UGC NET History Practice Question

The official papers of the British East India Company administration in India are preserved centrally in which premier repository in India?

National Archives of India (New Delhi) ✓

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

Asiatic Society Archives

British Library (London)

The National Archives of India in New Delhi is the central repository for the bulk of colonial-era administrative records preserved in India — the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library holds a different, more specialized collection focused on the freedom movement and post-independence period.

The earliest English-language newspaper published in India, The Bengal Gazette (or Calcutta General Advertiser), was launched in 1780 by:

James Augustus Hickey ✓

James Silk Buckingham

Robert Knight

William Carey

James Augustus Hickey launched the Bengal Gazette in 1780, India's first printed newspaper — notably critical of Company officials, which led to Hickey's own prosecution and the paper's eventual suppression, an early episode in the long colonial history of press censorship.

The Wood's Despatch of 1854 is historically titled as:

Magna Carta of English Education in India ✓

Charter of Indian Press Freedom

Blue Print for Local Self-Government

Code of Indian Civil Services

The Wood's Despatch of 1854, which laid out a comprehensive scheme for English education in India (universities, grants-in-aid, vernacular primary schools), is traditionally called the "Magna Carta of English Education in India" for its foundational importance to the colonial education system.

Which British Governor-General established the Imperial Record Department (predecessor of National Archives) in Calcutta in 1891?

Lord Lansdowne ✓

Lord Curzon

Lord Dufferin

Lord Minto

Lord Lansdowne established the Imperial Record Department in Calcutta in 1891 (later relocated to New Delhi and renamed the National Archives of India) — a landmark step in systematically preserving colonial administrative records for future reference.

The multi-volume compilation The Transfer of Power 1942-47, an essential documentary source for Indian independence, was edited by:

Nicholas Mansergh ✓

Penderel Moon

E.W.R. Lumby

H.V. Hodson

Nicholas Mansergh edited the massive twelve-volume Transfer of Power 1942-47 documentary series, drawing on official British records — an essential primary-source compilation for studying the final years of British rule and the negotiations leading to independence and Partition.

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