Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Rebels and the Raj

Question:

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

List 1 List 2
(a) Battle of Chinhat   (i) Joseph Noel Paton
(b) Introduced Western Education  (ii) Henry Lawrence 
(c)  Subsidiary Alliance  (iii) Lord William Bentinck
(d)  In Memoriam  (iv) Lord Wellesley
Options:

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

The Battle of Chinhat was between British forces and Indian rebels, at Chinhat (or Chinhut), Oude (Awad/Oudh). The British were led by The Chief Commissioner of Oude, Sir Henry Lawrence.

Governor General Lord William Bentinck, the British adopted policies aimed at “reforming” Indian society by introducing Western education, Western ideas and Western institutions.

Subsidiary Alliance was a system devised by Lord Wellesley in 1798. All those who entered into such an alliance with the British had to accept certain terms and conditions mentioned by the Britishers. 

Joseph Noel Paton painted the famous painting In Memoriam.