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Which of the following raw materials were forced to export by India?
a) Raw cotton                     
b) Silk
c) both a & b                       
d) Gypsum

c

Grand Trunk Road was runs from Calcutta to
a) Lahore                                             
b) Delhi
c) Peshawar                         
d) Bengal

b

Grand Trunk Road was improved in…
a) 1830
b) 1860                 
c) 1850
d) 1840

c

In which of the following year passenger train was started in India?
a) 1849 
b) 1859                 
c) 1860
d) 1876

b

Charles Wood was the President of Board of East India Company. He presented his educational plan in 1854 which was known as
a) Woods Dispatch
b) Woods Awareness
c) Woods access to education
d) Woods knowledge

a

Explanation:Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control of the English East India Company, had an important effect on spreading English learning and female education in India. In 1854 he sent a despatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India.



Lord Macaulay was a British historian and politician. He was appointed as head of which committee?
a) Political Affairs                              
b) Educational
c) Tax Reforms                   
d) Legal Affairs

b