Question

Q. 1 When and between whom the battle of Plassey was fought ? Q. 2 Who led the English forces in the battle of Plassey ? Q. 3 Who was the chief of the Army of Siraj-ud-Daula in the battle of Plassey ? Q. 4 Who betrayed Siraj-ud-Daula in the battle of Plassey ? Q. 5 Who emerged victorious in the battle of Plassey ? Q 6 After the end of the battle of Plassey who was made the Nawab of Bengal ? Q. 7 By whom did the English replace Mir Jafar in 1760 AD ? Q. 8 When and between whom the battle of Buxar fought ? Q. 9 Who led the English forces in the battle of Buxar ? Q. 10 Who was made the first Governor General of India and when ? Q. 11 Between whom and when the first Mysore War was fought ? Q. 12 Who introduced the subsidiary alliance ? Q. 13 Who introduced the Doctrine of lapse ? Q. 14 What was the Doctrine of lapse ? Q. 15 Due to the Doctrine of lapse which states were annexed to the British ? Q. 16 The first railway train started between which two railway stations ?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757.

2. Robert Clive.

3. Mir Jafar Ali Khan.

4. Mir Jafar Ali Khan.

5.British east India Company.

6. Mir jafar Ali Khan.

7. Mir Quasim.

8. 1764.

9. The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22 October 1764, between the forces under the command of the British East India Company, led by Hector Munro, and the combined armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal till 1763.

10. Warren Hastings in 1858.

11. Hyder Ali and English forces.

12.Governor Joseph François Dupleix.

13. Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India (1848–56), to deal with questions of succession to Hindu Indian states.

14. see precedent question.

15. The company took over the princely states of Satara (1848), Jaitpur and Sambalpur (1849), Nagpur and Jhansi (1854), Tore and Arcot (1855) and Udaipur (Chhattisgarh) under the terms of the doctrine of lapse. Oudh (1856) is widely believed to have been annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse.

16. Mumbai and Thane.