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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

Who was the Collector of Bhagalpur in the 1780s?

Options:

Warren Hastings

Robert Clive

Lord Cornwallis

Augustus Cleveland

Correct Answer:

Augustus Cleveland

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4 - Augustus Cleveland

Augustus Cleveland was the Collector of Bhagalpur in the 1780s.

By the 1780s, Augustus Cleveland, the Collector of Bhagalpur, proposed a policy of pacification. Paharia chiefs were given an annual allowance and made responsible for the proper conduct of their men.

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