The first Trading Centre which was established by the British was
(1) Kolkata                  (2) Surat
(3) Chennai                 (4) Mumbai

When and which Governor-General decided to make English the medium of instruction in India?
(1) 1805-Lord Wellesley
(2) 1845-Lord Hardinge
(3)1835-Lord William Bentick
(4) 1850-Lord Dalhousie

Who among the following, is acknowledged as the pioneer of Local Self-Government in India?
(1) Rippon                       (2) Mayo
(3) Lytton                         (4) Curzon

Who among the following is popularly known as ‘Periyar’?

(1) C.V. Raman Pillai
(2) C.N. Mudaliar
(3) E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
(4) L. Ramkrishna Pillai

In which of the following places was the Ryotwari settlement introduced?

(1) Uttar Pradesh and Punjab
(2) North-West Provinces and Punjab
(3) Madras and Bombay
(4) Bengal and Bihar

Which among the following places, was not an important center of the Revolt of 1857?
(1) Agra                              (2) Kanpur
(3) Jhansi                           (4) Lucknow

Who, among the following, abolished the Dual System of Government in Bengal?

(1) Lord Clive
(2) Lord Cornwallis
(3) Spencer
(4) Lord Warren Hastings

Who among the following was famous for framing the education minute?
(1) Lord Elgin                            (2) Lord Macaulay
(3) Sadler                                  (4) None of these

Who, among the following, has been known as the ‘Frontier Gandhi’?

(1) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(2) Khan Saheb
(3) Chaudhary Shaukatullah
(4) Liaquat Ali Khan

The Ryotwari System of Land Tenure refers to a situation where—

(1) the Ryot is the owner of the land held by him/her and directly pays the revenue assessed           on the land to the State

(2) the Ryot is an occupancy tenant of his/her land and pays the land revenue to the Zamindar

(3) the person cultivates the land leased from a landlord and in return pays rent to the landlord

(4) the land is collectively owned and cultivated on a cooperative basis

Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the first Arya Samaj in 1875 at
(1) Bombay                           (2) Lahore
(3) Nagpur                            (4) Ahmadnagar