14000+ MCQs Modern History (British Policies and Its Economic Impact in India)
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
MCQ Pattern
Date:- 15/03/2026
1. What was the consequence of the Permanent Settlement on rural society in Bengal?
2. Which was organised for the development of agriculture in 1906?
3. Consider the following statements.
I. In 1813, the East India Company Charter was renewed for twenty years.
II. The long-standing ban prohibition on missionaries was removed and the British officers allowed a rapid penetration of Christian missionary organisations into company territory.
III. An annual £ 10000 expenditure of government funds for education was allotted within the new Charter of East India Company in 1813.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
4. Who among the following was/were associated with the introduction of Ryotwari Settlement in India during the British rule?
I. Lord Cornwallis II. Alexander Read III. Thomas Munro
5. Where was the first coffee garden planted by the Britishers?
6. Lord Dalhousie planned for the construction of a network of railways in India in order to
7. In the nineteenth century, India was converted into ‘a classic colony’ by converting her as
8. Which one of the following was not a feature of railways in colonial India?
9. Which one of the following statements about the Colonial economy is not correct?
10. Which one of the following commercial centres declined after mid-eighteenth century?
11. Consider the following statements about the Permanent Settlement introduced by the East India Company’s government in 1793.
I. Under the settlement the Zamindars were granted heredity rights over land on the condition that they would pay a fixed amount of revenue to the state.
II. The Permanent Settlement was first introduced in Bengal and Bihar.
III. It was later extended to Orissa, the Northern District of Madras.
IV. Thomas Munro was the architect of the Permanent Settlement.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
12. The Ryotwari experiment in land revenue was started by
13. Statement I Dadabhai Naoroji argued that what was being drained out was ‘potential surplus’ that could generate more economic development in India if invested in India. Statement II Imperialists believed that India was brought into the large capitalist world market and that was in itself a progress towards modernisation.
14. First railway line was started in West Bengal between
15. Economically, one of the result of the British rule in India in the 19th century was the
16. Statement I The private trade of the East India Company’s officials in the 18th century had flowered with the indirect patronage of the authorities of the Company. Statement II The extra-legal power enjoyed by the foreign merchants and the duty-free nature of their private trade virtually edged the indigenous merchants out of competition.
17. The tendency for increased irrigation was visible after the introduction of the land settlement system of Lord Cornwallis in 1793. The reason for this is normally traced to which of the following provisions?
18. Consider the following events during the British rule.
I. Plundering of begums of Awadh.
II. The Permanent Settlement system in Bengal.
III. Beginning of the dual government in Bengal.
IV. Beginning of drain of wealth from India.
Which of the following is the correct chronological order of the above given events?
19. Silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. Which one among the following is not true of silk routes?
20. Assertion (A) Generally, India had a favourable balance of trade during the British rule. Reason (R) The drain of wealth took the form of unrequited exports.
21. The areas where the Mahalwari settlement was prevalent were:
22. In the Ryotwari areas of British India, the money-lenders fleeced and exploited the peasantry and usurped their lands because
23. The staple commodities of export by the English East India Company from Bengal in the middle of the 18th century were
24. Which of the following statements about the Mahalwari system is not correct?
25. Consider the following statements.
I. One significant development in the second half of the 19th century was the establishment of large-scale machine-based industries in India.
II. The first textile mill was started in Bombay by Cowasjee Nanabhoy in 1863 and the first jute mill in Sirsha (Bengal) in 1865.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
26. Which of the following statements about town planning in British India in early 19th century is/are correct?
I. The funds for town improvement were also raised through public lotteries. II. The threats of epidemics gave an impetus to town planning in the early decades of 19th century.
27. Match the land revenue settlements with the areas where they were introduced by the British in India.
| List I (Settlement) | List II (Area of Introduction) |
| A. Permanent Settlement | 1. Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, East Bengal, portions of Assam and Coorg |
| B. Ryotwari System | 2. Agra, Awadh, NWFP, ceded and conquered provinces |
| C. Mahalwari System | 3. Northern Karnataka |
| | 4. Bengal, Bihar and Orissa |
28. Who among the following leaders did not believe in the drain theory of Dadabhai Naoroji?
29. Which thinker has told the railway system of India as the “forerunner of modern Industry”?
30. What was the main reason behind the decline of the indigo industry in the 20th century?
31. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
32. British colonialism in India saw the emergence of new cities. Calcutta, now Kolkata, was one of the first cities. Which of the following villages were amalgamated to form the city of Calcutta?
33. The development of railways was started in the reign of which Governor General?
34. Which of the following was not one of the important results of the British land revenue systems?
35. Assertion (A) Within half a century of the Battle of Plassey, the phenomenal prosperity of Bengal suffered a serious set-back. Reason (R) The manufacture of cotton goods the most important item of export from India, enormously increased in other parts of India, while it declined in Bengal.
36. Which one of the following was not a result of British Colonial rule in India?
37. Who remarked in 1834 that "the bones of the cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of India"?
38. The main emphasis of the administrative machinery of the British government in India during 1757-1857 was placed on the maintenance of Law and Order. By this, the British desired to
39. Prior to 1813, which among the following measures, was not adopted by the British to exploit the Indians economically?
40. The Tinkathiya system refers to
41. The system under which the peasant himself owns the land and is responsible for payment of land revenue to the Government is known as
42. With reference to the period of colonial rule in India, ‘Home Charges’ formed an important part of drain of wealth from India. Which of the following funds constituted Home Charges?
I. Funds used to support the India Office in London. II. Funds used to pay salaries and pensions of British personnel engaged in India. III. Funds used for waging wars outside India by the British.
43. Which of the following is wrongly matched?
44. Match List I (Land Revenue Category) with List II (Associated System) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists.
| List I (Land Allotment Characteristic) | List II (Associated Revenue System) |
| A. Land allotted to big feudal landlords | 1. Jagirdari System |
| B. Land allotted to revenue farmers or rent collectors | 2. Ryotwari System |
| C. Land allotted to each peasant with the right to sublet, mortgage, gift or sell | 3. Mahalwari System |
| D. Revenue settlements made at village level | 4. Zamindari Systems |
45. Who is known as the ‘Champion of the irrigation system’ in South India?
46. Commercialisation of agriculture led to further growth of rural poverty because the peasant
47. ‘Dubla Hali’ system was practised in which region of India?
48. Who of the following was/were economic critic/critics of colonialism in India?
I. Dadabhai Naoroji II. G Subramania Iyer III. RC Dutt
49. Who is known as the father of land revenue related ‘Mahalwari Settlement’?
50. When was the trade monopoly of the East India Company ended?