Practice Questions: 1707 to 1857

Modern Indian History MCQ-style practice questions with answers on the Mughal decline, Plassey, Buxar, Mysore and Maratha wars, land revenue, reforms and the Revolt of 1857.

1. Who was the Mughal emperor when Nadir Shah invaded India?
2. Which battle was fought on 23 June 1757?
3. Who was defeated at the Battle of Buxar (1764), apart from Mir Qasim?
4. What did the Treaty of Allahabad (1765) give the Company?
5. Who introduced the Permanent Settlement, and in which year?
6. Which Governor-General introduced the Subsidiary Alliance?
7. Which was the first state to accept the Subsidiary Alliance?
8. Which treaty ended the Third Anglo-Mysore War?
9. Tipu Sultan died in which year and at which place?
10. Which treaty ended the First Anglo-Maratha War?
11. Who was the last Peshwa?
12. Which treaty (1809) fixed the Sutlej as the boundary of Ranjit Singh's kingdom?
13. Which battle decided the Second Anglo-Sikh War?
14. Who annexed the Punjab, and in which year?
15. Which Doctrine was used to annex Jhansi, Satara and Nagpur?
16. Which state was annexed in 1856 on the charge of misgovernance?
17. Who was called the "Father of the Civil Services in India"?
18. Which revenue system was introduced by Thomas Munro?
19. Who wrote Poverty and Un-British Rule in India?
20. Which Governor-General abolished sati, and in which year?
21. Which Despatch is called the "Magna Carta of English Education in India"?
22. Who founded the Brahmo Sabha in 1828?
23. Which law legalised widow remarriage (1856)?
24. Who led the Santhal Hool (1855)?
25. On which date did the Revolt of 1857 begin at Meerut?

Answers

1. Muhammad Shah (Rangila), in 1739.
2. Battle of Plassey.
3. Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh and Shah Alam II.
4. The Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
5. Lord Cornwallis, 1793.
6. Lord Wellesley.
7. Hyderabad (1798).
8. Treaty of Seringapatam (1792).
9. 1799, at Seringapatam.
10. Treaty of Salbai (1782).
11. Baji Rao II.
12. Treaty of Amritsar (1809).
13. Battle of Gujrat (1849).
14. Lord Dalhousie, 1849.
15. Doctrine of Lapse.
16. Awadh.
17. Lord Cornwallis.
18. Ryotwari.
19. Dadabhai Naoroji.
20. Lord William Bentinck, 1829.
21. Wood's Despatch (1854).
22. Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
23. Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856.
24. Sidhu and Kanhu.
25. 10 May 1857.