BLUE BELLS MODEL SCHOOL

SESSION: 2024-25
CLASS: VIII
ASSIGNMENT I
SUBJECT: SOCIAL SCIENCE
CHAPTER THE BRITISH FROM TRADERS TO RULERS
QI. Multiple Choice Questions:

1. The foreign power which had already established contacts with the Western part of India by the
time British ships sailed and crossed Indian Ocean?
(a) Portuguese (b) Dutch
(c) Chinese (d) French
2. Which of the following was NOT the Presidency?
(a) Bengal (b) Madras
(c) Bombay (d) Kolkata
3. Who discovered the sea route to India in 1498?

(a)Columbus (b) Dutch

(c) East India Company (d) Vasco-da-Gama

4. Haidar Ali was the ruler of

(a)Bengal (b) Delhi
(c) Bombay (d) Mysore
5. European trading companies were attracted to India due to
(a) cheap land (b) cheap labour
(b) raw material like cotton silk and spices (d) Industries
6. What do you call a business enterprise that makes profit primarily through trade, buying goods
cheap and selling them at higher process?
(a) Exchange (b) Non-commercial
(c) Mercantile (d) Barter
8. Why is it considered that Delhi could no longer function as an effective centre after the death of
Aurangzeb?
(a) Many regional powerful kingdoms emerged in various parts asserting their authority
(b) Delhi was not considered to be symbolically lucky for the rulers.
(c) Delhi only represented the Northern part of India, and the Southern Part was left out
without any representation
(d) The trading activities could not function from Delhi
9. Three presidencies were established by the British with a Governor General for each.
Choose the three presidencies from the given list of options?
(a) Madras, Calcutta, Delhi (b) Madras, Bombay and Calcutta

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 (c) Madras, Pondicherry, Calcutta (d) Madras, Bombay and Delhi
10. According to the historians, by the second half of the 18th century, which new power emerged as
powerful in India?
(a) British (b) Chinese
(c) Japanese (d) Dutch
Q2. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words:
1. The British had to face the challenge of the rulers of and Mysore, after
the conquest of Bengal.
2. The new Nizam of Hyderabad, initially had cordial relations with the English.
3. Lord Wellesley made the Nizam of Hyderabad enter the system.
4. The English fought four wars with rulers of Mysore, known as wars.
5. It took the British 43 years to defeat the in three Anglo-Maratha wars.
QIII. Read the given source and answer the questions given below:
SOURCE A
The Dual Government of Bengal was a double system of administration, which was introduced by Robert
Clive. The British East India Company obtained the actual power; whereas the responsibility and charge of
administration was entrusted to the Nawab of Bengal. Under this dual system of governance, the British
administration acquired both the functions of the Diwani or revenue and Nizamat or civil administration of
Bengal from 2 distinct sources, Diwani from the Mughal emperor and Nizamat from the Nawab of Bengal.
The British East India Company was authorized to accumulate revenues of the Bengal province as the
Diwan. Moreover with the right to appoint the Deputy Subahdar, the British obtained the designation to
control the police and judicial powers or the Nizamat. The Nawab or Subedar of Bengal, as Viceroy of the
Mughal Emperor, exercised two functions namely the Diwani and the Nizamat. The Diwani was concerned
with revenue and civil justice and the Nizamat with military power and criminal justice.
SOURCE B
The doctrine of lapse was an annexation policy applied by the British East India Company in India until 1859.
According to the doctrine, any Indian princely state under the suzerainty of the British East India Company
(the dominant imperial power in the subcontinent), as a vassal state under the British subsidiary system, it
would have its princely status abolished (and therefore be annexed into British India) if the ruler was either
"manifestly incompetent or died without a male heir".
1. Define dual system of government.

2. Fill it with appropriate word

The got the right to appoint the Deputy Subahdar in India.

3. State the any two changes that came under dual system of government.

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