Practice Constitutional Development: Acts of 1773 to 1935 – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 2

Consider the following statements about the Regulating Act, 1773:

1. It set up a Supreme Court at Calcutta.

2. It made the Governor-General of Bengal the Governor-General of India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following was NOT a provision of Pitt's India Act, 1784?

Which Act opened India's trade to all British merchants?

Which Act laid down that no Indian would be disqualified for office by religion, birth, descent or colour?

Consider the following statements about the Charter Act, 1853:

1. It separated legislative councillors from executive councillors.

2. It provided that Company services would be filled by competitive examinations.

3. It ended the Company's trade, leaving it only political functions.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which one of the following was NOT a feature of the Government of India Act, 1858?

Bombay and Madras got back their law-making power under which Act?

Arrange the following developments in chronological order:

I. Communal electorates were extended to Sikhs.

II. Bodies in India sent names of representatives, which the government accepted.

III. Muslims were given separate electorates.

Select the correct chronological order.

Under the dyarchy of the 1919 Act, which one of the following provincial subjects is the odd one out?

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?