WorksheetsFrom Trade to Territory
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
With the charter from Queen Elizabeth granting it the sole right to trader with the East, the East India Company could venture across the oceans, looking for new lands from which it could buy goods at a cheap price, and carry them back to Europe to sell at higher prices. How did mercantile trading companies in those days make profit?
by excluding competition
by educating people about sea travel
by buying at high prices and selling at low
All the above
The first English factory was set up on the banks of the river Hugli. This was the base from which the Company’s traders, known at that time as “factors”, operated. The factory had a warehouse where goods for export were stored, and it had offices for Company officials. As trade expanded, the Company persuaded merchants and traders to come and settle near the factory. In which year was this factory set up?
1652
1647
1658
1651
By 1696, the English factory on the banks of river Hugli began building a fort around its settlement. Two years later, it bribed Mughal officials into giving the Company zamindari rights over three villages, one of which was _______. It also persuaded the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb to issue a farman granting the Company the right to trade duty free.
Madras
Delhi
Kalikata
Aurangabad
The British saw Haidar and Tipu as ambitious, arrogant, and dangerous. Four battles were fought with them and only in the last battle did the Company ultimately win by killing Tipu Sultan. Identify this battle:
Battle of Buxar
Battle of Plassey
Battle of Panipat
Battle of Seringapatam
Colonial rule in India brought in some new ideas of administration and reform but its power rested on its military strength. Identify the set where the words are followed by their correct meanings:
infantry: paidal, foot soldiers; cavalry: sawar soldiers on horsebacks; sepoy: archers; teer-andaaz: sipahi, or peasants recruited and trained as soldiers
cavalry: paidal, foot soldiers; infantry: sawar soldiers on horsebacks; teer-andaaz: archers; sepoy: sipahi, or peasants recruited and trained as soldiers
infantry: paidal, foot soldiers; cavalry: sawar soldiers on horsebacks; teer-andaaz: archers; sepoy: sipahi, or peasants recruited and trained as soldiers
sepoy: paidal, foot soldiers; cavalry: sawar soldiers on horsebacks; teer-andaaz: archers; infantry: sipahi, or peasants recruited and trained as soldiers
(a) devised the policy of Doctrine of Lapse.
(a) was tried in England as he was accused for being responsible for the misgovernance of Bengal.
(a) was also known as the "Tiger of Mysore"
Vasco da Gama , a Portuguese explorer had discovered the seas route to India in the year (a) .
Political or commercial agents appointed in the the Indian States after the battle of Buxar were called (a) .
