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WorksheetsTHE EXPANSION OF BRITISH POWER IN INDIA ( REVISION )
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Hyder Ali was Tipu Sultan's _____
General
Father
Brother
How many Anglo-Mysore wars were fought?
4
5
3
Who formulated Doctrine of Lapse?
Lord Dalhousie
Robert Clive
Lord cornwallis
Who was the Ruler of the Sikh kingdom?
Hyder Ali
Ranjit Singh
Raghunath Rao
None of the above
_____ granted a Charter to East India Company in early 1600s in order to trade with India.
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
King George V
Queen Elizabeth II
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
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
The capital of the kingdom of Mysore was
Plassey
Seringapatam
Nagpur
Awadh
Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the ruler of
Buxar
Awadh
Calcutta
Punjab
According to the historians, by the second half of the 18th century, which new power emerged as powerful in India?
CHINESE
DUTCH
BRITISH
JAPANESE
Name the place the British King Charles-II received as a dowry by marrying the Portuguese princess, which later became an important trading centre.
ISLAND OF DAMAN
ISLAND OF GOA
ISLAND OF PUDICHERRY
Island of Bombay
WHO FLED AND SEEKED SHELTER OF SHUJA - UD DAULAH, THE NAWAB OF AWADH ?
SHAH ALAM II
SIRAJ UD DAULAH
MIR QASIM
MIR JAFAR
WHICH BATTLE IS MARKED AS THE TURNING POINT OF INDIAN HISTORY ? WHY ?
CARNATIC WARS AS THE FRENCH BECAME WEAK
ANGLO MARATHA WARS AS THE PESHWA WAS REMOVED
THE SEVEN WARS OF EUROPE, MADE BRITISH WEAK
THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY , GAVE DIWANI RIGHTS TO COLLECT TAXES FROM BENGAL, BIHAR AND ORISSA
