Q. 1] Supreme Court at Calcutta established under which of the following act?
- A. Regulating act of 1773
- B. Pitt’s India act of 1784
- C. Charter act of 1793
- D. Charter Act of 1813
Ans : A) Regulating act of 1773. This act provided for the establishment of Supreme court at Calcutta ( Established in 1774). Supreme court was comprising one Chief Justice and three other Judges.
Q. 2] Which of the following Act of British India designated the Governor-General of Bengal?
- A. Charter Act of 1793
- B. Pitt’s India Act of 1784
- C. Regulating Act, 1773
- D. Charter Act of 1813
Ans : C. Regulating Act, 1773. This act designated the Governor of Bengal as ‘Governor-General of Bengal’ and created an Executive Council of four members to assist him. The first Governor General of Bengal was Lord Warren Hastings.
Q. 3] Which of the following British Act introduces Indian Civil Service as an open competition?
- A. Charter Act of 1793
- B. Charter Act of 1853
- C. Charter Act of 1833
- D. Charter Act of 1813
Ans: B. Charter Act of 1853. This act introduced open competition system of selection and recruitment of civil servants. For this, Macaulay Committee (the committee on the Indian Civil Service) was appointed in 1854
Q. 4] Which of the following act provided for the establishment of an All India Federation consisting of provinces and princely states as Units?
- A. Indian Councils Act of 1909
- B. Government of India Act of 1919
- C. Government of India Act of 1935
- D. Indian Independence Act of 1947
Ans : C. Government of India Act of 1935
Q.5] Who was the Viceroy at the time of Simon commission visit.
- A. Lord Irwin
- B. Lord Curzon
- C. Lord Montague
- D. Lord Chelmsford
Ans : A. Lord Irwin. The Indian Statutory Commission also known as Simon Commison’, was a group of seven Members of Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon. The commission arrived in British India in 1928 to study constitutional reform in British India.
Q.6] which act separated for the first time, the legislative and executive functions of the Governor General’s Council?
- A. Charter Act of 1833
- B. Charter act of 1853
- C. Government of India act 1858
- D. Indian Councils act of 1861
Ans : B. Charter Act of 1853
Q. 7] Who was the first Governor General of the new Dominion of India?
- A. Jawaharlal Nehru
- B. Sardar vallabhbhai Patel
- C. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- D. Lord Mountbatten
Ans : D. Lord Mountbatten
Q. 8] Ramsay MacDonald , the then British Prime minister, announced Communal Award in . . . .
- A. August 1930
- B. August 1931
- C. August 1932
- D. August 1933
Ans : C. August 1932
Q. 9] who was the first Indian to Join Viceroy’s executive council as a Law member?
- A. Satyendra Nath
- B. Satyendra Prasad Sinha
- C. Subhash Chandra Bose
- D. C. Rajagopalachari
Ans : B. Satyendra Prasad Sinha
Q. 10] Which of the following is not correct about Government of India act 1935?
- A. It abolished dyarchy in the provinces.
- B. It provided for the adoption of dyarchy at the centre.
- C. It provided for the establishment of a Reserve Bank of India.
- D. It introduced a system of communal representation for muslims by accepting the concept of ‘Separate Electorate’.
Ans: D. It introduced a system of communal representation for muslims by accepting the concept of ‘Separate Electorate’. It was introduced by Indian council’s Act of 1909.
