HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Question
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Tipu Sultan
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Murshid Quli Khan
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Raghunath Rao
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Lord Cornwallis
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tipu Sultan introduced a new system of coinage and new scales of weight and measures and a new calendar. 3. Tipu Sultan was the first to apply the western method in the organisation of administration.
Detailed explanation-2: -Explanation: Tipu sultan was a complex character but innovator and gave a new calendar, new coinage system & new scales of weights & measure. He planted a ‘Tree of Liberty’ at Seringapatam and became a member of a ‘Jacobian Club.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar.
Detailed explanation-4: -Statement 1 is correct: Tipu Sultan instituted a new calendar in 1784. The new era which he introduced consisted of twelve Luni-Solar years of twelve lunar months.