Q. 1) Which of the following Acts had provision of Indian Civil Services recruitment on the basis of competitive examination?
(a) Charter Act of 1813
(b) Government of India Act, 1858
(c) Charter Act of 1853
(d) Charter Act of 1833
Q. 2) Who among the following was the counter part of Tipu Sultan during the Treaty of Seringapatnam?
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Robert Clive
(c) Cornwallis
(d) Dalhousie
Q. 3) Which of the following Governor-General introduced the services of Railway and telegraph systems?
(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Lord Bentinck
Q.4) Which of the following is correctly matched?
(a) Third Battle of Panipat: 1764
(b) Regulating Act: 1773
(c) Pitt’s India Act: 1761
(d) Treaty of Allahabad: 1784
Q.5) Who among the following Indian cracks the British Indian Civil Services Examination in thr first time of Indian Histroy?
(a) Satyendranath Tagore
(b) R. C. Dutt
(c) Behari Lal Gupta
(d) Surendranath Banerjee
Answers-
Ans.1 (a), Charter Act of 1853. Indian Civil Service (ICS) was introduced by the Charter act of 1853. The coveted civil services were open to the Indians also.20 Dec 2023.
Ans.2 (C), The Treaty of Seringapatam (also called Srirangapatinam or Srirangapatna), signed 18 March 1792, ended the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Its signatories included Lord Cornwallis on behalf of the British East India Company, representatives of the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maratha Empire, and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore.
Ans.3 ( B), Lord Dalhousie was the British Governor-General who introduced railways in India: He served as Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. He is popularly known as the “father of the Indian railway”. Passenger trains in railways, electric telegraph, and uniform postage in India were introduced during his tenure.
Ans.4 (B), The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761, The regulating Act of 1773 is correct. Pitt’s India Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to address the shortcomings of the Regulating Act of 1773 by, The Mughal emperor Shah Alam hands over the treaty of Allahabad to Robert Clive which transferred tax collecting rights in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the East India Company, August 1765.
Ans.5 (a), Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian who passed the Indian Civil Service Examination in June 1863.
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