British Rule in India Quiz

Michael O'Dwyer served as the current Governor-General of British India from 1913 to 1919. O'Dwyer had come under fire for endorsing General Dyer's decision to issue the firing order in Amritsar.

The first governor general of British-occupied India was Lord William Bentinck. Before him, the Governor of Bengal was everyone else (Fort William). Bentinck served in the House of Commons for a while after his return to England before being named Governor-General of Bengal in 1828.

Between 1880 and 1884, Lord Ripon served as a viceroy in India under British authority. He is regarded as the most liberal viceroy and is referred to as the "Good Viceroy of India." He began a number of reform initiatives as soon as he assumed office on June 8, 1880.

The British made investments in Indian plantations because they could profit greatly from them. For instance, tea was in high demand in Britain but could not be grown there. As a result, the British plantation owners could profit greatly by importing tea from India.

Lord Mountbatten served as India's final Viceroy. He was in office from 1947 to 1948.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar granted the company important trading privileges in Bengal in 1717 AD by the issuance of a royal Farman (charter), which included authorization to export and import British products in Bengal without paying taxes.

British India Society came after it in 1839. William Adam, a close friend of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, helped establish the British India Society in England in 1839.

In a stunning win, the Congress gained 758 of the around 1500 seats, and it went on to establish seven provincial governments. In the United Provinces, Bihar, the Central Provinces, Bombay, and Madras, the Congress established governments.

The Sultanate of Mysore and the East India Company engaged in battle in India during the First Anglo-Mysore War, which lasted from 1766 until 1769. The Treaty of Madras, which was signed in April 1769, put an end to the war.

The British Parliament passed the Regulating Act in 1773 (formally known as the East Indian Company Act 1772) to change how the East India Company governed India.

The British government had the right to seize the assets of newspapers, including their printing presses, under the Vernacular Press Act if the journals published anything deemed offensive or against them. It became law in 1878.

The British East India Company was given permission by the Charter Act of 1853 to hold the lands and income from India in trust for the king. It developed a system of open recruitment and selection for civil servants. The Indians were consequently given access to the covenant civil service as well.

Surat (1619), Madras (1639), Bombay (1668), and Calcutta(1690) all had trading posts established by the company.

Dadabhai Naoroji first proposed the drain of wealth theory in the 19th century. The British used India as a source of inexpensive raw materials for their own businesses during the colonial era, and this was their main reason for conquering the country.

One of the noteworthy leaders of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 was Tantia Tope, who served as general. He was born to a Marathi Deshastha Brahmin family as Ramachandra Panduranga and adopted the title Tope, which means commanding officer.

The Third Anglo-Mysore War, in which Tipu Sultan fought, led to the Treaty of Seringapatam. The signing of this treaty took place on March 18th, 1792.

The Treaty of Amritsar was signed on April 25, 1809, by Charles T. Metcalfe, representing the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, the monarch of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.

In 1874, a parliamentary act officially disbanded the East India Company. Thus came the British Raj, the British state's direct imperial dominion over India.

The partition of Bengal was attributed to administrative convenience. However, the majority of analysts feel that the separation was carried out in order to divide the Bengali population and lessen the influence of Bengali politicians.

On May 10, 1857, at Meerut, the actual Mutiny started. 85 members of the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry were freed from prison by their fellow soldiers after they had been imprisoned for refusing to use cartridges, they felt it went against their religious beliefs.