General Awareness Questions 4

1. The name of Lord Cornwallis is associated with the

System of subsidiary

Maratha wars

Permanent settlement

Dual government

2. Which of the following pairs is correct?

Ashvaghosa - Vikramaditya

Banabhatta - Harshvardhan

Kalidasa - Samudragupta

Harisena - Kanishka

3. Which was the first among the following?

Doctrine of Lapse

Double Government

Permanent Settlement

Subsidiary Alliance

4. 4th July, 1776 is important in world history because

Sea route to India was discovered

Battle of Plassey started

English King Charles II was executed

American congress adopted the Declaration of Independence

5. “The Vedas contain all the truth” was interpreted by

Swami Vivekanand

Swami Shraddhanand

Swami Dayanand

S.Radhakrishnan

6. Rowlatt Act was passed in the year

1921

1919

1917

1923

7. Babur entered India for the first time from the west through

Punjab

Rajasthan

Kashmir

Sind

8. Sir Charles Wood’s Despatch of 1854 dealt with

Administrative reforms

Economic reforms

Social reforms

Educational reforms

9. Which of the following battles changed the destiny of a Mughal ruler of India?

Chusa

Haldighati

Panipat II

Khanua

10. The sea route to India was discovered by the

English

French

Dutch

Portuguese