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- 1. Multiple Choice
Identify the place (one of the factories of the English East India Company)
Thalassery Fort
Fort St. George
Fort William
Sewri Fort
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of these trading companies did not come to India in the seventeenth century?
Portugal
Denmark
Holland
Japan
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of these items were not traded from India to Europe/America at higher prices?
Cloth
Spices
Silk
Indigo
Cheese
- 4. Multiple Choice
__________ granted the Coat of Arms to the English East India Company to show that the Company had her royal patronage.
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth IV
Marie Antoinette
- 5. Multiple Choice
The English EIC set up its first factory in __________.
Madras
Surat
Bombay
Calcutta
- 6. Multiple Choice
__________ was the richest province in India.
Bombay
Nagapatnam
Bengal
Malwa
- 7. Multiple Choice
Who preceded Shuja-ud-Din as the Nawab of Bengal?
Alivardi Khan
Murshid Quli Khan
Siraj-ud-Daulah
Shah Alam II
- 8. Multiple Choice
Who received the title 'puppet nawab'?
Mir Qasim
Jagat Seth
Hyder Ali
Mir Jafar
- 9. Multiple Choice
When was the battle of Plassey fought?
26th June 1755
23rd July 1764
23rd June 1757
26th July 1857
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of 'Diwani' rights?
a royal order
peace treaty
revenue collection
customs duty
- 11. Multiple Choice
Who dismissed court officials who favoured the British?
Aurangzeb
Mir Jafar
Mir Qasim
Shuja-ud-Daulah
- 12. Multiple Choice
Who provided relief to the people when a famine struck Bengal in 1770?
Nawab of Bengal
Warren Hastings
Robert Clive
None of the above
- 13. Multiple Choice
Who acquired territories through Subsidiary Alliance?
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Wellesley
Lord Cornwallis
None of the above
- 14. Multiple Choice
A British officer called the __________ would be stationed at the ruler's court and interfere in internal politics.
Sepoy
Resident
Maharaja
Zamindar
- 15. Multiple Choice
The Subsidiary Treaty was first signed with __________.
Nizam of Hyderabad
Nawab of Bengal
Nawab of Awadh
Ruler of Mysore
- 16. Multiple Choice
Identify the personality who devised the Doctrine of Lapse policy.
Lord Mountbatten
Lord Hastings
Lord Bentinck
Lord Dalhousie
- 17. Multiple Choice
Who was accused of misrule that led to the annexation of Awadh?
Nawab Muhammad Ali
Nawab Bahadur Shah Jafar
Nawab Shuja-ud-Din
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
- 18. Multiple Choice
When did the Dual system of governance end in Bengal?
1757
1764
1770
1772
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which of the kingdoms did Dalhousie not annex?
Satara
Jhansi
Baroda
Nagpur
- 20. Multiple Choice
The British applied the __________ policy in India.
divide and rule
national
liberty, equality, fraternity
efficient governance
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