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Important Questions on From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power

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ThinkTrail CULTURAL CHRONICLES A Coursebook for Social Science Grade 8>Chapter 4 - From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power>Q 48
Which of the following Nawab of Bengal asked the English East India Company to remove all its fortifications in Calcutta? 
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ThinkTrail CULTURAL CHRONICLES A Coursebook for Social Science Grade 8>Chapter 4 - From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power>Q 51

On the outline map of India given below, mark and label the following.

Two French colonies in southern India.

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ThinkTrail CULTURAL CHRONICLES A Coursebook for Social Science Grade 8>Chapter 4 - From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power>Q 52
_____ was the Governor-General of India from 1772 to 1785. (Warren Hastings/Lord Dalhousie)
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ThinkTrail CULTURAL CHRONICLES A Coursebook for Social Science Grade 8>Chapter 4 - From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power>Q 53

On the outline map of India given below, mark and label the following.

Two Portuguese colonies in western India.

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ThinkTrail CULTURAL CHRONICLES A Coursebook for Social Science Grade 8>Chapter 4 - From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power>Q 54

The Battle of Buxar was fought in the year _____. (1857/1764)

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ThinkTrail CULTURAL CHRONICLES A Coursebook for Social Science Grade 8>Chapter 4 - From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power>Q 55
Why did the companies prefer the coast to set up their trading centres? 
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ThinkTrail CULTURAL CHRONICLES A Coursebook for Social Science Grade 8>Chapter 4 - From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power>Q 56
What were factories? Why were they called so?
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ThinkTrail CULTURAL CHRONICLES A Coursebook for Social Science Grade 8>Chapter 4 - From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power>Q 57
The East India Company obtained the right to trade in India without paying customs duties in the year_____. (1717/1720)