Idiom”. This was the Fundamental principle of:
(A) Evangelicalism
(B) Orientalism
(C) Utilitarianism
(D) Mercantilism
Correct Answer: (B) Orientalism
Q. When was the ‘Double Government’ consisting of the Court of Directors and the Board of Control, created at the Home Government level?
(A) 1853
(B) 1833
(C) 1813
(D) 1784
Correct Answer: (D) 1784
Q. Where did the so called ‘Black Hole Tragedy’ take place?
(A) Calcutta
(B) Dacca
(C) Monghyr
(D) Murshidabad
Correct Answer: (A) Calcutta
Q. Which of the following statements about Tipu Sultan is not correct?
(A) His reign represented a discontinuity in 18th Century Indian politics, as his kingship was rooted firmly in a strong regional tradition.
(B) In a symbolic gesture to proclaim his independence, he issued coins without any reference to the Mughal emperor.
(C) Instead of emperor Shah Alam’s name he inserted his own name in the Khutba (Friday prayers at the Mosque’s).
(D) He never sought a sanad from the Ottoman Khalifa to legitimise his rule.
Correct Answer: (D) He never sought a sanad from the Ottoman Khalifa to legitimise his rule.
Q. Which of the following statements is/are correct?
(A) Fort William College was closed in 1802.
(B) In 1805 the East India College was established at Heartford near London.
(C) The East India College was moved to Hailebury in 1809.
(D) All of the above
Correct Answer: (D) All of the above
Q. Who gave Bombay to Charles II of England as a dowry gift for his marriage with Catherine of Braganza?
(A) Spanish
(B) Portuguese
(C) Dutch
(D) Danes
Correct Answer: (B) Portuguese
WBCS Mains Advent of Europeans & British Expansion Question 2015
Q. What was the early capital of the Portuguese in India?
(A) Goa
(B) Cochin
(C) Calicut
(D) Cannanore
Correct Answer: (B) Cochin
Q. The British officer who defeated Mir Qasim in a series of battles of 1763 was
(A) Major Hector Munro
(B) Major Adams
(C) Colonel Malleson
(D) Colonel Holwell
Correct Answer: (B) Major Adams
Q. What was the early capital of the Portuguese in India?
(A) Goa
(B) Cochin
(C) Calicut
(D) Cannanore
Correct Answer: (B) Cochin
Q. When and by whom were the Portuguese driven out of Hugli in Bengal?
(A) 1625-Shaista Khan
(B) 1631-Qasim Khan
(C) 1650-Prince Murad
(D) 1666-Prince Shuja
Correct Answer: (B) 1631-Qasim Khan
Q. Which region in India provided the best quality saltpetre and opium to the Europeans?
(A) Coromondal
(B) Gujarat
(C) Bihar
(D) Malabar
Correct Answer: (C) Bihar
Q. Who confessed the following way? ‘We have no right to seize Sind. Yet we shall do so and a very big advantageous, useful, human piece of rascality it will be’.
(A) Lord Auckland
(B) Lord Ellenborough
(C) Sir Charles Napier
(D) Major James Outram
Correct Answer: (C) Sir Charles Napier
Q. Who was the Governor General when Sind was annexed?
(A) Lord Auckland
(B) Lord Ellenborough
(C) Lord Dalhousie
(D) Lord Hardinge-I
Correct Answer: (B) Lord Ellenborough
WBCS Mains Advent of Europeans & British Expansion Question 2014
Q. Who announced Queen Victoria as the Crown of India?
(A) Lord Wellesley
(B) Lord Cornwallis
(C) Lord Lytton
(D) Lord Hastings
Correct Answer: (C) Lord Lytton
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