Answer the following questions:
1. What do you know about the Royal Charter that was signed by the Queen in 1600 ?
2. What was the outcome of the competition faced by the trading companies in India in the early seventeenth century?
3. State 3 ways by which the English strengthened their foot near their factory on the banks of river Hugli.
4. By whom was the Dual Form of Government of Bengal started? Explain.
5. State the reasons for the appointment of the British Resident in the Indian States .
6. Who were the Nabobs?
7. Who introduced the policy of ‘paramountcy’? What does it mean?
8. Why was the East India Company interested in taking over Mysore?
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Answer:
1)On December 31, 1600, Queen Elizabeth I signed a royal charter giving a group of London merchants the exclusive right to trade in the Indies. With 30,133 pounds in hand, five sailing ships left England in February 1601, arriving on the western shores of India in June 1602.
2) This competition resulted in fierce clashes between the trading companies and the sinking of each others ships. They blocked routes and prevented rival ships from moving with supplies of goods.
3) 1651
The first English factory was set up on the banks of the river Hugli in Bengal 1651. As their expanded, the East India Company convinced merchants and traders to come and settle near the factory. By 1696, the Company began building a fort around the Hugli settlement.
4) The Dual System of Government in Bengal was the brainchild of Robert Clive in 1765. Under this system, the administration of Bengal was divided into two parts- Diwani and Nizamat. Diwani means the right to collect revenue was given to the company.
5)The Residency system has its origins in the system of subsidiary alliances devised by the British after the Battle of Plassey in 1757, to secure Bengal from attack by deploying East India Company troops of the Bengal Army within friendly Native States.
6)A nabob is a conspicuously wealthy man deriving his fortune in the east, especially in India during the 18th century with the privately held East India Company.
7)Lord Hastings ( Governal General from 1813 to 1823) introduced the policy of Paramountcy . Company claimed that it's authority was paramount or supreme, hence its power was greater than that of Indian states . In order to protect its interests , it was justified in annexing or threatening to annex any Indian kingdom.
8) The British East India Company came to India as traders in spices, a very important commodity in Europe back then as it was used to preserve meat. Apart from that, they primarily traded in silk, cotton, indigo dye, tea and opium. They landed in the Indian subcontinent on August 24, 1608, at the port of Surat.
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