Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Challenges of Cultural Diversity

Question:

Which of the following was not a Presidency during the British Rule in India?

Options:

Delhi

Madras

Calcutta

Bombay

Correct Answer:

Delhi

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 1: Delhi

NCERT: After Independence, initially the Indian state continued with the British Indian arrangement dividing India into large provinces, also called ‘presidencies’. (Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta were the three major presidencies; incidentally, all three cities after which the presidencies were named have changed their names recently). These were large multi-ethnic and multilingual provincial states constituting the major political-administrative units of a semi-federal state called the Union of India. Soon after the adoption of the Constitution, all these units of the colonial era had to be reorganised into ethno-linguistic States within the Indian union in response to strong popular agitations.