Advent of Europeans

When was the Indian Forest Service set up by Brandish?

With whose permission did the English set up their first factory in Surat?

The first Round Table Conference was held in London in

Who was the last but one Viceroy of British India?

In which year did the East-India Company acquire the Diwani of Bengal?

In which of the following years was the Diwani of Bengal transferred to the East India Company?

Chandernagore (Chandannagar) was a _____ colony captured by the British Navy on $23$ March $1757$? 

In the Battle of Swally ($1612$) the British fought against the ______.

Which French Governor captured Madras?

The British commander during the Battle of Wandiwash was

Regarding British industrial capitalism which of the following is NOT correct ?

A journalist was arrested by the police for passing on information on the movement of troops in Ladakh thereby violating the Official Secrets Act. The original Act (since amended after independence) was a result of the British seeking to muzzle the nationalist press in India. Who was the Viceroy of lndia when the Act was enacted?

The Assam government has approved the addition of $30.53$ sq. km. to the Kaziranga National Park. The history of protection in Kaziranga dates back to the early twentieth century, when the wife of the Viceroy of India, first visited the Kaziranga area in $1904$. Who was the Viceroy of lndia at that point of time?

Examine the statements in the context of Orientalism.

1. It was reflected in the study of lndian culture, tradition and languages

2. It resulted in establishing institutions like Asiatic society of Bengal, the Calcutta madrasa.

3. Orientalism became well entrenched in the mid-$19\mathrm{th}$ Century colonial India.

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Examine the following statements:

1. Colebrook established the structural similarities between Greek and Sanskrit.

2. Orientalists believed that India's scientific achievements had much to teach Europe

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Who said, "The Sanskrit language whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure: more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have possibly been produced by accident'?

The British resorted to different strategies/methods to acquire new territories in India:

1. Subsidiary alliance to acquire Hyderabad

2. Doctrine of Lapse to acquire Satara

3. War to grab the land of Marathas

4. Mal-administration to annex Awadh

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Battle of Plassey ($23\mathrm{rd}$ June $1757$) was fought because of

1. Inept policies of Siraj-ud-daulah

2. Conspiracy of Jagat Seth, Mir Jafar and the British against the Nawab.

3. Imperialist ambition of British merchants to intervene in Bengal polity.

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Consider the following statements:

1. Macaulay was instrumental in formulating the Thuggee Act ($1936$) and in drafting the Indian penal code.

2. Progressive taxation was seriously contemplated by the imperial state in the late $19\mathrm{th}$ Century.

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Read the following statements:

1. The British colonial policy in India was shaped in the larger context of British expansionist policy.

2. The British conquest of Spain during the Tudor period helped shape the British image of themselves as Imperialists.

3: The British claimed they had a god given responsibility to inhabit and reform so barbarous a nation as India.

4. The tropical climate of India was seen as a reason for 'Eastern Corruption'.

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