C. Short answer questions
1. What were the reasons for the conflicts
between the different European traders?
2. What strategies did the Company use to
expand its rule in India?
3. Name the Presidencies the Company
gained control over under Warren
Hastings. Who governed them?
Answers
1. there was rivalries between the trading companies of different European countries in India because:
A. The amount of trade was not sufficient to sustain all the companies.
B. There was a competition to make more profit.
C. In order to gain more trade facilities they had to gain political control over the areas.
D. which company started building its army to protect its interest in India which leads to many wars.
2. The following strategies used by British to expand their rule in India are :-
1. India as readers in different periods of the 15th and 16th centuries,only the British and the friends East India company remained as dominant once by the beginning of the eighteenth century.
2. In the first decade of 18th century, the fortunes of the then mighty Mughal Empire began to decline and there emerged a number of successive States or regional powers or country powers in different parts of India.
3. The two Europe trading companies after relising the weakness of the then country powers decided to make sincere efforts to become a strong political power and to expand and consolidate their swimming in India. It is the trade interest that made the two European companies chart out this process of territorial expansion.
3. The three presidency cities established by Warren Hastings wha
1. Bombay
2. Calcutta
3. Madras
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