ADVENT OF EUROPEANS IN INDIA

Question 1

The arrival of three ships under Vasco Da Gama, led by a Gujarati pilot named _____ , at Calicut in May 1498 profoundly affected the course of Indian history. The Hindu ruler of Calicut, the _______, however, had no apprehensions as to the European’s intentions. As the prosperity of his kingdom was due to Calicut’s position as an entrepot, he accorded a friendly reception to Vasco Da Gama.

Answer 1

Abdul Majid, Zamorin (Samuthiri).

Question 2

Pedro Alvarez Cabral established a factory at _______, where he arrived in September 1500.

Answer 2

Calicut.

Question 3

Who is known for his Blue Water Policy (cartaze system)?

Answer 3

Francisco De Almaida, governor of Portuguese.

Question 4

Who was the real founder of the Portuguese power in the East?

Answer 4

• Alfonso de Albuquerque.
• He introduced a permit system for other ships.
• acquired Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur in 1510.
• he abolished sati in Goa.
• encouraged to take local wives.
• build new roads and irrigation works, introducing new crops like tobacco and cashew nut or better plantation varieties of coconut.

Question 5

Which ruler of medieval Gujarat surrendered Diu to the Portuguese?

Answer 5

Bahadur Shah.
Nino Da Cunha was Portuguese Governor in India at that time.

Question 6

Which Portuguese governor shifted the headquarters of the Portuguese government in India from Cochin to Goa?

Answer 6

Nino Da Cunha assumed office in November 1529 and almost one year later in 1530 he shifted the headquarters.

Question 7

Jesuits for 1st Jesuit Mission to Akbar’s court?

Answer 7

Rodolfo Aquaviva and Antonio Monserrate.

Question 8

Jesuits for 3rd Jesuit Mission to Akbar’s court?

Answer 8

Jerome Xavier and Emanuel Pinheiro.

Question 9

In 1608, Captain William Hawkins with his ship Hector reached Surat to the Mughal court of?

Answer 9

Jahangir.

Question 10

During the reign of which Mughal ruler the advantages which the Portuguese enjoyed in the Mughal court were lost forever?

Answer 10

Shah Jahan.

Question 11

______ captured Salsette and Bassein in 1739 from the Portuguese.

Answer 11

Marathas.

Question 12

Establishment of the first Portuguese fort in India?

Answer 12

1503 at Cochin.

Question 13

Establishment of the 2nd Portuguese fort in India?

Answer 13

1505 at Cannanore.

Question 14

An Advanced History of India
Book is written by?

Answer 14

By Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, Kalikinkar Datta, and R. C. Majumdar.

Question 15

Which Ambassador arrived at “Jahangir’s Court” during 1615?

Answer 15

Sit Thomas Roe and stayed there till February 1619.
Though he was unsuccessful in concluding a commercial treaty with the Mughal emperor, he was able to secure a number of privileges, including permission to set up factories at Agra, Ahmedabad and Broach.

Question 16

Francis Day in 1639 recieved from the ruler of _______ permission to build a fortified factory at Madras which later became the Fort St. George.

Answer 16

Chandragiri.

Question 17

Term dastaks meaning with respect to the history of modern India?

Answer 17

Passes.

Question 18

A permanent factory of East India Company established at?

Answer 18

Surat in 1613.

Question 19

East India Company’s first factory in the South?

Answer 19

1616 in Masulipatnam.

Question 20

East India Company establishes its first factory in East India in?

Answer 20

Hariharpur, Balasore (Odisha) in 1633.

Question 21

Which Mughal emperor issued the farman, called Magna Carta of the company, giving company a large number of trade concessions?

Answer 21

Farrukhsiyar in 1717.
Mission was led by John Surman.

Question 22

Treaty of Ryswick?

Answer 22

Dutch captured Pondicherry in 1693.
Treaty of Ryswick in September 1697 restored Pondicherry to the French.

Question 23

First Carnatic War (1740-48).
1. Background
2. Immediate Cause
3. Result
4. Significance ?

Answer 23

1. Background– it was an extension of the Anglo-French war in Europe which was caused by the Austrian war of succession.
2. Immediate Cause– English navy under Barnet seized some French ships to provoke France. France retaliated by seizing Madras.
3. Result– Treaty of Aix-La Chapelle, Madras returned to English and French got their territories in North America.
4. Significance– remembered for the battle at St Thome.

Question 24

Second Carnatic War (1749-54).
1. Background
2. Immediate Cause
3. Course of the War
4. Result
5. Implication ?

Answer 24

1. Background– Dupleix interfered in local dynastic disputes to defeat the English.
2. Immediate Cause– The French supported the claims of Muzaffar Jang and Chanda Sahib in Deccan and Carnatic, respectively, while the English sided with the Nasir Jang and Anwar-ud-din.
3. Course of the War– The combined armies of Muzaffar Jang, Chanda Sahib and the French defeated and killed Anwar-ud-din at the Battle of Ambur (near Vellore) in 1749.
4. Result–French suffered heavy financial losses. The English and the French agreed not to interfere in the quarrels of native princes. Treaty of Pondicherry.
5. Implication– It became evident that the countenance of the Indian authority was no longer necessary for European success; rather Indian authority itself was becoming dependent on European support.

Question 25

Third Carnatic War (1758-63)
1. Background
2. Course of War in India
3. Result and significance ?

Answer 25

1. Background– In Europe, when Austria wanted to recover Silesia in 1756, the seven years War started.
2. Course of War in India– In 1758, the French army under Count de Lally captured the English forts of St. David and Vizianagaram. General Eyre Coote of the English totally routed the French army under Count de Lally in Battle of Wandiwash (1760) and took Bussy as prisoner.
3. Result and significance– The treaty of Peace of Paris restored to the French their factories in India, the French political influence disappeared after the war. English became the Supreme European power as the Dutch had already been defeated in the Battle of Bidara in 1759.

Question 26

Danish East India Company was established in India in _____ and they founded a factory at _______ near Tanjore, on the eastern coast of India. Their principal settlement was at _______ near Calcutta.

Answer 26

1616, Tranquebar, Serampore.

Question 27

Which Portuguese Governor captured Bhatkal from Sri Krishna Deva Rai (1510) of Vijayanagara?

Answer 27

Alonso de Albuquerque.

Question 28

Dutch factories in India?

Answer 28

1. Masulipatnam– 1605
2. Pulicat– 1616
3. Bimlipatnam– 1641
4. Karikal– 1645
5. Chinsurah– 1653
6. Cassimbazar (Kasimbazar), Baranagore, Patna, Balasore
7. Nagapatam– 1658
8. Cochin– 1663.