UPSC Prelims · 1999 · GS Paper I · Q80
At a time when empires in Europe were crumbling before the might of Napoleon which one of the following Governors- General kept the British flag flying high in India ?
- (A)Warren Hastings
- (B)Lord Cornwallis
- (C)Lord Wellesley
- (D)Lord Hastings
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Answer: (C) Lord Wellesley
- Subject
- History
- Chapter
- Advent of Europeans & British Expansion
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