initial modern india mcq set 1 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

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 main aim of the Deoband Movement was to oppose English education. The Deoband Movement was established in Saharnpur district in 1866 by Mohammad Qasim Nanotavi (1832 – 80) and Rashid Ahmed Gangohi (1828 – 1905) to train religious leaders for the Muslim community.

Answer: (d)

In 1757, Sirajuddaulah attacked the British factory at Kasimbazar. Sirajuddaulah asked the Company to stop meddling in the political affairs of his dominion, stop fortification, and pay the revenues.

After negotiations failed, the Nawab marched with 30,000 soldiers to the English factory at Kasimbazar, captured the Company officials, locked the warehouse, disarmed all Englishmen, and blockaded English ships.

Then he marched to Calcutta to establish control over the Company’s fort there.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (a)

Lord Ellenborough had abolished slavery in India. The Indian Slavery Act, 1843, also Act V of 1843, was an act passed in British India under East India Company rule, which outlawed many economic transactions associated with slavery.

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.