8th Unit No. 3 Glimpses of the Past

In the year 1765, in India

• The British Govt. ruled most of the country

• East India Company ruled most parts of India

• Indian princes ruled most of the country

• The Mughals ruled the whole country

From 1757 to 1849, there was no peace in India because

• the Indian Princes kept fighting each other

• the East India Company was cruel

• Tippu Sultan fought the British

• there were Hindu-Muslim riots

The business community welcomed the British because

• they liked Europeans

• they disliked their own countrymen

• the British rule had brought a degree of peace

• they were afraid of the British an

The worst sufferers under the British rule were

• who served in East India Company

• the business community

• the religious leaders.

• the poor farmers and artisans

In the early nineteenth century Raja Ram Mohan Roy was

• an able fighter

• an eminent reformer

• a great religious person

• a great king

Under Regulation III of the British rulers

• Indians were to pay higher taxes

• British goods became cheap

• cotton-wearers became poor

• Indians could be jailed without trial in a court.