1. The English East India Company was formed in which year ?
A. 1599
B. 1600
C. 1678
D. 1617
ANSWER: B.1600
SOLUTION : The East India Company was incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600. It was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India.
2. The English EIC was given the Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in which year to trade in the East _________.
A. 1600
B. 1780
C. 1900
D. 1776
ANSWER: A.1600
SOLUTION:
The East India Company acquired a charter granting it the sole right to trade with the East in 1600 CE. This was granted to it by the ruler of England, Queen Elizabeth I.
3. Which Farman is called the Magna Carts of EIC?
A. Farman issued by Farukhsiyar
B. Farman by Billu
C. A & B
D. None of them
ANSWER : A. Farman issued by Farukhsiyar
SOLUTION:
Farman issued by Farukhsiyar
4. Which Englishman stayed in Jahangir’s Court from 1609 – 1611 ?
A. Captain Justin
B. Captain William Hawkins
C. Middleton
D. Captain Russel
ANSWER:B.Captain William Hawkins
SOLUTION:
– Sir William Hawkins was a diplomat of the English East India Company and he was also the commander of the ‘Hector’, the first ship of the East India Company that arrived India at Surat on the 24th of August in 1608. – From Surat, he proceeded to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir’s Court in Agra in the year 1609.
5. Which place in India Britisher First landed ?
A. Surat
B. Madras
C. Kolkata
D. Jodhpur
ANSWER: A.Surat
SOLUTION:
The British first landed on Indian territory in 1608 at Surat. The British East India Company was given a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, which granted the company a monopoly on trade with the East Indies.
6. Captain William Hawkins wanted whose permission to erect a factory at Surat ?
A. Jahangir
B. Akbar
C. Aibaq
D. None
ANSWER:A.Jahangir
SOLUTION:
Mughal emperor Jahangir granted a Farman to Captain William Hawkins permitting the English to erect a factory at Surat in 1613.
7. Who played important role to getting the imperial Farman to setup a factory at Surat ?
A. Sir Thomas Roe
B. Sir Justin
C. Sir Johan Sen
D. None
ANSWER: A.Sir Thomas Roe
SOLUTION :
A permanent factory of East India Company is established at Surat. 1615: Sir Thomas Roe, the ambassador of King James I, arrives at Jahangir’s court.
8. In which year EIC established it’s 1st factory in South (Musulipatnam)?
A. 1616
B. 1677
C. 1678
D. None
ANSWER: A.1616
SOLUTION:
1616: The Company establishes its first factory in the south in Masulipatnam.
9. Which Britisher succeeded to get jahangir’s permission to errect a factory at Surat in 1611?
A. Ft Louis Tordue
B. Nelis Masi
C. Captain Middleton
D. None
ANSWER: C.Captain Middleton
SOLUTION:
1609: William Hawkins arrives at Jahangir’s court. 1611: Captain Middleton obtains the permission of the Mughal governor of Surat to trade there.
10. The EIC got the lease of Madras in which year ?
A. 1656
B. 1639
C. 1866
D. None
ANSWER: B.1639
SOLUTION:
In 1639, the English East India Company purchased the village of Madraspatnam and one year later it established the Agency of Fort St George, precursor of the Madras Presidency, although there had been Company factories at Machilipatnam and Armagon since the very early 1600s.