Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonial cities

Question:

Match the following options correctly:

List- I

List- II

(A) The University Library clock tower

(I) Horniman Circle

(B) The Elphinstone circle

(II) Settlement for Christian boatmen

(C) Chintadripet

(III) Rajabai Tower

(D) Royapuram

(IV) Area meant for weavers

Options:

(A)- I, (B)- III, (C)- IV, (D)- II

(A)- II, (B)- I, (C)- IV, (D)- III

(A)- III, (B)- I, (C)- IV, (D)- II

(A)- IV, (B)- I, (C)- II, (D)- III

Correct Answer:

(A)- III, (B)- I, (C)- IV, (D)- II

Explanation:

The University Library clock tower was similarly funded by the banker Premchand Roychand and was named after his mother as Rajabai Tower.
Indian merchants were happy to adopt the neo-Gothic style since they believed that building styles, like many ideas brought in by the English, were progressive and would help make Bombay into a modern city.

Another group of commercial buildings, built during the cotton boom of the 1860s, was the Elphinstone Circle. Subsequently, named Horniman Circle after an English editor who courageously supported Indian nationalists, this building was inspired by models in Italy.

The new Black Town resembled traditional Indian towns, with living quarters built across its own temple and bazaar. On the narrow lane that crisscrossed the township, there were distinct caste-specific neighbourhoods. Chintadripet was an area meant for weavers. Washermanpet was a colony of dyers and bleachers of cloth. Royapuram was a settlement for Christian boatmen who worked for the company.