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121.

Shivaji was crowned as an independent king at

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TNPSC Group 1 - 2025, TNPSC - 2025,

Answer: A

Shivaji was crowned as an independent king (Chhatrapati) at Raigad in 1674, which had been his capital since 1656 and the stronghold of his kingdom.

Surat was a Mughal port he plundered, Ahmedabad was a Mughal city, and Poona (Pune) was his early base but not the site of the coronation.

Shivaji took the title Chhatrapati at the ceremony conducted by the priest Gaga Bhatt in June 1674, and Raigad remained his capital until his death in 1680.

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122.

Assertion [A] : The company asked the Collector of Ramnad to Summon Kattabomman to his office at Ramnad.
Reason [R] : Kattabomman was asked to meet the Collector in connection with the arrears of tribute that he owed to the company.

Exam Year(s)

TNPSC Group 1 - 2025, TNPSC - 2025,

Answer: C

Both statements are true and [R] explains [A]. The company asked the Collector of Ramnad to summon Kattabomman to Ramnad, and the reason for the summons was the arrears of tribute that he owed the company.

Option (D) says the reason is not the explanation, which is wrong, because the summons was issued for the arrears. Options (A) and (B) are incomplete or deny the facts.

Veerapandiya Kattabomman was the poligar of Panchalankurichi and he was summoned to Ramnad in 1798 to answer for the arrears owed to the East India Company, where the Collector Jackson confronted him.

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123.

Which of the following statements are true regarding Vellore Mutiny?

(i) The Mutiny was lasted for eight hours.
(ii) The Mutiny was lost its importance due to local treachery.
(iii) After the Mutiny, the family of Tippu was transferred to Madras.
(iv) The British captured more than 2000 Indian Soldiers.

Exam Year(s)

TNPSC Group 1 - 2025, TNPSC - 2025,

Answer: C

Statements (i), (ii) and (iv) are true. The Vellore Mutiny of 1806 lasted about eight hours, it lost its importance because of local treachery, and the British captured more than 2,000 sepoys.

Statement (iii) is not accepted: after the mutiny the family of Tipu Sultan, who was held at Vellore, was moved to Calcutta and not to Madras. So (i), (ii) and (iv) only.

The Vellore Mutiny of 10 July 1806 was caused by new military regulations about dress, such as the turban, and it is called the first sepoy mutiny against the Company.

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124.

The battle of Plassey was fought in

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Tripura Public Service Commission - 2015,

Answer: C

The Battle of Plassey was fought in 1757.

On 23 June 1757, the East India Company's forces under Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, at Plassey (Palashi). The treachery of Mir Jafar decided the battle, and it gave the Company control of Bengal.

1764 is the year of the Battle of Buxar, which confirmed British power in Bengal and Bihar. 1857 is the year of the great revolt, and nothing of comparable note happened at Plassey in 1800.

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125.

When did Vasco-da-Gama come to India ?

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: B

Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498.

The Portuguese navigator sailed round the Cape of Good Hope and, guided across the Arabian Sea, landed at Kappad near Calicut (Kozhikode) on 20 May 1498, opening the sea route from Europe to India. He was received by the Zamorin of Calicut.

1492 is the year Columbus reached America while looking for India. 1494 and 1496 fall between those voyages and mark no arrival in India.

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126.

When was Burma separated from India ?

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: B

Burma was separated from India in 1937.

Under the Government of India Act, 1935, Burma was separated from British India and made a separate colony. The separation took effect on 1 April 1937, the same day provincial autonomy began in India.

1935 is the year of the Act and 1937 the year it came into force. 1936, 1938 and 1939 do not mark the separation.

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127.

Who of the following Prime Ministers sent Cripps Mission to India ?

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: D

The Cripps Mission was sent by Winston Churchill.

In March 1942, with Japan advancing towards India, Churchill's wartime government sent Sir Stafford Cripps to win Indian support for the war. Its offer of dominion status after the war was rejected by the Congress, and Gandhi called it a post-dated cheque.

Ramsay MacDonald was prime minister during the Round Table Conferences (1930-32) and gave the Communal Award. Stanley Baldwin was prime minister when the Government of India Act, 1935 was passed, and Neville Chamberlain from 1937 to May 1940.

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128.

With whose permission did the English set up their first factory in Surat?

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: B

The English set up their first factory at Surat with the permission of Jahangir.

After Captain Thomas Best defeated the Portuguese off Surat in 1612, Jahangir issued a farman in 1613 allowing the East India Company to establish a factory there, its first permanent base in Mughal India. Sir Thomas Roe's embassy to Jahangir (1615-19) secured further privileges.

Akbar died in 1605 before the Company had a footing in India. Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb ruled later.

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129.

Who put an end to the system of Dual Government in Bengal?

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: B

The Dual Government in Bengal was ended by Warren Hastings.

Under the system set up by Robert Clive in 1765, the East India Company held the diwani (revenue rights) while the Nawab kept nominal responsibility for administration, giving the Company power without responsibility. In 1772 Warren Hastings, as Governor of Bengal, abolished it and made the Company take over administration directly.

Clive created the system rather than ending it. The British Parliament's Regulating Act came the following year, in 1773.

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130.

First Governor-General of pre-independent India was

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: A

The first Governor-General of India was William Bentinck.

The Charter Act of 1833 converted the post of Governor-General of Bengal into Governor-General of India, and Lord William Bentinck, already in office, became the first to hold that title.

Warren Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal, under the Regulating Act of 1773, the usual trap. Robert Clive was Governor of Bengal, and Sir Charles Metcalfe only acted as Governor-General after Bentinck, in 1835-36.

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