Which of the following is not a true statement?

1. On the eve of Independence, agriculture was the principal occupation of the people in India.
2. Mining is the main secondary occupation.
3. Indian manufactured products enjoyed a worldwide market before the British established themselves in India.
4. The role of the public sector under the British rule was confined only to a few industries.

Britishers created a monopoly over India's foreign trade, from which of the following ways?

1. Full control over foreign trade.
2. Discriminatory tariff rates.
3. Opening of Suez Canal.
4. All of the above Answers.

Whose estimate of national income was considered very significant?

1. Dadabhai Naoroji.
2. William Digby.
3. RC Desai.
4. VKRV Rao.

Which of the following sentences gives best description of the Indian economy during the British rule?

1. India was an agrarian economy.
2. India was a stagnant economy.
3. India was an agrarian economy with rapidly growing population in mass poverty and illiteracy.
4. India was a poor economy.

The first railways in India was operated between which of following two stations?

1. Delhi and Bombay.
2. Bombay and Kolkata.
3. Bombay and Thane.
4. Bombay and Pune.

What was the growth rate of GDP during British rule?

1. 2 percent.
2. 3 percent.
3. 4 percent.
4. 0.5 percent.

Which of the following factor further caused decline of jute textile after partition of the country?

1. British policies.
2. Famines.
3. Lack of raw materials.
4. All of the above.

The Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) was incorporated in:

1. 1807
2. 1870
3. 1907
4. 1970

Details about the population of British India were first collected in:

1. 1871
2. 1881
3. 1891
4. 1901

What percentage of India lived in villages at the time of independence?

1. 80 percent.
2. 70 percent.
3. 85 percent.
4. 75 percent.