Skip to content Home Questions Play Progress Daily Challenge Questions › History › Modern Indian History › British Acts and Policies Questions QUESTION Which British-era census is commonly cited as the last published comprehensive caste-census baseline, rather than the last census in which caste information was collected? Open question → QUESTION Which state entered Wellesley’s Subsidiary Alliance system in 1798, before the other states listed here? Open question → QUESTION The Charter Act of 1813 extended the East India Company's rule in India to another _____ years. Open question → QUESTION Consider the following statements about Bengal’s Dual Government: 1. Robert Clive introduced the system in 1765. 2. The Company exercised Diwani rights while Nizamat… Open question → QUESTION In which year was the Defence of India Act associated with the First World War enacted? Open question → QUESTION Consider the following colonial laws in India: 1. The Rowlatt Act, 1919 allowed the government to detain people without trial for up to five… Open question → QUESTION Consider the following statements regarding the Caste Disabilities Removal Act (Lex Loci Act) of 1850: 1. The Act gave converts to Christianity the right… Open question → QUESTION What was the most controversial feature of the Rowlatt Acts of 1919 that sparked widespread nationalist protests in India? Open question → QUESTION The Charter Act of 1833 elevated the Governor-General of Bengal to the position of Governor-General of which entity? Open question → QUESTION How did the provincial administrations of Bombay and Madras react to the 1839 Draft Act concerning slavery? Open question → QUESTION Which strategic reform was proposed by the Wood's Despatch of 1854 to restructure the administrative framework of education in India? Open question → QUESTION The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was an agreement between which two political organisations in India? Open question → QUESTION The English Education Act of 1835 was enacted following the recommendations given in the famous minute written by which of the following individuals? Open question → QUESTION In his book History of British India, which historian presented a classification of Indian history into three phases—Hindu, Muslim, and British? Open question → QUESTION Which English monarch issued the Royal Charter in 1600, granting the East India Company the sole privilege of trading with the East Indies? Open question → QUESTION With the introduction of the new judicial arrangement by the British in 1772, which of the following types of courts were established in every… Open question → QUESTION In which year did the British administration introduce the Mahalwari System in India? Open question → QUESTION Who developed and extended the ryotwari system after its initial experiments under Alexander Read? Open question → QUESTION Which legislative measure first granted separate electorates to Muslims during the British period in India? Open question → QUESTION Consider the following statements about changes in 1858: I. The Government of India Act transferred government from the East India Company to the Crown.… Open question → QUESTION During British rule in India, the Arms Act regulating possession of weapons was enacted in which year? Open question → QUESTION Which of these became a major commercial plantation crop in Assam under British rule? Open question → QUESTION Under the Subsidiary Alliance system introduced by the British, what was a key obligation imposed on allied Indian rulers? Open question → QUESTION The main objective behind Lord Cornwallis introducing the Permanent Settlement in Bengal in 1793 was to: Open question → Home Questions Play Progress 