TRADE TO TERRITORY

1. When did the first English factory set and where?

a. On the bank of Ganga in Bihar in 1659
b. On the banks of river Hugli in 1651.
c. On the bank of river Yamuna in Assam in 1655.
d. On the bank of river Brahmaputra in Pune in 1660
2. _____ was the last ruler of Mughal empire.
a. Akbar II
b. Bahadur Shah Zafar
c. Aurangzeb
d. Shah Alam
3. Fine qualities of ____ had big market in Europe when European traders started
marketing in India. a. cotton
b. timber
c. wheat
d. pepper
4. ______ was the first major victory of Englishmen in India.
a. Battle of Plassey
b. Battle of Madras
c. battle of Mysore
d. Battle of Delh

5. ____ was capital of Tipu Sultan

a. Calicut
b. Mangalore
c. Seringapatnam
d. Masulipatnam
6. When did the East India Company acquire a charter from the ruler of England,
Queen Elizabeth I, granting it the sole right to trade with the East? a.1600
b. 1500
c.1550
d.1620

7.Who discovered this sea route to India in 1498?

a. Vasco da Gama
b. Christopher Columbus
c. Warren Hastings
d. Wellesley

8. How did mercantile trading companies in those days make profit?

a. By excluding competition.
b. By educating people about sea travel.
c. By buying at high prices and selling at low.
d. None of the above.

9. When did Robert Clive lead the Company’s army against Siraj ud-Daulah at
Plassey? a. 1759
b. 1757
c. 1756
d. 1758

10. In which year was the third Battle of Panipat fought?

a. 1761
b. 1764
c. 1782
d. 1785

11. Bengal Nawabs refused to grant the Company concessions, demanded large
tributes for the Company’s right to trade, denied it any right to mint coins, and
stopped it from extending its fortifications. These conflicts of interests led to
confrontations. Which famous battle did this finally culminate in? a. Battle of
Plassey
b. Battle of Panipat
c. Battle of Jhansi
d. Battle of Mysore
12. The Mughal emperor appointed the Company as the Diwan of the provinces of
Bengal. The Diwani allowed the Company to use the vast revenue resources of
Bengal. This solved a major problem wherein the Company had to buy most of the
goods in India with gold and silver imported from Britain because? a. The
company had no revenues in India.
b. It was very tedious to calculate the differences in the values of currencies of
Britain and India
c. The prices of the goods were very high.
d. At that time Britain had no goods to sell in India.

13. State whether each of the following statements is True or False.

a. The Maratha power was crushed in the third Anglo-Maratha war.
b. Tipu Sultan disallowed local merchants from trading with the Company.
c. The Company took away parts of territories from Punjab and Satara based on
‘subsidiary alliance’.
d. Sirajuddaulah got help from his commander Mir Jafar and finally won a victory
in the Battle of Plassey.
e. Lord Dalhousie’s ‘Doctrine of Lapse’ proved to be a total failure.

VSA TYPE 1 (2 MARKS)

1. a. Haider All and Tipu Sultan were the rulers of …………..
b. Maratha kingdoms were located mainly in the part of …………… India.

2. What attracted European trading companies to India?

3. Under “subsidiary alliance”, when Richard Wellesley was
Governor General, the Nawab of was
forced to give over half of his territory to the Company in 1801,
as he failed to pay for the ___________
4. A business enterprise that makes profit primarily through trade buying
goods cheap and selling them at higher prices is termed as ___________
 5. The Battle of Plassey became famous because it was the first major victory
of the East India Company in India. Who became the Nawab of Bengal after
Siraj ud-Daulah?

6. Which were the other trading Companies that came to the Indian shores?

7. Why Siraj-ud-daulah lost the battle of Plassey?

VSA TYPE 2 (3MARKS)

1. Through the early eighteenth century, the conflict between the
Company and the Nawabs of Bengal intensified. was
followed by Alivardi Khan and then as the Nawab of Bengal. After the
death of ___________ the famous Mughal emperor the Bengal Nawabs began
asserting their power and autonomy, as other regional powers were doing at that
time.

2. (a) What do you mean by charter? What kind of charter did East India
Company acquire in the year 1600?

b. Who were known as ‘Factors’?

3. By 1696, the English factory on the banks of river 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 to
issue a farman granting the Company the right to trade duty free.
4. What was the ‘doctrine of lapse’?
5. What caused huge loss of revenue in Bengal?
6. Why did the Company want a puppet ruler?
7. List the Kingdoms which were annexed based on ‘Doctrine of Lapse’.
 1. How did the appointment of residents in Indian states help the company?
2. What happened in the Battle of Seringapatam?

Case study
Read the excerpt given and answer the questions that follow: (5 Marks)
The Company received a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I on December
31,1600 AD authorizing it to trade in the East. The Queen was herself a shareholder
in the East India Company. This was a mercantile trading company that was
interested in securing markets by eliminating rival competitors.
a. How did the East India company benefit from the charter? (2)
b. Who were East India Company’s rival competitors (1)
c. How did the Competitors try to secure the market? (2)

Picture based question. ( 5MARK)