Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

Colonial rule was first established in which part of India?

Options:

Bombay

Madras

Bengal

Punjab

Correct Answer:

Bengal

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Bengal

Colonial rule was first established in Bengal. It is here, in Bengal that the earliest attempts were made to reorder rural society and establish a new regime of land rights and a new revenue system.