2. Which Mughal ruler permitted the English East India Company to set up trade settlements in Indi?
A. Answer the following questions orally.
1 When did Vasco da Gama reach India?
3. What were the people running English trade settlements called?
Why were trade settlements fortified?
5. Who led the British to victory over the French in the Carnatic Wars?
6. Where did the East India Company raise its first Indian army?
2. Name the founder of the English factory around which the settlement of Calcutta developed
8. Which river separated Ranjit Singh's territories from those of the British?
9. What advantage did the British gain by annexing Lower Burma?
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Answer:
2. Emperor Jahangir
In 1600, queen Elizabeth 1 granted monopoly to East India Company for trade with East Indies. The first factory of the company was set up in Masulipatnam( present day machilipatnam, Krishna) in 1611. in 1612, it got permission from Mughal Emperor Jahangir to establish Factories in Surat.
A. Answer the following questions
1. Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese nobleman, was born around 1460. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon on July 8, 1497, with a crew of 170 men. He arrived at Calicut (now Kozhikode) on May 20, 1498. Da Gama set sail on the first European voyage to India, more than 500 years ago, on this day (July 8).
2.The people running English trade settlements were called interlopers.
3.Trade settlements are fortified to protect them from an enemy attack.
4.In 1751, however, Robert Clive led British troops to capture Arcot, and successfully defend it. The war ended with the Treaty of Pondicherry, signed in 1754, which recognised Muhammad Ali Khan Walajah as the Nawab of the Carnatic. Charles Godeheu replaced Dupleix, who died in poverty back in France.
5.The first army officially called the "Indian Army" was raised by the government of India in 1895, existing alongside the three long-established presidency armies. However, in 1903 the Indian Army absorbed these three armies.
6.Job Charnock was the founder of English factory in the year 1686.
7. Sutlej river
8. The strategic position of Burma in the trade routs between India and china came as an advantage to the British since they could now control the trade. Burma had a lot of Indian traders passing through it, due to this fact, there were a lot of goods such as spices benefited