Question : Which of the following governors-general, under British rule in India, professionalised, bureaucratised and Europeanised the administration of East India Company?

Option 1: Lord Canning

Option 2: Lord Cornwallis

Option 3: Warren Hastings

Option 4: Lord Dalhousie

Question : Lord Hastings initiated the ______ where the East India Company claimed that its authority was supreme and hence its power was greater than that of Indian states.

Option 1: Government's Stores Policy

Option 2: Policy of ‘Paramountcy’

Option 3: Imperial Policy

Option 4: Doctrine of Lapse

Question : In which year did the East India Company cease to work and India was completely taken over by the British Government?

Option 1: 1838

Option 2: 1919

Option 3: 1858

Option 4: 1898

Question : The representatives of the Maratha empire and the British East India Company signed the "Treaty of Salbai" in which year?

Option 1: 1782

Option 2: 1769

Option 3: 1771

Option 4: 1758

Question : In the third Carnatic War, the British East India Company defeated the French forces at the_____ in 1760, ending almost a century of conflict over French supremacy in India.

Option 1: The Siege of Arcot

Option 2: The Battle of Adyar

Option 3: The Battle of Ambur

Option 4: The Battle of Wandiwash