alleryStart learning →The English East India Company was founded in which year?
- 1600
- 1765
- 1707
- 1757
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Correct answer: A. 1600
The English East India Company was founded in 1600.
ICSE Class 8 East India Company — practice questions
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The English East India Company was founded in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Which English monarch granted the East India Company's founding charter?Read the answer and worked solution →The East India Company was originally formed mainly to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →What kind of commercial organisation was the East India Company?Read the answer and worked solution →In early Company trade, a 'factory' principally meant what?Read the answer and worked solution →Surat, an early Company trading centre, lies in which present-day state?Read the answer and worked solution →Thomas Roe's mission sought trading privileges from which Mughal emperor?Read the answer and worked solution →Which rival pushed English trade away from the Spice Islands?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair formed important Indian textile goods in the Company's trade?Read the answer and worked solution →Early European purchases of Indian goods caused bullion to flow mainly in which direction?Read the answer and worked solution →The Carnatic Wars were centred mainly in which part of India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which British advantage aided success against the French in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Company fort was associated with its settlement in Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Mughal emperor issued the Bengal trade privilege later misused by Company servants?Read the answer and worked solution →Which trade abuse angered Bengal's nawabs?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was Nawab of Bengal when the Battle of Plassey was fought?Read the answer and worked solution →Plassey marked a turning point in Bengal during which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Company officer won the 1757 battle against Siraj-ud-Daula?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Bengal commander secretly supported the Company against Siraj-ud-Daula?Read the answer and worked solution →After Plassey, how did Company influence in Bengal increase?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did the Company replace Mir Jafar in 1760?Read the answer and worked solution →Who replaced Mir Jafar as Nawab of Bengal in 1760?Read the answer and worked solution →Mir Qasim moved Bengal's capital from Murshidabad to which place?Read the answer and worked solution →How did Mir Qasim remove the Company's trade advantage?Read the answer and worked solution →Who allied with Mir Qasim before Buxar?Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the year of the Company's victory over the allied armies at Buxar.Read the answer and worked solution →At Buxar in 1764, the victorious Company's commander was whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Buxar, the site of the 1764 battle, lies in which present-day state?Read the answer and worked solution →Which treaty settled relations with the defeated rulers in 1765?Read the answer and worked solution →In the 1765 settlement, which right did 'Diwani' give the Company?Read the answer and worked solution →
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Which English monarch granted the East India Company's founding charter?
- Elizabeth I
- William III
- Charles II
- James I
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Correct answer: A. Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I granted the Company's charter in 1600.
The East India Company was originally formed mainly to do what?
- Collect Bengal's land revenue
- Administer Mughal provinces
- Govern Britain's American colonies
- Conduct trade in the East
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Correct answer: D. Conduct trade in the East
The Company began as an enterprise for eastern trade before acquiring territorial power.
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