(B) Write the answers in two or three sentences. 4
1. Who was the head of French company ?
2. Which war took place in 1757 ?
3. Who were allowed to trade by king Zamori of Calicut ?
4. Which Mughal emperor allowed the British to trade in Bengal?
Answers
Answer:
1.The ablest leader of the company, Joseph-François Dupleix, was appointed the governor-general of French India in 1742
2.The Battle of Plassey was fought in north-eastern India on 23 June 1757. Troops of the British East India Company, led by Robert Clive, came up against the forces of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the last Nawab of Bengal, and his French allies
3.The Zamorin of Calicut (Malayalam: Samoothiri, Portuguese: Samorim, Dutch: Samorijn, Chinese: Shamitihsi[2]) was the hereditary monarch of the kingdom of Kozhikode (Calicut) on the Malabar Coast of India. Kozhikode was one of the important trading ports on the south-western coast of India. At the peak of their reign, the Samoothiri's ruled over a region from Kollam (Quilon) to Panthalayini Kollam (Koyilandy).[3][4]
4.One of these was Kalikata, which later grew into the city of Calcutta or Kolkata as it is known today. It also persuaded the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb to issue a farman granting the Company the right to trade duty free.