Modern Sources and British Expansion Questions and Answers

Q: Indian nationalist characterised British conquest of India as "Everlasting, increasing, everyday increasing foreign invasion"

The nationalist was Dadabhai Naoroji ('Dada Bai Naorojee' in the paper).In his writings on the drain of wealth, collected in Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (1901), Naoroji argued that British rule was worse than the old invasions: earlier invaders plundered and left, but the British drain was an everlasting, ever-increasing foreign invasion that took India's wealth year after year.Romesh Chunder Dutt also wrote on the drain in his Economic History of India, but the phrase is Naoroji's. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was a novelist, and Surendranath Banerjee is known for the Indian Association and his political speeches.

Q: Which of the following related with 1857 Revolt is not correctly matched ?

The wrongly matched pair is Bihar - Hafiz Rahmat Khan.The revolt of 1857 in Bihar was led by Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur. Hafiz Rahmat Khan was a Rohilla chief of the eighteenth century who died fighting the Nawab of Awadh and the Company in 1774; in 1857 it was his descendant Khan Bahadur Khan who led the rising at Bareilly.The other pairs are correct: General Bakht Khan commanded the rebel forces at Delhi, Begum Hazrat Mahal led at Lucknow, and Maulvi Ahmadullah led the rising at Faizabad ('Farizabhad' in the paper).

Q: Which specific Trade Agreement, prior to the arrival of the East India Company, significantly altered the balance of maritime power in the Arabian Sea, thereby indirectly contributing to the later vulnerability of Malabar's Coastal Trade ?

The agreement was the Portuguese-Calicut Trade Accord (1513).After years of conflict, including Albuquerque's failed assault on Calicut in 1510, the new Zamorin made peace with the Portuguese in 1513 and allowed them to build a fortified factory at Calicut. That settlement gave the Portuguese a foothold in the Zamorin's own port and strengthened their system of controlling Arabian Sea shipping through licences (cartaz), weakening the older Arab and Mappila trade network on which Malabar's coastal commerce depended.A Venetian-Cochin treaty of 1487 would predate Vasco da Gama's arrival in 1498, and there is no record of an Ottoman-Travancore maritime pact of 1625. The Jeddah option is not an agreement involving Malabar.

Q: Which Nayaka of Chitradurga fought against Hyder Ali ?

The Nayaka was Madakari Nayaka V.Madakari Nayaka V was the last ruler of the Nayakas of Chitradurga. He resisted Hyder Ali of Mysore, who finally captured the Chitradurga fort in 1779. The defence of the fort is remembered through the story of Onake Obavva, who fought the invaders with a pestle.Madakari Nayaka I, II and III were earlier rulers of the line and did not face Hyder Ali.

Q: Which of the following statements about British East India Company are true ?A. It was formed in 1599 by a group of merchants known as The Merchant Adventurers.B. It was granted a charter by Queen Elizabeth in 1600 giving monopoly of eastern trade for an indefinite period.C. It decided to open a factory at Surat in 1608.D. Company's monopoly of trade was abolished by James I in 1609.Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Statements A and C are true, so the answer is A and C only.As textbooks describe it, the company was formed in 1599 by merchants known as the Merchant Adventurers (A), and in 1608 it decided to open a factory at Surat on the west coast of India (C).Queen Elizabeth's charter of 31 December 1600 gave the company a monopoly of eastern trade for fifteen years, not for an indefinite period, so B is wrong. In 1609 James I renewed the charter for an indefinite period rather than abolishing the monopoly, so D is wrong.

Q: By the treaty of Allahabad of 1765, the East India Company obtained ________ .

The Company obtained the Diwani Rights of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.After its victory at Buxar (1764), the East India Company under Robert Clive signed the Treaty of Allahabad in 1765 with the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, who granted it the diwani, the right to collect the land revenue of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, in return for an annual tribute.The Company did not gain trading rights over the Coromandel coast, a right to interfere in Delhi's politics, or permission to build a fort at Hugli through this treaty.

Q: Which whom did the British make the treaty of Mandsaur ?

The British made the treaty of Mandsaur with Malhar Rao Holkar.After the Holkar army was defeated at the battle of Mahidpur in December 1817, during the Third Anglo-Maratha War, the young Malhar Rao Holkar II had to sign the Treaty of Mandsaur in January 1818. The Holkars ceded territory, accepted a subsidiary force and became a princely state under British protection.Yashwant Rao Holkar had died in 1811, Tukoji Rao Holkar ruled in the eighteenth century, and Kashi Rao Holkar was an earlier rival claimant; none of them made the 1818 treaty.

Q: Where was the Western Presidency situated in the early period of the East India Company?

The Western Presidency was at Surat.The English East India Company set up its first factory in western India at Surat in 1613, after a farman from the Mughal emperor Jahangir. Surat, the chief Mughal port, became the headquarters of the Company's western presidency, under a President who controlled its other factories in the region.Bombay, received by the English Crown in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry and leased to the Company in 1668, became the seat of the presidency only in 1687, after the early period. Satara was a Maratha seat, and Panaji was in Portuguese Goa, so neither was ever an English presidency.

Q: Who was the Correspondent of the Newspaper 'Times' published from London in 1857 wrote that "Nobody in the North India looks at white man's car with friendly view" ?

The correspondent was W. H. Russel (William Howard Russell).William Howard Russell of The Times of London, often called the first modern war correspondent after his reports from the Crimean War, was sent to India to report on the uprising of 1857 and its suppression. His dispatches and his My Diary in India describe the hostility towards the British that he met in northern India.The other options were British politicians, not journalists: Sir Robert Peel, who died in 1850, and Gladstone and Palmerston, who were Prime Ministers.

Q: With which misal was Ranjit Singh related ?

Ranjit Singh belonged to the Shukarchakiya misl.Maharaja Ranjit Singh (born 1780) was the son of Maha Singh, chief of the Sukerchakia misl centred on Gujranwala. Building on that base, he united the Sikh misls and founded the Sikh kingdom of Punjab, taking Lahore in 1799.The Ahluwalia misl was led by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, and the Kanhaiya misl was led by Sada Kaur, his mother-in-law, who helped him rise, but neither was his own misl. The Dallewalia was another of the twelve misls.

41.

Indian nationalist characterised British conquest of India as "Everlasting, increasing, everyday increasing foreign invasion"

A.Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
B.Dada Bai Naorojee
C.Surendra Nath Banerjee
D.Romesh Chandra Dutt

Exam Year(s)

Kerala PSC KAS - 2020,

Answer: B

The nationalist was Dadabhai Naoroji ('Dada Bai Naorojee' in the paper).

In his writings on the drain of wealth, collected in Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (1901), Naoroji argued that British rule was worse than the old invasions: earlier invaders plundered and left, but the British drain was an everlasting, ever-increasing foreign invasion that took India's wealth year after year.

Romesh Chunder Dutt also wrote on the drain in his Economic History of India, but the phrase is Naoroji's. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was a novelist, and Surendranath Banerjee is known for the Indian Association and his political speeches.

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42.

Which of the following related with 1857 Revolt is not correctly matched ?

A.Delhi- General Bakht Khan
B.Lucknow- Hazrat Mahal
C.Bihar- Hafiz Rahmat Khan
D.Farizabhad- Maulavi Ahmadullah

Exam Year(s)

Kerala PSC KAS - 2020,

Answer: C

The wrongly matched pair is Bihar - Hafiz Rahmat Khan.

The revolt of 1857 in Bihar was led by Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur. Hafiz Rahmat Khan was a Rohilla chief of the eighteenth century who died fighting the Nawab of Awadh and the Company in 1774; in 1857 it was his descendant Khan Bahadur Khan who led the rising at Bareilly.

The other pairs are correct: General Bakht Khan commanded the rebel forces at Delhi, Begum Hazrat Mahal led at Lucknow, and Maulvi Ahmadullah led the rising at Faizabad ('Farizabhad' in the paper).

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43.

Which specific Trade Agreement, prior to the arrival of the East India Company, significantly altered the balance of maritime power in the Arabian Sea, thereby indirectly contributing to the later vulnerability of Malabar's Coastal Trade ?

A.The Treaty of Jeddah (1559)
B.The Venetian-Cochin Spice Treaty (1487)
C.The Portuguese-Calicut Trade Accord (1513)
D.The Ottoman-Travancore Maritime Pact (1625)

Exam Year(s)

Kerala PSC KAS - 2025,

Answer: C

The agreement was the Portuguese-Calicut Trade Accord (1513).

After years of conflict, including Albuquerque's failed assault on Calicut in 1510, the new Zamorin made peace with the Portuguese in 1513 and allowed them to build a fortified factory at Calicut. That settlement gave the Portuguese a foothold in the Zamorin's own port and strengthened their system of controlling Arabian Sea shipping through licences (cartaz), weakening the older Arab and Mappila trade network on which Malabar's coastal commerce depended.

A Venetian-Cochin treaty of 1487 would predate Vasco da Gama's arrival in 1498, and there is no record of an Ottoman-Travancore maritime pact of 1625. The Jeddah option is not an agreement involving Malabar.

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44.

Which Nayaka of Chitradurga fought against Hyder Ali ?

A.Madakari Nayaka I
B.Madakari Nayaka II
C.Madakari Nayaka III
D.Madakari Nayaka V

Exam Year(s)

KPSC KAS - 2020,

Answer: D

The Nayaka was Madakari Nayaka V.

Madakari Nayaka V was the last ruler of the Nayakas of Chitradurga. He resisted Hyder Ali of Mysore, who finally captured the Chitradurga fort in 1779. The defence of the fort is remembered through the story of Onake Obavva, who fought the invaders with a pestle.

Madakari Nayaka I, II and III were earlier rulers of the line and did not face Hyder Ali.

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45.

Which of the following statements about British East India Company are true ?

A. It was formed in 1599 by a group of merchants known as The Merchant Adventurers.
B. It was granted a charter by Queen Elizabeth in 1600 giving monopoly of eastern trade for an indefinite period.
C. It decided to open a factory at Surat in 1608.
D. Company's monopoly of trade was abolished by James I in 1609.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

A.A and D only
B.A, B and D only
C.A and C only
D.A and B only

Exam Year(s)

KPSC KAS - 2020,

Answer: C

Statements A and C are true, so the answer is A and C only.

As textbooks describe it, the company was formed in 1599 by merchants known as the Merchant Adventurers (A), and in 1608 it decided to open a factory at Surat on the west coast of India (C).

Queen Elizabeth's charter of 31 December 1600 gave the company a monopoly of eastern trade for fifteen years, not for an indefinite period, so B is wrong. In 1609 James I renewed the charter for an indefinite period rather than abolishing the monopoly, so D is wrong.

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46.

By the treaty of Allahabad of 1765, the East India Company obtained ________ .

A.Diwani Rights of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa
B.Trading Rights over Coromandel Coast
C.Right to interfere with the politics of Delhi
D.Acceptance by Nawab of Bengal to build a fort at Hugli

Exam Year(s)

KPSC KAS - 2020,

Answer: A

The Company obtained the Diwani Rights of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.

After its victory at Buxar (1764), the East India Company under Robert Clive signed the Treaty of Allahabad in 1765 with the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, who granted it the diwani, the right to collect the land revenue of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, in return for an annual tribute.

The Company did not gain trading rights over the Coromandel coast, a right to interfere in Delhi's politics, or permission to build a fort at Hugli through this treaty.

Discuss in Forum

47.

Which whom did the British make the treaty of Mandsaur ?

A.Malhar Rao Holkar
B.Yashwant Rao Holkar
C.Tukoji Rao Holkar
D.Kashi Rao Holkar

Exam Year(s)

MPPSC Forest Service - 2022,

Answer: A

The British made the treaty of Mandsaur with Malhar Rao Holkar.

After the Holkar army was defeated at the battle of Mahidpur in December 1817, during the Third Anglo-Maratha War, the young Malhar Rao Holkar II had to sign the Treaty of Mandsaur in January 1818. The Holkars ceded territory, accepted a subsidiary force and became a princely state under British protection.

Yashwant Rao Holkar had died in 1811, Tukoji Rao Holkar ruled in the eighteenth century, and Kashi Rao Holkar was an earlier rival claimant; none of them made the 1818 treaty.

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48.

Where was the Western Presidency situated in the early period of the East India Company?

A.Surat
B.Satara
C.Bombay
D.Panaji

Exam Year(s)

MPPSC State Service - 2018,

Answer: A

The Western Presidency was at Surat.

The English East India Company set up its first factory in western India at Surat in 1613, after a farman from the Mughal emperor Jahangir. Surat, the chief Mughal port, became the headquarters of the Company's western presidency, under a President who controlled its other factories in the region.

Bombay, received by the English Crown in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry and leased to the Company in 1668, became the seat of the presidency only in 1687, after the early period. Satara was a Maratha seat, and Panaji was in Portuguese Goa, so neither was ever an English presidency.

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49.

Who was the Correspondent of the Newspaper 'Times' published from London in 1857 wrote that "Nobody in the North India looks at white man's car with friendly view" ?

A.W. H. Russel
B.Robert Peel
C.Gladoston
D.Palmerston

Exam Year(s)

MPPSC State Service - 2021, MPPSC Forest Service - 2021,

Answer: A

The correspondent was W. H. Russel (William Howard Russell).

William Howard Russell of The Times of London, often called the first modern war correspondent after his reports from the Crimean War, was sent to India to report on the uprising of 1857 and its suppression. His dispatches and his My Diary in India describe the hostility towards the British that he met in northern India.

The other options were British politicians, not journalists: Sir Robert Peel, who died in 1850, and Gladstone and Palmerston, who were Prime Ministers.

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50.

With which misal was Ranjit Singh related ?

A.Aahluvaliyan
B.Dalevaliyan
C.Kanhaiya
D.Shukarchakiya

Exam Year(s)

MPPSC State Service - 2022, MPPSC Forest Service - 2022,

Answer: D

Ranjit Singh belonged to the Shukarchakiya misl.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh (born 1780) was the son of Maha Singh, chief of the Sukerchakia misl centred on Gujranwala. Building on that base, he united the Sikh misls and founded the Sikh kingdom of Punjab, taking Lahore in 1799.

The Ahluwalia misl was led by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, and the Kanhaiya misl was led by Sada Kaur, his mother-in-law, who helped him rise, but neither was his own misl. The Dallewalia was another of the twelve misls.

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