GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

INDIAN HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Name the Governor General who adopted a policy of the Europeanization of bureaucracy and an exclusion of Indians from higher posts.
A
Warren Hastings
B
Cornwallis
C
Wellesley
D
Dalhousie
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The subsidiary alliance in India was planned by Lord Wellesley, but this term was introduced by French Governor Dupleix. An Indian ruler entering into Subsidiary Alliance with the British had to dissolve his own armed forces and accept British forces in his territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lord Hastings(1813-1823) adopted the policy of Intervention and War.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Bentinck became the first governor general of India in 1833. Warren Hastings was the first governor general of Bengal.. This system of overlordship ended with the last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten.

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