initial modern india mcq set 1 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Answer: (d)

First Mysore War was ended by the treaty of Madras. The first Anglo-Mysore war proved indecisive and ended with a peace treaty in 1769. Haidar Ali dictated the treaty which provided for the exchange of prisoners and mutual restitution of conquests.

Answer: (a)

Farrukhsiyar gave an important Firman to the English of facilitating their trade in India. It was during Farrukhsiyar’s reign, in 1717, that the British East India Company purchased duty-free trading rights in all of Bengal for a mere three thousand rupees a year.

Answer: (b)

The Peshwa who engineered the capture of Salsette and Bassein from the Portuguese in 1739 was Baji Rao I.

In 1720, one of the ports of Bassein, Kalyan, was conquered by the Marathas and in 1737, they took possession of Thane including all the forts in Salsette island and the forts of Parsica, Trangipara, Saibana, Ilha das Vaccas - (Island of Arnala), Manora, Sabajo, the hills of Santa Cruz and Santa Maria.

Answer: (b)

Dupleix was the first European to initiate the policy of taking part in the quarrels of Indian princes with a view to acquire territories.

Answer: (a)

Samachar Chandrika had conducted a bitter campaign against the abolition of the practice of Sati. In Calcutta, the gifted Bhabani Charan Banerji left Ram Mohan’s Bengali paper and conducted in opposition to him a rival journal the Sambad Chandrika.

Bhabani Charan (1814 – 1833) was a master of satire and between 1825 and 1831 castigated the men and women who were inclining to new ways of life and abandoning the traditional simple habits.