ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
QUESTIONS
1. Which European countries ruled
over India?
2. Which Indian products were
in great demand in European
countries?
3. Why was the land route to
India closed?
4. How was the sea-route to India
discovered?
5.Who discovered the new
sea-route to India? Where did he
land in India? When?
6. Write a brief note on the
establishment of the British East
India Company.
7. How did the Britishers get the
permission to start trading in
India? Where did they start the
trading centres in India?
8. Write a brief note on the French
East India Company.
9. How did the Portuguese power
come to an end in India?
10.Why could the French not ableto continue their power in India.
Answers
Answer:
1. England , france and Purtgal ruled over India.
2. Apart from raise in a collection of farm revenues, spices, cotton and indigo of the Indian market were in great demand in Europe during the 18th century.
3. So that no one can enter in India .
4. The Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India was the first recorded trip made directly from Europe to India via the Cape of Good Hope, in the Atlantic Ocean.
5. Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route to India in 1497-1498. Actually, an unnamed Indian navigator he hired in Kenya directed the journey from the east coast of Africa to what is now Kozhikode, India.
6. The East India Company was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. Incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600, it was started as a monopolistic trading body so that England could participate in the East Indian spice trade.
7. In the beginning East India Company ships were anchored at Surat ports. Sir Thomas Roe visited the court of the mughal emperor Jahangir in 1615 CE and obtained permission to trade in Surat. ... After this, they established trade centres at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.
8. French East India Company
FRENCH TRADING COMPANY
WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Alternative Titles: Compagnie Française des Indes, Compagnie Française des Indes Orientales, Compagnie des Indes, French India Company
French East India Company, byname of (1664–1719) Compagnie Française des Indes Orientales (French: “French Company of the East Indies”), or (1719–20) Compagnie des Indes (“Company of the Indies”), or (1720–89) Compagnie Française des Indes (“French Company of the Indies”), any of the French trading companies established in the 17th and 18th centuries to oversee French commerce with India, eastern Africa, and other territories of the Indian Ocean and the East Indies.
9. Portugal lost effective control of the enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1954, and finally the rest of the overseas territory in December 1961, when it was annexed by India under the Nehru Government.
10. The lack of naval strength of the French compared to that of the English was one of the decisive factors for the failure of the French in India. Dupleix did not appreciate the greater importance of the navy in the colonial expansion in India, on the contrary, he relied more on the land forces.
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