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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

Match the following options in List 1 correctly with those in List 2:

List 1

List 2

(a) Calcutta Alipore Zoo

(i) Thomas Gainsborough

(b) Charles Cornwallis' painting

(ii) Francis Buchanan

(c) 1765

(iii) Report of The Deccan Riots Commission presented.

(d) 1878

(iv) Diwani of Bengal

 

Options:

(a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iii, (d) iv

(a)- i, (b)- ii, (c)- iv, (d) iii

(a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) iii

(a)- ii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d) iii

Correct Answer:

(a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) iii

Explanation:

Francis Buchanan, during his stay in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), organized a zoo that became the Calcutta Alipore Zoo.

Charles Cornwallis' painting was painted by Thomas Gainsborough, 1785. 

East India Company acquired Diwani of Bengal in 1765.

In 1877, the government constituted the Deccan Riot inquiry commission. The commission produced a report that was presented to the British Parliament in 1878.

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