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Who commanded the French forces in the Battle of Wandiwash?
A. Dupleix
B. Count de Lally
C. Bussy
D. Dumas
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Count de Lally was the French commander who was defeated by Sir Eyre Coote.
12662
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was formed in:
A. 1600
B. 1602
C. 1616
D. 1664
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The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie - VOC) was founded in 1602.
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Which Mughal Emperor sacked the Portuguese settlement at Hooghly in 1632?
A. Akbar
B. Jahangir
C. Shah Jahan
D. Aurangzeb
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Shah Jahan ordered the attack on Hooghly to punish the Portuguese for their slave trading and piracy.
12664
The English East India Company was formed by a Royal Charter in:
A. 1599
B. 1600
C. 1602
D. 1608
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Queen Elizabeth I granted the Royal Charter to the 'Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies' on December 31, 1600.
12665
The headquarters of the Portuguese in India was shifted from Cochin to Goa in:
A. 1510
B. 1530
C. 1556
D. 1600
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Nino da Cunha shifted the capital of the Portuguese government in India from Cochin to Goa in 1530.
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Who was the first Englishman to arrive in India by land?
A. William Hawkins
B. John Mildenhall
C. Thomas Roe
D. Ralph Fitch
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John Mildenhall was the first Englishman to reach India by the overland route in 1599.
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Which Portuguese Governor abolished Sati in Goa?
A. Almeida
B. Albuquerque
C. Nino da Cunha
D. Joao de Castro
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Alfonso de Albuquerque abolished the practice of Sati in the territories under Portuguese control (Goa).
12668
The 'Treaty of Paris' (1763) allowed the French to keep their factories in India but forbade them from:
A. Trading
B. Fortifying them
C. Keeping accounts
D. Converting locals
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After the Third Carnatic War, the Treaty of Paris returned French factories (like Pondicherry) but banned them from fortifying these settlements or keeping armies.
12669
Which European power was the first to establish a factory at Masulipatnam?
A. English
B. Dutch
C. French
D. Danes
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The Dutch established their first factory in Masulipatnam (Andhra Pradesh) in 1605.
12670
Who founded the city of Madras?
A. Job Charnock
B. Francis Day
C. Gerald Aungier
D. Robert Clive
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Francis Day obtained the lease of Madras from the Raja of Chandragiri in 1639 and built Fort St. George there.
