Historical Perspective in the Sub Continent

– Multiple Choice Questions:

1. Megasthenes, in his Indica, wrote in around 302 BC, identifies local bodies as _______, and
later assumed the name Panchayat?

(a)Gram Parishads

(b)Prishadatra

(c) Gram Prishadatra

(d) None of the above

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(a)Gram Parishads

2. Panchayat literally meaning?

(a) Group of Four

(b) Group of Five

(c) Group of Six

(d) None of the above

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(b) Group of Five

3. Oldest written text of India’s recorded history?

(a) Rig Veda

(b) Sabhaya

(c) Dinaya

(d) None of the above

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(a) Rig Veda

4. Village communities, in Rig Veda, were known as?

(a) Samiti(Assembly)/Sabha(Committee)

(b) Sabha(Assembly)/Samiti(Committee)

(c) None of the above

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(b) Sabha(Assembly)/Samiti(Committee)

5. Panchayat system suffered a setback during _____?

(a) Mughal rule

(b) Ottoman rule

(c) British rule

(d) None of the above

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(c) British rule

6. First Municipal Corporation set-up in Madras in_____by East India Company?

(a) 1686

(b) 1688

(c) 1690

(d) None of the above

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(b) 1688

7. With respect to Local Governments, British government enacted Conservancy Act in ______?
(a) 1850

(b)1840

(c) 1854

(d) 1842

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(d) 1842

8. In Karachi, the Board of Conservancy was established in?

(a) 1846

(b) 1844

(c) 1842

(d) 1848

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(a) 1846

9. With respect to Local Governments, British government enacted Municipal Act in_____?

(a) 1842

(b) 1840

(c) 1854

(d) 1850

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(d) 1850

10. In Lahore and Rawalpindi, the municipal Act was passed in?

(a) 1866
(b) 1867

(c) 1870

(d) 1868

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(b) 1867

11. Which resolution was passed with the word of acknowledgement “People of India are
perfectly capable of administering their own local affairs” ?

(a) Ripon Resolution

(b) Resolution of 1854

(c) Resolution of 1882

(d) None of the above

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(b) Resolution of 1854

12. Ripon’s Resolution passed in _____?

(a) 1880

(b) 1881

(c) 1882

(d) 1890

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(c) 1882

13. Father of local Self-Government in India?

(a) Lord Ripon

(b) Lord Dalhousie

(c) Lord Curzon

(d) None of the above

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(a) Lord Ripon

14. One of the novelties of ——- act pertaining to the LG was the transfer of local self
government to

be administered by Indian minister

(a) Government of India Act 1935

(b) Government of India Act 1919

(c) Conservany Act 1842

(d) None of the above

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(b) Government of India Act 1919

15. Under _____Act, provinces were authorized to legislate with respect to the local bodies.

(a) Government of India Act 1919

(b) Government of India Act 1935

(c) Conservany Act 1842

(d) None of the above

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(b) Government of India Act 1935

16. The _____Government of India Act allowed provincial autonomy and permitted

provinces to frame legislation on local government systems.

(a) 1919
(b) 1935

(c) 1937

(d) None of the above

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(b) 1935

17. The Mughals established the office of ______ as the key stone of Municipal organization.

(a) Panchayat

(b)Mir Mohallah

(c) kotwal

(d) None of the above

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(c) kotwal