Holiday Homework

Class 6
Social Science
Session 2020- 2021

A. Write the meaning of the following words:

Words Meaning

1. subcontinent a large distinguishable part of a continent, such as North

America or the part of Asia containing India, Pakistan, and
Bangladesh.

2. tempted persuade to do something

3. expedition a journey overtaken by group of people

4. annexation invasion

5. ravage destroy

B. Answer the following in least possible words:

1. When was the British East India Company formed?

Ans:December 31, 1600 ,________________________________________________________

2. Who granted the charter of East India Company?

Ans:Queen Elizabeth I of England

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3. Who was the Mughal emperor while the charter of East India Company was granted?

Ans:emperor Shah Alam II

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4. When did European traders come to believe that the commissions they had to pay the Arabs
were too high?

Ans:by the 15th century

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5. Who defeated the Nawab of Bengal Siraj – ud- Doulah?

Ans : Robert Clive

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6. Who unwisely provoked a military confrontation with the British at Palashi in 1757?

Ans: Siraj Ud-Doulah ,nawab of Bengal

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7. When did the British East India Company get the title of “Diwan”?

Ans:After the battle of buxar in 1764 .

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8. What was the meaning of the title “Diwan”?

Ans:royal court', 'tribunal of justice', or 'treasury'

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9. What is the other name of the Great Famine?

Ans:chhiyattarer manwantar
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10. Who regulated the Permanent Settlement in 1793?

Ans: Lord Charles Cornwallis

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11. What is Cape of Good Hope?

Ans: the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa. This misconception was based on the
misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian
Oceans._______________________________________________________________________
__

12. What was the dual function of Zamindars?

Ans: the dual function of zamindars was of revenue collectors and local magistrates .
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C. Mention the “EVENT” of the following “PERIOD”.

Period Event

1600 Royal charter granted to East India

Company .

1650 established a factory on the Hooghly

river in Bengal

1690 Founded city of Kolkata

1757 The battle of Palashi

1764 The battle of buxar

1769-70 The great famine

1793 The permanent settlement

1800s-1857 Reforms by the British

 Kolkata university set up

1840s Evonomic decline in Eastern Bengal

D. ​Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:

1. Initially the Indian spice traders were mainly under control of the Arab merchants .
_________
2. A factory was established on the - _-Hooghly ______________river in ​Bengal​ in
1650.
3. The initial aim of the British East India Company was to seek trade under
__concessions _________________-obtained from local __\Mughal governors
.​___________​.
4. Robert Clive’s victory was consolidated in _1764_______________at the Battle of Buxar
on the Ganges.
5. By the _15th _____ century, European traders had come to believe that the commissions
they had to pay the Arabs were too high.
6. ‘Great Famine of 1176’ is remembered according to __the Bangla calendar Chhiyattarer
manwantar ___________
7. By _1815__________ the supremacy of the British East India Company was
unchallengeable.
8. The arrival of the Europeans in the last quarter of the _15th century __ marked a great
turning point in the history of the subcontinent.
9. During the reign of __ Akbar___East India Company operated in India under a charter
granted by Queen Elizabeth I.
10. By the 1850s British control and influence had extended into territories essentially the
same as those that became the independent states of​__.india and Pakistan in 1974
11. Beginning ​in 1773______,​ the British Parliament sought to regulate the East India
Company’s administration.
12. ___Revenue collection and landownership ​_______​stands as a monument to the
disastrous effects of the good intentions of Parliament.
13. The Zamandari​_____​ gentry benefited enormously from the colonial state’s patronage.
14. European and South Asian capital was invested in the large-scale production of
opium,indigo,tea,silk,jute.​__________________________.