Social Science Section II

Question 1

Who granted special trading right to the EIC that allowed the EIC to export goods from India without paying duties except duties except for a yearly fee?

Answer 1

Farrukhsiyar

Question 2

Who attacked the British in Calcutta in June of 1756, imprisoning forty English residents who went on to suffocate in jail?

Answer 2

Siraj-ud-Daula

Question 3

Who brought 10,000 English troops to Bengal and, with the support of Mir Jafar, dethroned and executed Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula of Bengal at Plassey?

Answer 3

Lord Robert Clive

Question 4

Who was the first English Governor-General of India, serving from 1772 to 1785?

Answer 4

Sir Warren Hastings

Question 5

Who is considered the key British politician in the passing of the Permanent Settlement, which was to last until Indian independence in 1947?

Answer 5

Lord Cornwallis

Question 6

Who created the doctrine of lapse and played a major role in the development of Indian railways, irrigation projects, postal services, and the telegraph in India?

Answer 6

Earl of Dalhouse

Question 7

Who was the ruler of Mysore in the Deccan Plateau who fought wars with the EIC three seperate times over eleven years and was finally defeated in 1799?

Answer 7

Tipu Sultan

Question 8

Who was a Shia Muslim reformer in Delhi who promoted stricter adherence to Islam?

Answer 8

Shah Waliullah

Question 9

Who was an intellectual who advocated for reform and renewal in Hinduism and was an important figure in the Bengali Renaissance?

Answer 9

Rammonhun Roy

Question 10

Who was a Bengali peasant who advocated for reform in Islam as well as in the zamindari and colonial power systems, protesting peasant abuse?

Answer 10

Shariat Allah

Question 11

By the 17th and 18th centuries, it was evident that the English intended to soon control and rule much of Indian territory and would likely be successful

Answer 11

False

Question 12

The English East India Company was chartered by Queen Elizabeth and owned and run by the crown

Answer 12

False

Question 13

The Battle of Buxar resulted in the Treaty of Allahabad

Answer 13

True

Question 14

The Permanent Settlement was an EIC agreement in Begal that fixed the rate of land tax collected by the company and created a new landowning clause

Answer 14

True

Question 15

The East India Company developed key Indian infrastructure in the 19th century, including railways and the postal system

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Indian responses to English critiques of the Hindu practices of the sati were mixed

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Opium was one of the EIC’s largest comodoties

Answer 17

True

Question 18

The Blue Mutiny was an uprising against the growing of indigo because the crop was unstable

Answer 18

True

Question 19

• Adopted in the late 18th century

- Implemented a fixed rate for land taxes

Answer 19

Permanent settlement

Question 20

• The representation of the Middle East in a stereotyped way

Answer 20

Orientalism

Question 21

• Ensuring the greatest good for the greatest number of people

Answer 21

Utilitarianism

Question 22

• The idea that an area could not prosper without adopting western ideals

Answer 22

Anglicism

Question 23

• Local government functions on its own by paid a tax to the EIC for this privilege

Answer 23

Subsidiary alliance

Question 24

• A view that the English were the greatest power

- Supremacy

Answer 24

Paramountcy

Question 25

• The EIC had the right to take control if its Indian ruler did not have a son

Answer 25

Doctrine of Lapse