INDIAN HISTORY
Advent of Europeans - Trade centers - In India under the Company
(Set 2)
Notes prepared by : Praturi Potayya Sarma
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1)The old trading routes between the East and the West
came under Turkish control after the _________ conquest of Asia Minor and the
capture of Constantinople in 1453 AD.
a) Ottoman
2)The merchants of Venice and Genoa monopolized the trade
between Europe and Asia, and refused to
let the new nation states of Western Europe, particularly___________ countries,
have any share in the trade through these routes.
a)Spain and Portugal
3) Spice Islands inIndonesia, in olden days were known as what ?
a)East Indies
4)West European states and merchants wanted to break the
Arab and Venetian trade monopolies, to bypass which country hostility ?
a)Turkish
5)Which had generated a great spirit of adventure among
the people of Western Europe ?
a) Renaissance
6)Which countries governments seamen of their countries,
for geographical discoveries ?
a)Portugal and Spain
7)In 1498 AD, Vasco da Gama of Portugal discovered a new
and all-sea route from Europe to India . He sailed which place and reached
Calicut ?
a) Sailed round
Africa via the Cape of Good Hope
8) Under the
viceroyalty of Alfonso d’Albuquerque, who captured Goa in 1510, domination over
the entire Asian coast from_______ in the Persian Gulf to Malacca in Malaya and
Spice Islands in Indonesia.
a)Hormuz
9)Who surnamed the ‘the Navigator’ inspired and encouraged Portuguese sailors to
undertake voyages for the discovery of the sea route to India ?
a)Prince Henry of Portugal
10)When Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama arrived at
Calcut ,on the west coast of India.
a)1498
11) Who was the Raja of Calicut ?
a)Zamorin . Portuguese were well received by him
12)What are the aims of Portuguese ?
(a)to divert the Asian trade to Europe from land routes
controlled by the Muslims to the newly discovered sea route which was
controlled by the Portuguese
(b)to advance eastwards from India to South-East Asia
( c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
Ans : c
13)Whose
policy is known as the ‘blue water’ policy. The ‘blue water ‘ policy was
reversed by Alfranso de Albuquerque , Portugal.
a)Francisco
De Almeida
14)
Who conquered Goa in 1510 and Malacca (Malaysia) in 1511 ?
a)
Alfranso de Albuquerque , Portugal
15)Which
Vijayanagar ruler , maintained friendly relations with the Portuguese and
allowed them to retain Goa ?
a)Sri
Krishna Deva Raya
16)Which
Dutch traveler spent nine years in South
East Asia and returned home in 1592?
a)Van
Linschoten
17)What
is Campagnie Van Verre ?
a)
It is a syndicate. In 1595 it was formed in Dutch
18)Under
whose command a trade expedition to South East Asia was sent from Dutch ?
a)
Cornelis de Hontman
19)The Dutch expedition reached which
port on the North West Coast of Java in June , 1596?
a)Bantam
20)
What is the full form of VOC of Netherlands (Dutch)?
a)Vereenigde
Oostindishce Compagnia (United East India Company of the the Netherlands) was
formed under the patronage of the State .
21)In
India , VOC established factories at Surat , Machilkipatnam and Pataploli
(Krishna District). Where the other Dutch settlements?
a)Nagapattinam
b)Narasapuram
c)Bheemunipatnam,
Chinsurali (Bengal)
d)All
the above
And
: d
22)The
third voyage is memorable since for the first time, the English landed at Surat
in 1608. Who went to Mughal court and was given an audience by Emperor Jahangir
?
a)Captain
Hawkins
23)Which
place was given by Emperor Jahangir for the English to settle ?
a)Surat
24)The
English Company despatched a ship called ‘Globe’ under the command of Hippon to
engage in trade in the Bay of Bengal and the Gulof of Siam. ‘Globe’ arrived at
________ in January , 1611.
a)Machilipatnam
25)
Jahangir granted a firman in 1613 AD allowing the English Company to establish
a permanent factory at which place ?
a)Surat
26)From
King James I of England , who was sent to the court of Jahangir as an
ambassador ?
a)Sir
Thomas Roe in 1615
27)
Who felt that ‘A war and traffic are incompatible’ and advised his countrymen
to ‘seek profit as sea and quiet trade’?
a)Sir
Thomas Roe
28)In
1620 AD the Portuguese fleet was defeated off Jask on the coast of Persia and
two years later it helped the Shah of Persia to capture _____ from the
Portuguese.
a)Ormuz
29)
The Portuguese ceased to be the rivals of the English in India because which of
the following ?
a)Portuguese
defeats off Jask( in Iran) on the coast of Persia and capture of Ormuz by Shah
of Persia ?
30)
In 1635 AD, the Portuguese government at Goa concluded peace with president of
English company at which place ?
a)Surat
31)
In the year 1611, the English founded their settlement at Masulipatnam, which
was their headquarters until they finally moved to Madras in 1641. In 1761, in return for supporting Nizam Ali Khan
in his succession to Golconda, the English secured their first division at
__________ from the Nizams.
a)Masulipatnam
31)Initially, the division was administered by a Chief and
a Council at Masulipatnam. In 1794, Collectors, directly responsible to the
Board of Revenue were appointed at Masulipatnam, making _______ collectorate,
one among the oldest Collectorates in the Country.
a)Krishna
32) “Revsgeschrift” (in 1595) and “Itineratio” (in 1596)
books were written by whom ?
a)Dutch traveler Van Linschoten
33) In July, 1619 AD treaty of defence allowed which of
the following ?
a)The East India Company to have a third share of the
spice trade of the Moluccas.
34)Which of the following items from Andhra were very much in demand in markets in South
–East Asia ?
a)Calicoes
b)Chintzes (i.e., Kalamkari )
c)Palampores
d)All the above
Ans : d
35)Which was the famous port of Golconda ?
Ans : Machilipatnam
36)Who offered Madraspatnam (on July 22, 1639) in
Chandragiri dominion to the English to establish a factory ?
a)Damerla Venkatadri, the Governor of the Rajah of
Chandragiriand his broth Aiyappa
37) Which of the following is correct ?
a) Thomas Clarke :
English agent at Machilipatnam
b) Francis Day : Subordinate of Thomas Clarke at Armagoan
c)David Middleton : Commanded fifth voyage of English
Company
d)All the above
38)When the construction of Fort St.George (Madrasapatnam) began by
Francis Day , the English ?
a)March, 1640
39)Who is Damerla Chennappa, on whose name Chenna Patnam
was named ?
a)Father of Damerla Venkatadri
25) When the Madras was made Chief of English factories
on the east coast ?
a)1641 AD
40)Who conquered the neighbourhood of Madras in 1647 AD ?
a)Mir Jumla
41) In 1635 a group of London merchants headed by Sir
William Courten secured licence from whom for trade in the East ?
a)Charles I
42)Charles II got Bombay from whom , and in 1688 AD (as
part of the dowry of his wife Catherine of Braganza), he gave it to the company
for a nominal rent of 10 British Pounds a year ?
a)King of Portugal
43)What is Godolphin’s award (around 1708 AD)?
a)The two English companies were amalgamated under the title ‘United Company
of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies”
44)Which is betten known as “The Honorable East India
Company” and its corporate existence continued down to the munity of 1857 AD?
a)”United Company of Merchants of England trading to the
East Indies “
45)’La Compagnie Des Indes’ company belongs to whom ?
a)France
32)’La Compagnie Des Indes’ established trading settlements at which of the
following?
a)Machilipatnam (1669)
b)Pondicherry (1673); Chandranagaore (1690)
c)Mahe, Kariakal, Yanam
d) All the above
And:
46)Which of the following is correct ?
a)Berhampur was noted for its quality silks
b)Srikakulam famous for its muslins
c)Machilipatnam was world famous centre for chintzes and
palmpores
d)All the above
Ans : d
47)Where the first struggle between the English and
French in India took place during 1744-48?
a)in the place of Carnatic
48) Which was called as an extension of the Austrian
Succession War which broke out in Europe in 1740 where England and France took
opposite sides?
a)Struggle between the English and French in the Carnatic
during 1744-48
49)Where the French
forces were able to defeat the huge army of Nawab of Carnatic?
a)Adyar
50) The Austrian Succession War came to an end in 1748 AD
by which treaty ?
a)Aix-La-Chapelle
51)For the throne of the Carnatic, dispute rose between
whom ?
a)Chanda Sahib and Anwaruddin
52)On June 2, 1748 when the Nizam of Hyderabad died a
dispute for succession to the throne arose between whom ?
a)Muzaffar Jang
(grand son i.e.,daughter’s son) and
Nasir Jang (son of late Nizam)
53) French company officials supported whom ?
a)Muzaffar Jang and Chanda Sahib
55)English company officials supported whom ?
a)Nasir Jang and Mohammad Ali (the son of Answaruddin,
who was killed in a battle with Chanda Sahib at Ambur in 1749
56)Which is significant in the history of Andhra ?
a) Battle of Ambur
57)French Governor of Pondicherry, Dupleix made whom as
the Nawab of Carnatic ?
a)Chanda Sahib
58)Who granted to the French, Masulipatnam and Divi ?
a)Muzaffar Jang
59)When the Third Carnatic War broke out ?
a) 1758 AD
60)The Raja of Vijayanagaram , Ananda Gajapathi Raju
corresponded with whom at Madras and Robert Clive in Bengal ?
a) The British authorities
61) Robert Clive established British supremacy in Bengal,
after which battle in 1757 AD ?
a)Battle of Plassey
62)Responding to the invitation of the
Vijayanagaram ruler, whom Robert Clive sent to meet Ananda Gajapathi Raju?
a)Col.Forde
49)When the British East India Company and the ruler of
Vijayangaram entered into a treaty ?
a) November 21, 1758
50) In the battle of Chandurthi, in East Godavari
district (undivided), the French forces were defeated by whom ?
a)combined forces of Ananda Gajapati Raju and Col. Forde.
51) On May 14, 1759 Salabat Jang ceded to the British
which of the following ?
a)Nizamapatnam
b)portions of the circars of Machilipatnam
c) Kondapalle
d)All the above
Ans : d
52) When Nizam Ali (4th son of Nizam-ul-Mulk)
usurped the throne ?
a)1762 AD
53)Nizam Ali was willing to grant three middle circars to
the British in return for what ?
a)Military help against Marathas
54)When Guntur circar came under the British control ?
a)September 18, 1788 (Nizam surrendered it to Cornwallis)
55)Who sent Kandregula Jogipantulu to Hyderabad to open
negotiations with the Nizam?
a)John Pybus, the British resident of East India Company
at Machilipatnam
56)Who is Jogipantulu ?
a)Well known dubashee of the Northern Circars
b)He held high esteem by Rukh-ud-daula, the Diwan of the
Nizam
c) He reached Hyderabad to open negotiations with Nizam. He
followed Nizam and Diwan when they went to Rajahmundry and utilized the
opportunity to negotiate the lease of five Northern circars to the company for
a sum of rupees 15 lakhs.
d)All the above
Ans : d
