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Governors General and Viceroys of British India - Questions and Answers 01

Governors-General and Viceroys of British India -01


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1. Who was the Viceroy when the General Election was held in all the provinces of British India in 1937?
(a)Mountbatten (b) Linlithgo
(c) Wavell (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (b)

2. In World War One this person was wounded in the Battle of Ypres in 1915 and lost an eye. Later he became Viceroy of India. His name is:
(a)Mountbatten (b) Curzon
(c) Wellington (d) Wavell
Answer: (d)

3.The Viceroy who had been the Commander in Chief of the Indian Army:
(a)Linlithgo (b) Wavell
(c) Mountbatten (d) Irwin
Answer: (b)

4.The Viceroy who was later killed by a bomb planed in his boat by the Provisional IRA at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland in 1979:
(a)Irwin (b) Wavell
(c) Wellington (d) Mountbatten
Answer: (d)

5. Mountbatten stepped down from the position of Governor-General of Independent India in:
(a)1948 (b) 1947
(c) 1949 (d) 1950
Answer: (a)

6.The Governor-General who had lost his left hand in the Napoleonic wars:
(a)Warren Hastings (b) Hardinge I
(c) William Bentick (d) Wellesley
Answer: (b)

7.The Viceroy who  believed in free trade and abolished all export duties except those on rice, oil, indigo and lac:
(a)Northbrook (b) Dufferin
(c) Mayo (d) Lytton
Answer: (a)

8.The Viceroy who inaugurated a new province known as the North-West Frontier:
(a)Dufferin (b) Rippon
(c) Curzon (d) Hardinge II
Answer: (c)

9. The college established by the British at Ajmer was named after the Viceroy:
(a)Mayo (b) Rippon
(c) Curzon (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (a)

10. Who suppressed the mutiny of Wahabis:
(a)Canning (b) Mayo
(c) Elgin I (d) Dufferin
Answer: (c)

11. Who was the Viceroy when Prince of Wales visited India in 1921?
(a)Handing II (b) Reading
(c) Linlithgo (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (b)

12. Who was the Viceroy when Queen Victoria passed away?
(a) Rippon (b) Dufferin
(c) Hardinge II (d) Curzon
Answer: (d)

13.The Viceroy who was resigned after the Afghan issue in 1876:
(a)Dufferin (b) Northbrook
(c) Curzon (d) Canning
Answer: (b)

14. Who was the Viceroy when Edward VII was declared as the emperor of India?
(a)Curzon (b) Rippon
(c) Hardinge II (d) Minto II
Answer: (a)

15. Who was the Governor-General when the first telegraph line was established between Kolkata and Agra?
(a)Canning (b) Minto
(c) Dalhousie (d) William Bentick
Answer: (c)

16. Who was the Governor-General when the first railway line was established between Bombay and Thane?
(a)William Bentick (b) Curzon
(c) Dufferin (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (d)

17. Name the Governor-General who is called the “Maker of Modern India”:
(a)Canning (b) William Bentick
(c) Dalhousie (d) Curzon
Answer: (c)

18. Who was the Governor-General during the Sepoy Mutiny?
(a)Canning (b) Dalhousie
(c) Dufferin (d) Minto I
Answer: (a)

19. Who was the Governor-General when the Universities of Kolkata, Bombay and Madras were established?
(a)Dufferin (b) Hastings
(c) Canning (d) Mayo
Answer: (c)

20.The Viceroy when Vernacular Press Act was introduced?
(a)Lytton (b) Ripon
(c) Dufferin (d) Curzon
Answer: (a)

21. Who repealed the Vernacular Press Act?
(a)Dufferin (b) Mayo
(c) Ripon (d) Hardinge I
Answer: (c)

22. Who was the Viceroy when Queen Victoria was declared as the Empress of India in 1877?
(a) Lytton (b) Dufferin
(c)  Canning (d) Reading
Answer: (a)

23.The Viceroy of India during the Delhi Durbar of 1877:
(a)Wellesley (b) Lytton
(c) Dufferin (d) Curzon
Answer: (b)

24. Name the Governor-General who was called ‘Akbar of British India’?
(a)Wellesley (b) Curzon
(c) William Bentick (d) Dufferin
Answer: (a)

25. Who was the Viceroy when Indian National Congress was formed in 1885?
(a)Dufferin (b) Reading
(c) Mayo (d) Curzon
Answer: (a)

26.The Viceroy during the partition of Bengal:
(a)Hardinge II (b) Minto I
(c) Curzon (d) Reading
Answer: (c)

27.Who was the Governor-General when Pitt’s India Act was passed?
(a)Warren Hastings(b) Cornwallis
(c) Wellesley (d) Minto I
Answer: (a)

28.Who was the first Governor-General of British India?
(a)Wellesley (b) Robert Clive
(c) Warren Hastings (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (c)

29.The Governor-General during the second Mysore War:
(a) Hastings, I (b) Warren Hastings
(c) Cornwallis (d) Wellesley
Answer: (b)

30.Who was the Governor-General when Tipu Sultan was defeated and killed in the Fourth Mysore War?
(a)Cornwallis (b) Hastings I
(c) Warren Hastings (d) Wellesley
Answer: (d)

31.The Governor-General during the Third Mysore War:
(a)Warren Hastings(b) Cornwallis
(c) Wellesley (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (b)

32.Who was the Governor-General when Treaty of Amritsar was signed between Renjith Singh and the East India Company?
(a)Minto I (b) Lord Hastings
(c) Cornwallis (d) George Barlow
Answer: (a)

33.The Viceroy when the partition of Bengal was repealed in 1911:
(a) Minto, I (b) Hardinge II
(c) Chelmsford (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (b)

34.The Viceroy when the Muslim League was formed in 1906:
(a)MintoII (b) Hardinge II
(c) Chelmsford (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (a)

35.Who was the Viceroy when King George V visited India in 1911:
(a)Curzon (b) Chelmsford
(c) Hardinge II (d) Reading
Answer: (c)

36. Who was the Viceroy when the capital of British India was transferred from Kolkata to Delhi?
(a)Hardinge II (b) Reading
(c) Chelmsford (d) Curzon
Answer: (a)

37.The Viceroy when the Rowlatt Act was passed?
(a)Hardinge II (b) Chelmsford
(c) Reading (d) Wellington
Answer: (b)

38.Who was the Governor-General when the administration of British India was transferred from East India Company to the British Crown:
(a)Dalhousie (b) Mayo
(c) Dufferin (d) Canning
Answer: (d)

39.The first Viceroy of India:
(a) Canning (b) Mayo
(c) Ripon (d) Lytton
Answer: (a)

40. Who was the Viceroy when Indian Penal Code was brought into effect?
(a)Mayo (b) Ripon
(c) Minto (d) Canning
Answer: (d)

41. Who was the Viceroy when Criminal Procedure Code was brought into effect?
(a)Dalhousie (b) William Bentick
(c) Canning (d) Mayo
Answer: (c)

42. Who was the Viceroy when the first Census was held in 1872?
(a)Mayo (b) Curzon
(c) Hardinge II (d) Minto I
Answer: (a)

43.Who was the viceroy when the first regular census was held in 1881:
(a)Ripon (b) Lytton
(c) Mayo (d) Hardinge I
Answer: (a)

44. Who was the Viceroy during the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre?
(a)Wellington (b) Hardinge II
(c) Reading (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (d)

45. Who was the Viceroy when Prince of Wales visited India in 1921?
(a)Hardinge II (b) Reading
(c) Chelmsford (d) Wellington
Answer: (c)

46.The Viceroy during the Mopla revolt of 1921:
(a)Reading (b) Hardinge II
(c) Wellington (d) Minto
Answer: (a)

47.The Viceroy during the Chauri Chaura incident:
(a)Hardinge II (b) Reading
(c) Wellington (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (b)

48. Who was the Viceroy when INC launched Quit India Movement?
(a)Wavell (b) Wellington
(c) Linlithgo (d) Irwin
Answer: (c)

49.The last Viceroy of India:
(a)Wavell (b) C Rajagopalachari
(c) Mountbatten (d) Wellington
Answer: (c)

50.The Governor-General who was impeached by the British Parliament:
(a)Warren Hastings (b) Cornwallis
(c) Wellesley (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (a) 

51.The first Governor-General of Independent India:
(a)Rajendraprasad (b) C Rajagopalachari
(c) Mountbatten (d) Wavell
Answer: (c)

52. Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by:
(a)Wellesley (b) Curzon
(c) Dalhousie (d) William Bentick
Answer: (a)

53.The Viceroy who introduced financial decentralisation?
(a)Dufferin (b) Lytton
(c) Mayo (d) Hardinge I
Answer: (c)

54.The Viceroy when the First Round Table Conference was held in 1930?
(a)Irwin (b) Reading
(c) Chelmsford (d) Wellington
Answer: (a)

55.The Viceroy during the Second and Third Round Table Conference:
(a)Reading (b) Irwin
(c) Wellington (d) Linlithgo
Answer: (c)

56. Cripp’s Mission visited India during the period of:
(a)Wavell (b) Linlithgo
(c) Wellington (d) Mountbatten
Answer: (b)

57.The Governor-General who made English as the medium of instruction:
(a)Dalhousie (b) William Bentick
(c) Warren Hastings (d) Canning
Answer: (b)

58.The Viceroy who is known as the father of Local Self Government:
(a)Lytton (b) Dufferin
(c) Curzon (d) Ripon
Answer: (d)

59. Who was the Viceroy when the Cabinet Mission visited India?
(a)Mountbatten (b) Wavell
(c) Wellington (d) Linlithgo
Answer: (b)

60. Who was the Viceroy when the interim government assumed power on 2nd September 1946?
(a)Irwin (b) Wellington
(c) Linlithgo (d) Wavell
Answer: (d)

61. Name the Viceroy who was called the “Aurangazeb of British India’?
(a)Wellesley (b) Wavell
(c) Curzon (d) Irwin
Answer: (c)

62. The Viceroy during the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly held on 9th December 1946?
(a)Mountbatten (b) Linlithgo
(c) Wavell (d) Irwin
Answer: (c)

63. Who was the Viceroy when the first Factory Act was introduced?
(a)Mayo (b) Ripon
(c) Lytton (d) Dufferin
Answer: (b)

64.The Viceroy during INA Trial:
(a)Mountbatten (b) Linlithgo
(c) Wellington (d) Wavell
Answer: (d)

65. Establishment of a separate Public Works Department in every province was during the period of:
(a)Warren Hastings  (b) Cornwallis
(c) Wellesley (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (d)

66. Who was the Viceroy when Montague- Chelmsford reforms were introduced?
(a)Montague (b) Minto
(c) Chelmsford (d) Reading
Answer: (c)

67. Who was the Viceroy when Minto-Morley reforms were introduced?
(a)Hardinge II (b) Minto
(c) Morley (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (b)

68. Who was the Viceroy when Non-Cooperation the movement was launched?
(a)Hardinge II (b) Reading
(c) Chelmsford (d) Minto II
Answer: (c)

69.The Governor-General who founded the Royal Asiatic Society:
(a)Warren Hastings (b) Cornwallis
(c) Wellesley (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (a)

70. Who was the Viceroy when Non-Cooperation movement was repealed?
(a)Chelmsford (b) Wellington
(c) Irwin (d) Reading
Answer: (d)

71. Name the Governor-General who introduced Permanent Revenue Settlement:
(a)Warren Hastings  (b) William Bentick
(c) Cornwallis  (d) Wellesley
Answer: (c)

72.The Governor-General who suppressed the Thugs:
(a)William Bentick (b) Warren Hastings
(c) Wellesley (d) Cornwallis
Answer: (a)

73.The Governor-General during the Sepoy Mutiny:
(a)Dalhousie (b) Canning
(c) William Bentick (d) Warren Hastings
Answer: (b)

74.The Governor-General during the Vellore Mutiny (1806):
(a) George Barlow (b) Warren Hastings
(c) Cornwallis (d) Wellesley
Answer: (a)

75.The only Viceroy who was assassinated:
(a) Dufferin (b) Curzon
(c) Mayo (d) Ripon
Answer: (c)

76.Who was the Viceroy when Burma was separated from India in 1937:
(a)Linlithgo (b) Reading
(c) Irwin (d) Wavell
Answer: (a)

77. Pindari Wars held during the tenure of:
(a)Lord Hastings (b) Dalhousie
(c) William Bentick (d) Cornwallis
Answer: (a)

78.The Viceroy who announced the date of transfer of power to Indian hands:
(a)Linlithgo (b) Wellington
(c) Wavell (d) Mountbatten
Answer: (d)

79. Who was the Viceroy when the British Parliament passed the Indian Independence Act?
(a)Mountbatten (b) Linlithgo
(c) Wellington (d) Wavell
Answer: (a)

80.The Viceroy when India got independence:
(a)Wavell (b) Mountbatten
(c) Wellington (d) Linlithgo
Answer: (b)

81.The Viceroy when Ramsay McDonald announced the Communal Award:
(a)Wellington (b) Irwin
(c) Reading (d) Linlithgo
Answer: (a)

82. Who was the Viceroy when INC passed a resolution demanding complete independence?
(a)Irwin (b) Reading
(c) Linlithgo (d) Wellington
Answer: (a)

83. Who was the Viceroy when Diarchy was introduced in provinces as per the Govt of India Act, 1919?
(a) Reading (b) Hardinge II
(c) Wellington (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (d)

84. Introduction of the ryotwari settlement in Madras Presidency by the governor, Thomas Munro (1820) was during the tenure of:
(a)Lord Hastings (b) Dalhousie
(c) William Bentick (d) Cornwallis
Answer: (a)

85. First Burmese War (1824-26) held during the period of:
(a)William Bentick (b) Lord Amherst
(c) Cornwallis (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (b)

86. First Afghan War (1836-42) held during the period of:
(a)Amherst (b) Dalhousie
(c) Lord Auckland (d) William Bentick
Answer: (c)

87.The Viceroy during the Dandi March of Gandhiji:
(a)Wellington (b) Chelmsford
(c) Linlithgo (d) Irwin
Answer: (d)

88. Conquest and annexation of Sind (1843) were during the period of:
(a)Lord Ellenborough (b) Amherst
(c) Auckland (d) Dufferin
Answer: (a)

89. First Sikh war (1845-46) held during the period of:
(a)Hardinge I (b) Ellenborough
(c) Lord Amherst (d) Auckland
Answer: (a)

90. Second Sikh War (1848-49) and annexation of Punjab were held during the tenure of:
(a)Warren Hastings (b) Cornwallis
(c) Wellesley (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (d)

91.The Governor-General during the ‘Nandakumar Episode’:
(a)Warren Hastings (b) Cornwallis
(c) Wellesley (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (a)

92.The Viceroy when Gandhiji launched the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930:
(a)Wellington (b) Chelmsford 
(c) Reading (d) Irwin
Answer: (d)

93.The Viceroy who made August Offer:
(a)Wellington (b) Wavell
(c) Linlithgo (d) Mountbatten
Answer: (c)

94. Who was the Viceroy when Durant line was brought into effect?
(a)Landsdowne (b) Curzon
(c) Reading (d) Rippon
Answer: (a)

95. Who was the Governor-General when Sati was prohibited?
(a)William Bentick(b) Charles Metcalfe
(c) Auckland (d) Hardinge I
Answer: (a)

96.The Governor-General when Calcutta medical college was founded:
(a)Canning (b) Cornwallis
(c) William Bentick (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (c)

97. Name the Governor-General who introduced the Doctrine of Lapse:
(a)Dalhousie (b) Canning
(c)  Charles Metcalfe (d) Hardinge I
Answer: (a)

98.The Governor-General who annexed Satara to British India, the first princely state to be annexed to British India under Doctrine of Lapse:
(a)Canning (b) Cornwallis
(c) William Bentick (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (d)

99.The Viceroy when the Doctrine of Lapse was officially withdrawn:
(a)Mayo (b) Dufferin
(c) Canning (d) Curzon
Answer: (c)

100.The Viceroy when Provincial Autonomy was introduced in 1937:
(a)Linlithgo (b) Irwin
(c) Wavell (d) Reading
Answer: (a)
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