SSt Expansion of British Power

In ____________ Queen Elizabeth gave a charter to the English East India Company

• 1600

• 1500

• 1700

• 1599

This nawab of Bengal asked the English East India Company to remove all its fortifications in Calcutta

• Murshid Quli Khan

• Siraj-ud-Daulah

• Alivardi Khan

• Shuja-ud-Din

The British victory at _______________ led Shah Alam II to grant the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha to the English East India Company

• Buxar

• Plassey

• Seringapatam

• Panipat

This governor-General introduced the system of Subsidiary Alliance

• Robert Clive

• Warren Hastings

• Lord Wellesley

• Lord Dalhousie

One of the four agencies that carried out the day-to-day administration of the Company was the

• police

• cavalry

• infantry

• espionage

_______________ was the Governor-General of India from 1772 to 1785

• Lord Dalhousie

• Warren Hastings

• Lord Wellesley

• Lord Mountbatten

The capital of the kingdom of Mysore was

• Plassey

• Seringapatam

• Nagpur

• Awadh

Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the ruler of

• Buxar

• Awadh

• Calcutta

• Punjab

The battle of Buxar was fought in the year

• 1785

• 1757

• 1857

• 1764

The Company obtained the right to trade without paying customs duty in the year

• 1799

• 1801

• 1717

• 1761