Colonial rule in India

Which English monarch provided the charter (license) for the East India trading company

• Henry VIII

• Mary I

• Elizabeth I

• Charles I

Who introduced the Subsidiary Alliance?

• Robert Clive

• Dupleix

• Lord Wellesley

• Lord Dalhousie

Lord Wellesley was the Governor General of India from

• 1767-1769

• 1798 -1801

• 1780 -1784

• 1798-1805

Evidently the policy of Subsidiary Alliance allowed the British

• a. to supervise a king's relations with other kingdoms

• b. to supervise a kings activities within the kingdom.

• c. to supervise a king's activities with his subjects.

In _______, Lord Wellesley became the Governor-General of India.

• 1789

• 1798

In Subsidiary Alliance, the ruler would not keep any_____ of his own.

• army

• territory

In Subsidiary Alliance, the British officer called the '______' would be stationed at the rulers court.

• Resident

• Officer

The British conquest of Bengal began with the

• Battle of Buxor

• Battle of Plassey

• Battle of Haldighati

Doctrine of Lapse was the idea of

• Dalhousie

• Robert Clive

• Warren Hastings

The first Nawab of Bengal was

• Alivardi Khan

• Siraj ud Daulah

• Murshid Quli Khan