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1. CLASS 8
ASSIGNMENT Ch-2:
From Trade To Territory
Very Short answer type questions:
Que 1=Name the last powerful Mughal ruler of Indian
Ans= Aurangzeb
Que 2=Who granted charter to East India company?
Ans= Queen Elizabeth I (England)
Que 3=Define the following terms:
A) Mercantle: A business enterprise that makes profit
primarily through trade, buying goods cheap and selling at
higher prices.
B) Farman: A royal order
C) Impeachment: A trail by the house of lords in England for
charges of misconduct brought against a person in the house
of commons.
D) Mufti: A juriest of the muslim community responsible for
exponding the law that the qazi would administer.
E) Dharmashastra: Sanskrit texts prescribing social rulers
and codes of behaviour, composed from c.500 BCE onwards.
Que 4=Name the European companies who arrived India
before EIC?
Ans=

2. -Portuguese
-the Dutch
-French traders
-britishers
Que 5=In which commodities trade was conducted by EIC?
Ans=In Indigo and textiles commodities trade was
conducted by EIC.
Que 6=Who were known as ‘factors’?
Ans=A factor is a type of trader who receives and sells goods
on commission.
Que 7=How plassey got its name?
Ans=The battle of plassey happened in a place called palashi
which got its name from a palash tree which grows
here.This word changed into plassey.
Que 8=Why did Robert Clive Commit suicide?
Ans=Robert Clive commit suivide because he was deeply
depressed and the immediate reaction was excruciating
pain resulting from illness which Clive attempted to alleviate
with opium.
Que 9=Name the powerful rulers of Mysore.

3. Ans=Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan.
Que 10=Which dynasty together held in a confederacy
under a peshwa?
Ans=Maratha Dynasty
Que 11=Who pursued an aggressive policy of territorial
expansion?
Ans=From the early 19th century the company pursued an
aggressive policy under a territorial expansion.
Que 12=Under which act supreme court was established?
Ans=Under Regulating Act (1773)
Que 13=Which new steam technology arrived in early
19thC. India?
Ans=The Cornish engine was developed in the 1810s.
Que 14=Who accused Warren Hatings for the
misgovernment of bengal?
Ans=Philip Francis
Que 15=Write a short note on the battle of Seringapatam.
Ans=The battle consisted of a series of encounters around
Seringapatam in the months of April and May 1799,
between the combined forces of the British East India

4. Company and their allies, numbering over 50,000 soldiers in
all, and the soldiers of the Kingdom of Mysore, ruled by Tipu
Sultan.
Que 16= ‘The Final wave of annexation was under lord
dalhousie’ Explain.
Ans=The final wave of annexations occurred under Lord
Dalhousie who was the Governor-General from 1848 to
1856. He devised a policy that came to be known as the
Doctrine of Lapse. The doctrine declared that if an Indian
ruler died without a male heir his kingdom would “lapse”,
that is, become part of Company territory.
Que 17=How did the country controlled over the territories
south of the Vidhyas?
Ans=There was no decisive victory after the war, so the
company now had complete control over the territories
south of the Vidhyas.