7. Short answer questions.
(a) How were the regional kingdoms set up after Aurangzeb's death?
(b) Which new power began emerging on the political scene after the fall of the Mughals?
(c) What factors led to intense conflicts of the company with local rulers?
(d) Write a short note on the base of East India Company in Bengal.
(e) Name the village which the company got from Mughal officials.
(f) Discuss in short about the last powerful Mughal ruler.
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Answer:
a) After his death in 1707, several Mughal governors (Subadars) and big Zamindars began asserting their authority and setting up regional kingdoms.
b) By the second half of the 18 th century, a new power began emerging on political horizon. This power was the British.
c) Fortification of settlements and effort to carry on profitable trade led to intense conflict between British and local rulers.
d) The English East India Company was a private concern formed by some English merchants. They acquired from Queen Elizabeth I in 1600 the exclusive right to carry out trade with the East. ... Sir Thomas Roe visited the Mughal court in 1615 and received many trade concessions from Emperor Jahangir.
e) Kalikata
f) Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad also known as Aurangzeb or by his title Alamgir was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire. He ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent through Islamic Sharia. His reign lasted for 49 years from 1658 until his death in 1707. ... He was the last great and powerful ruler of the Mughal dynasty.