Name:Zarif Hossain Roll:20 Section:8G Topic:4a

A.Question:
1. Prepare 15 short questions with answers from 1st two pages of topic 4(a).

Q.1 When was the British East India Company founded?

Ans: The British East Indian Company (EIC) was founded in December 1600.
Q.2 Who founded the British East India company?
Ans: It was founded by the governor and company of merchants of London trading as a
group of businessmen.
Q.3 How many shareholders did the company have?
Ans: The company initially had 125 shareholders.
Q.4 When was the dock at Surat established as a trade transit point?
Ans: It was established as a trade transit point in 1608.
Q.5 When did the EIC build its first factory and where?
Ans: The company built its first factory in 1610 in the town of Machilipatnam in the
Coromandel Coast in the Bay of Bengal.
Q.6 What happened in 1611?
Ans: In 1611, the EIC established a trading post in Canton (Guangzhou), China, to trade
tea in return for silver.
Q.7 What did the EIC ask the British government and why?
Ans: The EIC asked the British government to open diplomatic relations with the Mughal
Empire to have an ally against the dutch.
Q.8 Who did James I send to the court and why?
Ans: James I sent Sir Thomas Roe to the court to gain the rights for the British to
establish a factory at Surat.
Q.9 What happened in 1633?
Ans: In 1633, the East India Company set foot in Bengal by establishing a factory at
Hariharpur on the Mahanadi delta.
Q.10 What did Shah Suja do?
Ans: Shah Suja permitted the English to carry out trade in Bengal without any customs
duties for the sum of just Rs.3000.
Q.11 Who founded Calcutta and when?
Ans: Job Charnock founded Calcutta in 1690.
Q.12 What happened in 1696?
Ans: In 1696, the rebellion of Shobha Singh offered the company an opportunity
to obtain permission to fortify the Calcutta settlement and to arrange its own defence.
Q.13 What did the British acquire?
Ans: The British acquired the port of Bombay from Portugal.
Q.14 What did King Charles II do?
Ans: King Charles II granted the company rights to allow it to own territory, establish its
own coinage, build forts, establish an army and form alliances.
Q.15 What happened to the company by 1689?
Ans: By 1689, the company’s influence had so that it had three main bases, Bengal,
Madras and Bombay, which was called presidencies and a military force to protect
them,
Q.16 What was the company’s next step?
Ans: Their next step was to extend the company’s influence by purchasing the zamindari
of Calcutta, Sutanuti and Govindapur, to increase the company’s power.
Q.17 What happened in 1698?
Ans: In 1698, a rival company was formed, called the General Society Trading to the East
Indies.
Q.18 What was the new name of EIC?
Ans: The new name was The United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the
East Indies.