pre 1857 Flashcards
) Consider the following statements.
1. The English acquired Bombay by defeating the French under Dupleix.
2. The East India Company purchased Madras from a local ruler than a conquest.
3. The Nawab of Arcot completely waived import and export duties for the English.
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2,3 correct
Which among the following can be considered to be the consequences of the rise of EIC’s trade?.
1. The decline of Indian trade with Malayan archipelago
2. Decay of the Masulipatnam port
3. Spice trade overshadowing textiles trade
4. Re-export of Indian goods to markets in Europe and Asia
1, 2 and 4 only
Indian textiles were hugely fashionable and induced a ten-fold increase in the Company’s purchase and export of cotton piece goods from India between the 1660s and the 1680s. Textiles also overshadowed the spice trade, initially drawing Europeans to India. So, Statement 3 is not correct.
Consider the following statements regarding 18th-century India.
1. The term coolie was used by the English to refer to weavers.
2. Chulias were the only important ship owners on the coromandel coast.
3. The trade from coromandel constituted two-thirds of the English trade in the east.
he derogatory term ‘coolie’ was used by the English to designate weavers who had been independent craftsmen and was representative of their change in status from being freedom of labor to wage laborers.
Virtually the only important Indian ship-owners on the coast, the Chulias had capital, middlemen contacts in weaving villages and excellent connections with the Islamic states of the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra at their disposal. The Europeans were indulgent to this challenge since Coromandel and
South East Asian trade constituted only a small part of their much wider trading cycle. Besides, the help of Chulia Muslims came in handy in establishing new trading posts, such as the one in Penang in 1786.
Consider the following statements.
1. Hughli was an important French settlement before the English stepped in.
2. The English built the Victoria memorial at Calcutta.
3. Due to the Mughal pressure, the English moved to Calcutta from Hughli
- portugese–> dutch—> british
(no french)
The Victoria memorial was built by the then prince of Wales in 1921 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria of England. So, Statement 2 is correct.
3 is correct
Consider the following statements regarding 18th-century India.
1. The Marathas supported the shrine of Shaikh Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer.
2. Tippu sultan gave patronage to the Shringeri temple.
3. The Raja of Tanjore extended support to the shrine of Shaikh Shahul Hamid of Nagaur.
all correct
Consider the following statements regarding 18th-century India.
1. It was common for post-Mughal states to employ mercenary soldiers and imported scribes and clerks.
2. The kingdom of Hyderabad employed Kayasthas in large numbers.
3. Long-distance pilgrimages declined dramatically due to decreased mobility
It was common for post-Mughal states to employ mercenary soldiers and imported scribes and clerks. In eighteenth-century Hyderabad, for example, Kayasthas (scribes) from the north were employed in large
numbers in the bureaucracy. So, Statements 1 and 2 are correct.
The interaction of popular Hinduism and Islam gave a particular flavour to cultural activities associated with pilgrimages and festivals. So the tradition of long-distance pilgrimages to major centers from
Varanasi to Rameswaram increased and can be seen to fit in with a general trend of increasing mobility.
So, Statement 3 is not correct.
Vasco Da Gama was the first to have reached the Cape of Good Hope in the quest for a sea route
It was in 1487 that the Portuguese navigator, Bartholomew Dias, rounded the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and sailed up the eastern coast; he was well convinced that the long sought-after sea route to India had been found. But it was only ten years later that an expedition of Portuguese ships set out for
India (in 1497) and arrived in India in slightly less than eleven months, in May 1498.
- A Gujarati pilot named Abdul Majid aided Vasco Da Gama in reaching the Indian coast.
- Vasco Da Gama eventually reached Calicut, where Zamorin welcomed him.
- Vasco Da Gama negotiated and established a factory in Calicut.
1 and 2 only
A voyage was undertaken by Pedro Alvarez Cabral to trade for spices; he negotiated and established a factory at Calicut, where he arrived in September 1500. So, Statement 3 is not correct.
Consider the following statements regarding the advent of Europeans.
1. Dupleix was the first European to interfere in the internal matters of Indian rulers.
2. Dupleix was the originator of the Subsidiary alliance in India.
3. The French army was deployed at Hyderabad by Dupliex.
all correct
who did ahmad shah abdali recognize as mughal emperor
Ahmad Shah Abdali (or Ahmad Shah Durrani), who was elected the successor of Nadir Shah after the
latter’s death in 1747, invaded India several times between 1748 and 1767. He continuously harassed the Mughals, who tried to buy peace in 1751-52 by ceding Punjab to him. In 1757, Abdali captured Delhi
and left behind an Afghan caretaker to watch over the Mughal emperor. Before his return, Abdali had recognized Alamgir II as the Mughal emperor and the Rohilla chief, Najib-ud-Daula, as Mir Bakhshi of
the empire, who was to act as the personal ‘supreme agent’ of Abdali. Thus the state of Rohilakhand was not carved out of the Mughal Empir
