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In which year was the English East India Company founded?Read the answer and worked solution →The Company set up its first Indian factory in 1611 at which eastern coast town?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Mughal emperor granted the Company rights to a factory at Surat in 1612?Read the answer and worked solution →Where was the Company's second factory on the south-east coast built in 1640?Read the answer and worked solution →Bombay island came to England as a dowry in whose marriage to Charles II?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Mughal emperor let the Company establish itself on the eastern coast after the Anglo-Mughal War?Read the answer and worked solution →On what date was the Battle of Plassey fought?Read the answer and worked solution →Who led the Company's forces to victory at Plassey?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, defeated at Plassey?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was installed as Nawab after Siraj-ud-Daulah's defeat, with Company support?Read the answer and worked solution →Siraj-ud-Daulah succeeded which relative as Nawab of Bengal in 1756?Read the answer and worked solution →Of the 146 prisoners held in the Black Hole dungeon, how many walked out alive?Read the answer and worked solution →The Black Hole dungeon was part of which fort in Calcutta?Read the answer and worked solution →Clive and Admiral Watson sailed to retake Calcutta from which presidency town?Read the answer and worked solution →Which French town in Bengal did Clive attack in March 1757?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did Clive have two treaties, red and white, drawn up with Mir Jafar?Read the answer and worked solution →After Plassey, which Nawab did the Company depose in favour of Mir Qasim?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1764 battle in Bihar further consolidated Company power?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Mughal emperor was forced to appoint the Company as diwan of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa?Read the answer and worked solution →What right did the Company gain when it was granted the diwani in 1765?Read the answer and worked solution →Who became the first Governor-General of Fort William in 1773?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Act of 1773 first brought the Company under British government regulation?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was the British prime minister when the Regulating Act 1773 was passed?Read the answer and worked solution →The Regulating Act made which presidency supreme over Madras and Bombay?Read the answer and worked solution →Pitt's India Act left political control with the Company but created which supervising body?Read the answer and worked solution →Who chiefly coordinated the impeachment of Warren Hastings?Read the answer and worked solution →In what year did the trial of Warren Hastings end in his acquittal?Read the answer and worked solution →The Charter Act 1813 ended the Company's trade monopoly except for which items?Read the answer and worked solution →Who promulgated the Permanent Settlement of land revenue in 1793?Read the answer and worked solution →Why was the 1793 land revenue arrangement called permanent?Read the answer and worked solution →

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In which year was the English East India Company founded?

  1. 1600
  2. 1707
  3. 1664
  4. 1557
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Correct answer: A. 1600

1. The English company began as a body of London merchants trading with the East Indies. 2. It was founded in 1600, long before it held any territory in India. 3. 1664 and 1707 are later dates; 1557 is too early for the English Company. _Source: Wikipedia, Company rule in India, Expansion and territory_

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The Company set up its first Indian factory in 1611 at which eastern coast town?

  1. Masulipatnam
  2. Madras fort
  3. Calcutta town
  4. Surat city
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Correct answer: A. Masulipatnam

1. The Company first gained a foothold on the Coromandel side of India. 2. A factory was set up in Masulipatnam in 1611. 3. Surat came a year later (1612) on the west coast; Madras (1640) and Calcutta came later still. _Source: Wikipedia, Company rule in India, Expansion and territory_

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Which Mughal emperor granted the Company rights to a factory at Surat in 1612?

  1. Jahangir
  2. Shah Jahan
  3. Akbar
  4. Aurangzeb
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Correct answer: A. Jahangir

1. The grant for Surat came in 1612. 2. It was issued by the Mughal emperor Jahangir. 3. Akbar had died earlier, and Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb ruled later. _Source: Wikipedia, Company rule in India, Expansion and territory_

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