MODERN INDIAN HISTORY QUIZ -8
1. Where was the first Vasco Da
Gama reached in India:
a. Hugly
b. Calicut
c. Diu
d. Balasore
2. Who was the first governor of
Portuguese in India:
a. Francisco Almeida
b. Hawkins
c. Thomas Roe
d. Alfonso
3. In which of the following was
the first factory built by Britishers in India:
a. Calcutta
b. Masulipatnam
c. Surat
d. Odisa
4. When was the first
Anglo-Mysore war took place:
a. 1769 A.D
b. 1761 AD
c. 1760 AD
d. 1765 AD
5. When was the ‘Treaty of
Allahabad’ took place:
a. 1765 AD
b. 1764 AD
c. 1766 AD
d. 1767 AD
6. In which of the following
place the permanent settlement of 1793 was introduced:
a. Bengal
b. Bihar
c. U.P
d. Orissa
7. Who was called ‘The father of
Modern Western Education’ in India:
a. Lord Minto I
b. Lord Amherst
c. Lord William Bentick
d. Lord Hastings
8. The First official census in
India took place:
a. 1881 AD
b. 1882 AD
c. 1883 AD
d. 1884 AD
9. Which among the following
viceroy appointed the ‘Hunter commission’:
a. Lord Curzon
b. Lord Ripon
c. Lord Cripps
d. Lord Linlithgo
10. Where was the Sanskrit
College established in 1791:
a. Calcutta
b. Banaras
c. Madras
d. Delhi
ANSWERS
1.B, 2.A, 3.C, 4.A, 5.C, 6.C, 7.A, 8.A, 9.B, 10.B,
