Governors-General and Viceroys of British India - 03
201. Name Who refused to meet the Congress deputation led by its president in 1904?Curzon
202. The first to start a portfolio system in British India:
Canning
203. The first Viceroy of India who passed away while in power:
Elgin I
204. During whose tenure as the Viceroy of India was the great martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged?
Lord Irwin
205. During whose tenure Ghaddar Party was formed?
Hardinge II
206. Name the acting Viceroy and Governor-General who succeeded Mayo?
John Strachey
207. Name the India Viceroy when the Second World War was started:
Linlithgow
208. Name the Viceroy at the time of the formation of Chamber of Princes: Chelmsford
209. The former India Viceroy who was assassinated in a bomb blast in 1979: Mountbatten
210. The Governor-General and Viceroy who died in Dharamsala of a heart attack while crossing a mountain bridge:
Elgin I
211. The last Governor-General of East India Company:
Canning
212. The last Viceroy of British India-
Mountbatten
213. Name Who conceded to the demand of separate electorate to Muslims:
Minto II
214. The Viceroy at the time of Pune Pact:
Wellington
215. The Viceroy at the time of the demise of George V, the emperor of British India:
Wellington
216. The Viceroy during the Dandi March of Gandhiji:
Irwin
217. The Viceroy during the partition of Bengal:
Curzon
218. The Viceroy during the second Anglo-Afghan war:
Lytton
219. The Viceroy during whose reign Indian Coinage and Paper Currency Act was passed:
Curzon
220. The Viceroy during whose tenure the Defence of India Act was passed in 1915:
Hardinge II
221. The Viceroy during whose tenure the new Central Legislative Assembly Buiding was inaugurated:
Irwin
222. The viceroy Lord Irwin escaped unhurt from a bomb blast in Delhi-Agra route in 1929 who thanked God for the narrow escape, condemned the revolutionary act through his article ‘The Cult of Bomb’?
Mahatma Gandhi
223. The Viceroy of British India during the formation of Indian National Congress-
Dufferin
224. The Viceroy of British India who published ‘The Annals of Rural Bengal” and “A Comparative Dictionary of the NonAryan Languages of India”:
Ripon
225. The Viceroy of British India who resigned over the question of Egypt:
Ripon
226. The Viceroy of India during the Indigo revolt of 1859-60:
Canning
227. The Viceroy of India when the Congress Socialist Party was established? Wellington
228. The Viceroy of India when the ‘Imperial Legislative Council’ was brought into existence?
Canning
229. The viceroy of India who was a poet, novelist and an essayist of repute:
Lytton
230. The Viceroy of India who wrote a novel titled Lucile in 1860:
Lytton
231. The Viceroy to whom Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter in 1930 putting him before an eleven point programme?
Irwin
232. The Viceroy when Aligarh Muslim University (1920) was established: Chelmsford
233. The Viceroy when Arms Act was introduced in 1878:
Lytton
234. The Viceroy when the British Parliament passed the Indian Independence Bill:
Mountbatten
235. The Viceroy when Bundelkhand and Rajputana were affected by famines?
John Lawrence
236. The Viceroy when Burma was separated from India in 1937:
Linlithgow
237. The Viceroy when Cripps’ Mission visited India:
Linlithgow
238. Name Who delegated W.W.Hunter to prepare the ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India’?
Mayo
239. The Viceroy during the INA Trial at Red Fort:
Wavell
240. The Viceroy during the Mopla revolt of 1921:
Reading
241. The Viceroy during the Naval Mutiny of 1946:
Wavell
242. The only Viceroy of British India who was assassinated:
Mayo
243. The revolutionary who issued a ‘Yugantar Circular’ praising the attack on Lord Hardinge on 23rd December 1912:
Lala Hardayal
244. The second Viceroy of India:
Elgin I
245. The Viceroy at the time of Bardoli Satyagraha by Sardar Patel:
Irwin
Irwin
217. The Viceroy during the partition of Bengal:
Curzon
218. The Viceroy during the second Anglo-Afghan war:
Lytton
219. The Viceroy during whose reign Indian Coinage and Paper Currency Act was passed:
Curzon
220. The Viceroy during whose tenure the Defence of India Act was passed in 1915:
Hardinge II
221. The Viceroy during whose tenure the new Central Legislative Assembly Buiding was inaugurated:
Irwin
222. The viceroy Lord Irwin escaped unhurt from a bomb blast in Delhi-Agra route in 1929 who thanked God for the narrow escape, condemned the revolutionary act through his article ‘The Cult of Bomb’?
Mahatma Gandhi
223. The Viceroy of British India during the formation of Indian National Congress-
Dufferin
224. The Viceroy of British India who published ‘The Annals of Rural Bengal” and “A Comparative Dictionary of the NonAryan Languages of India”:
Ripon
225. The Viceroy of British India who resigned over the question of Egypt:
Ripon
226. The Viceroy of India during the Indigo revolt of 1859-60:
Canning
227. The Viceroy of India when the Congress Socialist Party was established? Wellington
228. The Viceroy of India when the ‘Imperial Legislative Council’ was brought into existence?
Canning
229. The viceroy of India who was a poet, novelist and an essayist of repute:
Lytton
230. The Viceroy of India who wrote a novel titled Lucile in 1860:
Lytton
231. The Viceroy to whom Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter in 1930 putting him before an eleven point programme?
Irwin
232. The Viceroy when Aligarh Muslim University (1920) was established: Chelmsford
233. The Viceroy when Arms Act was introduced in 1878:
Lytton
234. The Viceroy when the British Parliament passed the Indian Independence Bill:
Mountbatten
235. The Viceroy when Bundelkhand and Rajputana were affected by famines?
John Lawrence
236. The Viceroy when Burma was separated from India in 1937:
Linlithgow
237. The Viceroy when Cripps’ Mission visited India:
Linlithgow
238. Name Who delegated W.W.Hunter to prepare the ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India’?
Mayo
239. The Viceroy during the INA Trial at Red Fort:
Wavell
240. The Viceroy during the Mopla revolt of 1921:
Reading
241. The Viceroy during the Naval Mutiny of 1946:
Wavell
242. The only Viceroy of British India who was assassinated:
Mayo
243. The revolutionary who issued a ‘Yugantar Circular’ praising the attack on Lord Hardinge on 23rd December 1912:
Lala Hardayal
244. The second Viceroy of India:
Elgin I
245. The Viceroy at the time of Bardoli Satyagraha by Sardar Patel:
Irwin
246. The Viceroy at the time of Chittagong Armoury Raid:
Irwin
247. Name Who set up forest department for utilization of forest resources? Canning
248. The Viceroy at the time of Kakori Train Dacoity (1925):
Reading
249. The Viceroy at the time of launching of Quit India Movement:
Linlithgow
250. The Viceroy when the Muslim League was formed in 1906:
Minto II
251. The Viceroy when Nehru Report was presented:
Irwin
252. The Viceroy when the Rowlatt Act was passed?
Chelmsford
253. The Viceroy when Sharda Act, which raised the marriageable age, was passed?
Irwin
254. The Viceroy when the Doctrine of Lapse was officially withdrawn:
Canning
255. Who appointed Aitchison Commission on the Public Services in India?
Dufferin
256. Who appointed University Commission in 1902 under Sir Thomas Roe: Curzon
257. Who authored ‘My Indian Years’:
Hardinge II
258. Who created North-West Frontier Province in 1901 directly under the Government of India:
Curzon
259. Who earned the nickname ‘Clemency’?
Canning
260. Who established two colleges for the education and political training of the Indian Princes:
Mayo
261. Who formed the ‘Safety Valve Theory-
Dufferin
262. Who introduced Budget system in India:
Canning
263. Who introduced Famine Code in 1880?
Ripon
264. Who introduced financial decentralisation?
Mayo
265. Who introduced Forward Policy:
Lytton
266. Who is known as the father of Local Self Government:
Ripon
267. Who made August Offer:
Linlithgow
268. Who made the ‘Deepavali Declaration’:
Irwin
269. Who opened the telegraph link between India and Europe?
John Lawrence
270. Who published “The Imperial Gazetteer of India”:
Ripon
271. Who repealed the Rowlatt Act:
Lord Reading
272. Who resigned after the difference of opinion with Lord Kitchener:
Curzon
273. Who restored the right of the Indian Princes to adopt their heirs?
Canning
274. Who suggested the formation of an Indian Privy Council of bigger Indian states to share views with Viceroy on matters of common interest:
Lytton
275. Who suggested the formation of ‘Council of ruling princes’:
Lord Curzon
Irwin
247. Name Who set up forest department for utilization of forest resources? Canning
248. The Viceroy at the time of Kakori Train Dacoity (1925):
Reading
249. The Viceroy at the time of launching of Quit India Movement:
Linlithgow
250. The Viceroy when the Muslim League was formed in 1906:
Minto II
251. The Viceroy when Nehru Report was presented:
Irwin
252. The Viceroy when the Rowlatt Act was passed?
Chelmsford
253. The Viceroy when Sharda Act, which raised the marriageable age, was passed?
Irwin
254. The Viceroy when the Doctrine of Lapse was officially withdrawn:
Canning
255. Who appointed Aitchison Commission on the Public Services in India?
Dufferin
256. Who appointed University Commission in 1902 under Sir Thomas Roe: Curzon
257. Who authored ‘My Indian Years’:
Hardinge II
258. Who created North-West Frontier Province in 1901 directly under the Government of India:
Curzon
259. Who earned the nickname ‘Clemency’?
Canning
260. Who established two colleges for the education and political training of the Indian Princes:
Mayo
261. Who formed the ‘Safety Valve Theory-
Dufferin
262. Who introduced Budget system in India:
Canning
263. Who introduced Famine Code in 1880?
Ripon
264. Who introduced financial decentralisation?
Mayo
265. Who introduced Forward Policy:
Lytton
266. Who is known as the father of Local Self Government:
Ripon
267. Who made August Offer:
Linlithgow
268. Who made the ‘Deepavali Declaration’:
Irwin
269. Who opened the telegraph link between India and Europe?
John Lawrence
270. Who published “The Imperial Gazetteer of India”:
Ripon
271. Who repealed the Rowlatt Act:
Lord Reading
272. Who resigned after the difference of opinion with Lord Kitchener:
Curzon
273. Who restored the right of the Indian Princes to adopt their heirs?
Canning
274. Who suggested the formation of an Indian Privy Council of bigger Indian states to share views with Viceroy on matters of common interest:
Lytton
275. Who suggested the formation of ‘Council of ruling princes’:
Lord Curzon
276. Who suggested the formation of the Imperial Advisory Council:
Minto II
277. Who survived a bomb explosion at Chandni Chowk in New Delhi in 1912: Hardinge II
278. Who took steps for the restoration of Mysore, which had been annexed by William Bentick on the charge of misgovernment, to its ruling family after 50 years of British administration
Ripon
279. Who unified the armies of the three Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras under a single leadership in1895
Lord Elgin II
280. Who used to write poems with the pen name ‘Owen Meredith’:
Lytton
281. Who resigned after the Afghan issue in 1876:
Northbrook
282. Who was responsible for the economic distress caused by abolishing the Tax on the foreign cotton coming to India, to safeguard the British Traders:
Lytton
283. Who wrote the book ‘Problems of the Far East: Japan Korea - China’?
Curzon
284. Whom the Shimla Deputation led by Aga Khan met in 1906?
Minto II
285. Whose reign witnessed Swadeshi Movement:
Minto II
286. Whose tenure witnessed the Orissa famine of 1866:
John Lawrence
287. Whose tenure witnessed the Panjdeh incident:
Dufferin
288. Whose tenure witnessed the White mutiny by European troops in 1859? Canning
289. Under whose Governor Generalship it was decided that River Oxus should be fixed as a boundary between the Russian and British spheres of influence?
Mayo
290. Where All India Women’s Federation established Lady Irwin College in 1926? Delhi
291. Which agitation was ended as a result of Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
Civil Disobedience movement
292. Who compared Curzon to Aurangazeb?
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
293. Who denounced Congress as a ‘microscopic minority’?
Dufferin
294. Who has the longest tenure as the Viceroy of British India:
Linlithgow
295. The Viceroy when Federal Court was established in 1937:
Linlithgow
296. The Viceroy when Gandhiji launched Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930: Irwin
297. The Viceroy when Indian Air Force was formed:
Wellington
298. The Viceroy when Jinnah suggested ‘Fourteen Principles’:
Irwin
299. Who is regarded as the most popular Viceroy that England ever sent to India?
Ripon
300. Who laid the foundation of the campus of Benarus Hindu University?
Lord Hardinge II
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Minto II
277. Who survived a bomb explosion at Chandni Chowk in New Delhi in 1912: Hardinge II
278. Who took steps for the restoration of Mysore, which had been annexed by William Bentick on the charge of misgovernment, to its ruling family after 50 years of British administration
Ripon
279. Who unified the armies of the three Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras under a single leadership in1895
Lord Elgin II
280. Who used to write poems with the pen name ‘Owen Meredith’:
Lytton
281. Who resigned after the Afghan issue in 1876:
Northbrook
282. Who was responsible for the economic distress caused by abolishing the Tax on the foreign cotton coming to India, to safeguard the British Traders:
Lytton
283. Who wrote the book ‘Problems of the Far East: Japan Korea - China’?
Curzon
284. Whom the Shimla Deputation led by Aga Khan met in 1906?
Minto II
285. Whose reign witnessed Swadeshi Movement:
Minto II
286. Whose tenure witnessed the Orissa famine of 1866:
John Lawrence
287. Whose tenure witnessed the Panjdeh incident:
Dufferin
288. Whose tenure witnessed the White mutiny by European troops in 1859? Canning
289. Under whose Governor Generalship it was decided that River Oxus should be fixed as a boundary between the Russian and British spheres of influence?
Mayo
290. Where All India Women’s Federation established Lady Irwin College in 1926? Delhi
291. Which agitation was ended as a result of Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
Civil Disobedience movement
292. Who compared Curzon to Aurangazeb?
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
293. Who denounced Congress as a ‘microscopic minority’?
Dufferin
294. Who has the longest tenure as the Viceroy of British India:
Linlithgow
295. The Viceroy when Federal Court was established in 1937:
Linlithgow
296. The Viceroy when Gandhiji launched Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930: Irwin
297. The Viceroy when Indian Air Force was formed:
Wellington
298. The Viceroy when Jinnah suggested ‘Fourteen Principles’:
Irwin
299. Who is regarded as the most popular Viceroy that England ever sent to India?
Ripon
300. Who laid the foundation of the campus of Benarus Hindu University?
Lord Hardinge II
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