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ICSE Class 8 Company Rule in India — practice questions

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Who introduced the arrangement called Dual Government in Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →In Bengal's administration, what did nizamat principally cover?Read the answer and worked solution →Which arrangement left Bengal's administration formally with the Nawab while the Company held revenue power?Read the answer and worked solution →Under whom did the Company take over Bengal's revenue collection directly in 1772?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Governor-General is especially associated with extending subsidiary alliances?Read the answer and worked solution →Subsidiary-allied rulers had to host which force?Read the answer and worked solution →Who normally paid for British troops stationed under a subsidiary alliance?Read the answer and worked solution →Under subsidiary terms, whose consent was needed for war?Read the answer and worked solution →Who represented the Company at a subsidiary-allied ruler's court?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the Company promise an allied ruler?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ruler accepted a subsidiary alliance with Wellesley's Company in 1798?Read the answer and worked solution →Hyderabad's 1798 alliance required replacing officers of which European power?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did the Nizam cede land under a subsidiary alliance?Read the answer and worked solution →Which arrangement shows Company indirect rule?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Governor-General vigorously applied the doctrine of lapse?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair of states was annexed under the doctrine of lapse?Read the answer and worked solution →The Company annexed Awadh in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is lapse an inaccurate explanation of Awadh's annexation?Read the answer and worked solution →What result linked lapse and subsidiary alliances?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who introduced the arrangement called Dual Government in Bengal?

  1. Lord Dalhousie
  2. Lord Wellesley
  3. Robert Clive
  4. Warren Hastings
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Correct answer: C. Robert Clive

Clive introduced Dual Government while leaving formal administrative responsibilities with the nawab's officials.

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In Bengal's administration, what did nizamat principally cover?

  1. Collection of land revenue
  2. Regulation of oceanic trade
  3. Law, order and criminal justice
  4. Appointment of the Mughal emperor
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Correct answer: C. Law, order and criminal justice

Nizamat covered law and order and criminal justice, distinct from revenue administration.

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Which arrangement left Bengal's administration formally with the Nawab while the Company held revenue power?

  1. Permanent Settlement
  2. Subsidiary Alliance
  3. Doctrine of Lapse
  4. Dual Government
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Correct answer: D. Dual Government

Dual Government separated formal administrative responsibility from the Company's effective financial power.

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