Civil Services

Question 1

Who is known as the ‘Father of Indian Civil Services’ ?

Answer 1

Lord Cornwallis

Question 2

Who introduced training for civil servant? When?

Answer 2

Lord Wellesley

Question 3

Which act took away the privilege of directors to appoint the civil servants and introduced open public competition?

Answer 3

Charter Act of 1853

Question 4

Who was the first Indian to enter the Civil Sevices?

Answer 4

Satyendranath Tagore

Question 5

What were the two types of courts introduced by Hastings?

Answer 5

1. Diwani Adalat
2. Faujdari Adalat

Question 6

Diwani Adalat dealt with which type of cases?
Appeal can be made at _____

Answer 6

Civil Cases
Sadr Diwani Adalat

Question 7

Faujdari Adalat dealt with which kind of cases?
Appeal can be made at _______

Answer 7

Criminal cases
Sadr Nizamat Adalat

Question 8

Who abolished District Faujdari Adalat?

Answer 8

Lorn Cornwallis

Question 9

Under ‘this’ act, all law making authority was vested in the governor general-in-council. Which act is a talking about?

Answer 9

Charter Act of 1833

Question 10

An Indian law commission was established under the chapter act of 1833 and was headed by

Answer 10

Lord Macaulay

Question 11

What was the prime objective for establishing Indian law commission?

Answer 11

To codify the existing law

Question 12

What were the results of the 1st Indian law commission?

Answer 12

The Indian penal code and the code of civil and criminal procedure when enacted by its effort

Question 13

Hastings encouraged whom to compile a set of Hindu customary and religious laws and translate them into English? When was it published? What was it titled?

Answer 13

Nathaniel Halhed
1776
The Code of Gentoo Laws

Question 14

Who first published the English translation of Bhagavad Gita? When?

Answer 14

Charles Wilkin
1784

Question 15

When was the Asiatic society of Bengal established? Who established it?

Answer 15

1784
William Jones

Question 16

Who established the Calcutta Madrasa for the study of Persian and Arabic language? When?

Answer 16

Warren Hastings
1781

Question 17

Which act allowed missionaries to come into India and settle there under a licence?

Answer 17

Charter Act of 1813

Question 18

Who was the first English official to suppress female infanticide?

Answer 18

Jonathan Duncan, a resident of Bombay

Question 19

When was female infanticide banned officially?

Answer 19

Bengal Regulations of 1795 and 1802 (Regulation VI of 1802)

Question 20

Which famous Bengali intelligentsia actively educated for the abolition of sati?
In which journal did he write a series of article to build a strong public opinion against the custom?

Answer 20

Ram Mohan Roy
Sambad Kaumudi

Question 21

Who were the orthodox Hindus to actively oppose the initiatives of Ram Mohan Roy?

Answer 21

Kashinath Tarkavagish and Samachar Chandrika by Bhabani Charan Bandopadhyay

Question 22

When was The Hindu re-marriage Act passed?

Answer 22

1856
Regulation XV of 1856

Question 23

When was Sati abolished?

Answer 23

1829
Regulation XVII of 1829

Question 24

Evangelical propaganda against slavery was led by

Answer 24

William Wilberforce

Question 25

Which act director the Government of India to take measures for abolition of slavery?

Answer 25

Charter Act of 1833

Question 26

Which act finally abolished the system of slavery?

Answer 26

Indian Slavery Act of 1843 or Act V of 1843

Question 27

The first modern printing press in India was established at ______ in the year ______ by _____

Answer 27

Goa, 1556, Portuguese Jesuits

Question 28

The Banaras Hindu College was set up by _____ in the year ____

Answer 28

Jonathan Duncan in the year 1791

Question 29

Who founded the fort William college? When? What was its prime objective?

Answer 29

Lord Wellesley
1800
To train British administrators equipped with Oriental knowledge

Question 30

Who were the serampore trio?

Answer 30

A group of three pionearing English missionaries namely:
- William Carey
- William Ward
- Joshua Marshman

Question 31

Who founded the Hindu College at Calcutta when what was it later known as

Answer 31

Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare
March 1817
It was later known as presidency College

Question 32

Which comprehensive plan for the spread of education was considered as the Magna Carta of English education in India?

Answer 32

Wood’s Despatch of 1854

Question 33

Who founded Hindu Balika Vidyalaya? When?

Answer 33

JD Bethune
1849

Question 34

What is the name of the first engineering college in India? When was it found?

Answer 34

Thomason College of Civil Engineering, Roorkee
1847
Now IIT Roorkee