The Plassey Revolution

12 questions

1. The Compagnie des Indes was from which European country?
2. Rival networks of alliances were able to develop across India in the early eighteenth century because Mughal authority had...
3. In 1746, the French captured the important British trading post of...
4. Following the First Carnatic War, the East India Company and the Compagnie des Indes ___ the size of their armies in the Indian subcontinent.
5. Indian soldiers serving in __________ armies became known as sepoys.
6. During the conflict over who should be the new Nawab of Arcot...
7. Match the statements to the group in order to describe the opposing sides in the conflict over Calcutta.
8. At the Battle of Plassey the East India Company's forces were commanded by Robert...
9. At the Battle of ___ the East India Company defeated the forces of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Awadh and the Mughal emperor.
10. Historians have suggested that during the Plassey Revolution the Nawabs of Bengal became __________ rulers controlled by the EIC.
11. Which of these were agreed at the Treaty of Allahabad?
12. The Treaty of Allahabad actually placed Shah Alam under the protection of the East India Company, which included a ban on the emperor returning to ___ for several years.

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