Chapter 2 From Trade to Territory The Company Establishes Power

1. Regarding the chronology of the following statement.

1.The East India Company was granted a charter by the King

of England, and no other trading company in England could compete with it.

2.On the banks of the Hugli River, the first English factory was established.

3.When Alivardi Khan died, Sirajuddaulah became Bengal’s nawab.

4.This sea route to India was found by Vasco da Gama.

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2. Think about the following sentence.

1.Murshid Quli Khan refused to make any concessions to the

Company and wanted huge tributes in exchange for the

Company’s freedom to trade.

2.As Nawab of Bengal, Sirajuddaulah prevented the Company

from expanding its defences.

3.Only the Company had been granted the privilege to trade

duty-free by Aurangzeb’s farman.

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3. Thinks over the statement about the Battle of Plessey.

1.Robert Clive’s command of Calcutta from Madras

bolstered the English position in Bengal.

2.Clive formed a covert alliance with the nawab’s

traitors.

3.Siraj-ud-daula became the Nawab of Bengal as a

result of his victory at the Battle of Plessey.

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4. Consider the following proposition:

1. After the battle of Plassy, the English captured Bengal’s Zamindari.
2. The Battle of Plassey established the English military ascendancy in India.

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5. Consider the following Statement.

1.The East India Company became the true masters

of Bengal after the Battle of Buxar.

2.Wellesley founded the dual-government system.

3.The Company selected two deputy diwans, Bengal’s

Mohammad Reza Khan and Bihar’s Raja Sitab Roy.

4.The Company took control of the dual government diwani,

i.e. tax collection, and nizamat, i.e. police and judicial functions.

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6. Consider the following remark about Tipu Sultan of Mysore.

1. In India, he developed a close friendship with the French.
2. He upgraded his troops.
3. He died at the Battle of Seringapatam.
4. The Mysore was never forced to join a subsidiary alliance.

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7. Consider the statement below.

1.Mir Kasim relocated the capital from

Murshidabad to Munger in Bihar.

2.Following the Battle of Plassy in 1760, Mir Kasim

decided to hand over the Burdwan regions to the Company.

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8. Take a look at the following statement about

subsidiary alliance policies.

1.Warren Hasting established a policy of subsidiary alliances.

2.Under the arrangement, the monarch of an allying Indian state was

forced to accept the permanent stationing of a British garrison

within his territory and pay a stipend to support it.

3.The subsidiary alliance policy was essentially an expansion of

the ring-fence concept.

4.The Indian emperor could not hire a European to work for him

without first consulting the Company.

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9. Take a look at the timeline of the following statements.

1. Treaty of Mandasor,
2. Treaty of Poona.
3. Treaty of Gwalior,
4. Treaty of Seringapatam

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11. Take a look at the following remark about “claim to paramountcy.”

What exactly does that imply?

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12. consider the following  statement .

when the British tried to annex the small state of Kitoor

(in Karnataka today), she took to arms and led an anti-British

resistance movement.  She was arrested in 1824 and died in

prison in 1829. But Rayanna, a poor chowkidar of Sangoli

in Kitoor, carried on the resistance.

Above paragraph is talking about whom

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13. Consider the statement below.

1.According to the doctrine of Lapse Policy, an

adopted son could inherit his foster father’s private property.

2.Indian princes who embraced the subsidiary system,

such as the Nizam of Hyderabad.

3.In 1818, the Holkars became the last Maratha confederation

to join the Subsidiary Alliance.

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14. Consider the statement below.

1.After deposing Nawab Wajid Ali Shah for misgovernment,

Lord Dalhousie conquered Awadh in 1856.

2.The Doctrine of Lapse stated that an Indian ruler’s kingdom

would “lapse” if he died without a male heir.

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15. Match the following

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16. Consider the statement below.

1. The Battle of Plassey marked the start of the British occupation of Bengal.
2. Mysore was ruled by Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan.
3. To modernise his army, Tipu enlisted the help of the Dutch.

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17. Consider the statement below.

1. The Maratha kingdoms were primarily found in India’s south-western region.
2. Sher-e-Punjab was the name given to Lalalajpat ray.
3. The Doctrine of Lapse was introduced at Dalhousie.

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18. Take a look at the following statement about what
drew European trading enterprises to India.

1. Spices such as pepper, cloves, cardamom, and
   cinnamon were in high demand as well.
2. India’s quality cotton and silk had
   a large market in Europe.

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19. Consider the following statement about the Bengal
nawabs and the East India Company’s regions of contention.

1. For the Company’s privilege to trade,
   the Nawabs demanded huge tributes.
2. The company did not agree to pay
   taxes.

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20. Consider the following statement on the
“subsidiary alliance” arrangement.

1. Indian kings were not authorised to have their own
   armed forces under the conditions of the alliance.
2. The Indian rulers were required to pay for the “subsidiary armies”
   that the Company was expected to keep for the purpose of providing protection,
   according to the rules of the alliance.

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