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Q: The Maratha Empire was founded by:

A) Tipu Sultan

B) Chhatrapati Shivaji

C) Ranjit Singh

D) Hari Rai

Q: Who defeated Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Mysore War?

A) French

B) Mughals

C) British

D) Marathas

Q: The Battle of Buxar took place in:

A) 1757

B) 1764

C) 1799

D) 1857

Q: The British Raj formally began in:

A) 1757

B) 1764

C) 1858

D) 1947

Q: The first viceroy of British India was:

A) Lord Canning

B) Dalhousie

C) Wellesley

D) Ripon

Q: The Indian National Congress was founded in:

A) 1857

B) 1885

C) 1906

D) 1920

Q: The partition of Bengal was carried out in:

A) 1890

B) 1910

C) 1915

D) 1905

Q: The partition of Bengal was annulled in:

A) 1908

B) 1911

C) 1916

D) 1920

Q: Who founded the Arya Samaj?

A) Dayananda Saraswati

B) Gopal Gokhale

C) Tilak

D) Lala Lajpat Rai

Q: The All-India Muslim League was founded in:

A) Delhi

B) Aligarh

C) Dacca

D) Lucknow

Q: The Vernacular Press Act was passed by:

A) Lord Ripon

B) Lord Lytton

C) Lord Curzon

D) Lord Canning

Q: Who introduced the Ilbert Bill?

A) Lord Ripon

B) Lord Lytton

C) Lord Curzon

D) Lord Canning

Q: The British Prime Minister during the 1857 War was:

A) Disraeli

B) Gladstone

C) Pitt

D) Palmerston

Q: The founder of the Slave Dynasty was:

A) Qutbuddin Aibak

B) Iltutmish

C) Balban

D) Nasiruddin

Q: The ruler who introduced the Persian wheel in agriculture was:

A) Sher Shah

B) Akbar

C) Jahangir

D) Shah Jahan

Q: Sher Shah built the famous fort of:

A) Rohtas

B) Agra

C) Delhi

D) Jaunpur

Q: The Mughal emperor known as ‘Alamgir’ was:

A) Humayun

B) Akbar

C) Jahangir

D) Aurangzeb

Q: The East India Company got the right to collect revenue in Bengal under:

A) Treaty of Allahabad

B) Treaty of Lahore

C) Treaty of Amritsar

D) Treaty of Purandhar

Q: The Regulating Act was passed in:

A) 1757

B) 1773

C) 1800

D) 1857

Q: The Charter Act of 1833 made the Governor-General of Bengal the:

A) Emperor of India

B) Viceroy

C) Governor-General of India

D) Chief Commissioner