Modern History Topic- Expansion of British power
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| 41. | Which Nawab of Bengal wrote to the Governor of the British Company: ‘Your gentlemen behave like this. They spread disturbances all over the country. Loot people and disrespect my officers and physically torture them? |
A. Alivardi Khan | |
B. Sirajuddaula | |
C. Mir Jafar | |
D. Mir Kasim |
| 42. | Which Nawab of Bengal took an extraordinary step by abolishing all commercial taxes and octroi for all traders for two years? |
A. Alivardi Khan | |
B. Sirajuddaula | |
C. Mir Jafar | |
D. Mir Kasim |
| 43. | Clive and Mughal Emperor Shah Alam With reference to the first Treaty of Allahabad (12 August 1765) between ‘Diwani’ permanently found 3. Which of the following statements is/are correct? |
A. only 1 | |
B. only 2 | |
C. 1 and 2 | |
D. 1, 2 and 3 |
| 44. | Between whom the Second Treaty of Allahabad (16 August 1765) took place? |
A. Shah Alam II and Clive | |
B. Shuja-ud-Daulah and Clive | |
C. Mir Kasim and Clive | |
D. None of these |
| 45. | Who was given the name of ‘Colonel Clive’s donkey or jackal’? |
A. Sirajuddaula | |
B. Mir Jafar | |
C. Mir Kasim | |
D. Najmuddaula |
| 46. | Which Nawab of Bengal was described by a judge of the Supreme Court of Calcutta as a ‘phantom’? |
A. Mir Jafar | |
B. Najmuddaula | |
C. Saifuddaulah | |
D. Mubarakuddaulah |
| 47. | Colonel Malson said: ‘The Company’s officers now have only one aim – to plunder as much as they can, and that ‘she’ is such a bag of gold that you can put your hands into whenever you like’ – in which ‘she’ is used Is? |
A. Sirajuddaula | |
B. Mir Jafar | |
C. Mir Kasim | |
D. Najmuddaula |
| 48. | Who established a modern arsenal at Dindigul with the help of French experts? |
A. Immadi Chikka Krishnaraja | |
B. Hyder Ali | |
C. Tipu Sultan | |
D. None of these |
| 49. | Who had declared that ‘it will first drive the British out of the court and finally out of India’? |
A. Chanda Sahib | |
B. Muhammad Ali | |
C. Hyder Ali | |
D. Tipu Sultan |
| 50. | Match List-I with List-II List-I A. First Anglo-Mysore War (1767-69) B. Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-84) C. Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790-92) List-II 1. Treaty of Madras 2. Treaty of Mangalore 3. Treaty of Srirangapatna |
A. A → 1, B → 2, C → 3 | |
B. A → 2, B → 1, C → 3 | |
C. A → 2, B → 3, C → 1 | |
D. A → 3, B → 1, C → 2 |
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