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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Rebels and the Raj

Question:

Arrange the following British officers in a chronological order of their Governor-Generalship in India :

(A) Lord Canning
(B) Lord Wellesley
(C) Lord Cornwallis
(D) Warren Hastings
(E) Lord Dalhousie

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Options:

(D), (B), (C), (A), (E)

(D), (C), (B), (E), (A)

(C), (D), (B), (A), (E)

(B), (C), (D), (A), (E)

Correct Answer:

(D), (C), (B), (E), (A)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → (D), (C), (B), (E), (A)

The correct chronological order is:

(D) Warren Hastings (1773–1785)
(C) Lord Cornwallis (1786–1793)
(B) Lord Wellesley (1798–1805)
(E) Lord Dalhousie (1848–1856)
(A) Lord Canning (1856–1862)

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