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  • 1. 
    In the year 1765, in India

  • The British Govt, ruled most of the country
  • East India Company ruled most parts of India
  • Indian princes ruled most of the country
  • The Mughals ruled the whole country

  • 2. 
    From 1757 to 1849, there was no peace in India because

  • the Indian Princes kept fighting each other
  • the East India Company was cruel
  • Tipu Sultan fought the British
  • there were Hindu-Muslim riots

  • 3. 
    The business community welcomed the British because

  • they liked Europeans
  • they disliked their own countrymen
  • the British rule had brought a degree of peace
  • they were afraid of the British

  • 4. 
    The worst sufferers under the British rule were

  • who served in East India Company
  • the business community
  • the religious leaders
  • the poor farmers and artisans

  • 5. 
    In the early nineteenth century Raja Ram Mohan Roy was

  • an able fighter
  • an important reformer
  • a great religious person
  • a great king

  • 6. 
    Under Regulation III of the British rulers

  • Indians were to pay higher taxes
  • British goods became cheap
  • cotton-wearers became poor
  • Indians could be jailed without trial in a court.

  • 7. 
    Between 1822 and 1836 ___ people died of starvation in India. (a) ten thousand

  • 8. 
    What did the British impose on the Indian farmers?

  • Heavy taxes
  • Service taxes
  • Regulation II
  • Regulation III

  • 9. 
    What was the value of the British goods exported to India in 1829?

  • Five crores
  • Six crores
  • Seven crores
  • Eight crores

  • 10. 
    Which Englishman reported the plight of India to England?

  • Babington Macaulay
  • General Bentinck
  • William Jones
  • Simon John
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