From Traders to Rulers

Identify the place (one of the factories of the English East India Company)

• Thalassery Fort

• Fort St. George

• Fort William

• Sewri Fort

Which of these trading companies did not come to India in the seventeenth century?

• Portugal

• Denmark

• Holland

• Japan

Which of these items were not traded from India to Europe/America at higher prices?

• Cloth

• Spices

• Silk

• Indigo

• Cheese

__________ 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

The English EIC set up its first factory in __________.

• Madras

• Surat

• Bombay

• Calcutta

__________ was the richest province in India.

• Bombay

• Nagapatnam

• Bengal

• Malwa

Who preceded Shuja-ud-Din as the Nawab of Bengal?

• Alivardi Khan

• Murshid Quli Khan

• Siraj-ud-Daulah

• Shah Alam II

Who received the title 'puppet nawab'?

• Mir Qasim

• Jagat Seth

• Hyder Ali

• Mir Jafar

When was the battle of Plassey fought?

• 26th June 1755

• 23rd July 1764

• 23rd June 1757

• 26th July 1857

What is the meaning of 'Diwani' rights?

• a royal order

• peace treaty

• revenue collection

• customs duty