Sunday, January 16, 2011

  1. Who established their trade centres in India after the Portuguese and the Dutch?
  2. What was the difference between English East India company and French East India company?
  3. When were they both established?
  4. Where did the English establish their trade centres?
  5. Where did the French establish their centres?
  6. What are the three Carnatic wars?
  7. Who succeeded in establishing the supremacy?
  8. What were the causes of the first Carnatic war?
  9. When did it take place?
  10. What were the events those took place when Dupliex was the governor of Pondicherry?
  11. Who was Anwaruddin?
  12. What were the results of first Carnatic War?
  13. What is called the treaty of Aix-La- Chappelle and when did it come into existence?

  1. What led to the discovery of the new sea-route to India?
  2. Which country was the first to discover the new route to India?
  3. Who was the first European sailor to come to India?
  4. Who helped him in his venture?
  5. How was his voyage planned? and Did he succeed in his venture?
  6. What is the southern tip of Africa called?
  7. Where is Calicut? in India?
  8. Who landed there in A.D. 1498?
  9. Which Hindu prince welcomed Vasco-da-Gama and what did he offer him?
  10. Where did the Portuguese establish their trading centres?
  11. Who was appointed to oversee the traders activities?
  12. Who was the First Viceroy of India(from Portugal) and what did he do to maintain their supremacy?
  13. who were the competitors of the Portuguese traders?
  14. Who was appointed as Governor after Al meida? and when
  15. From when did Goa become the important trade centre in India?
  16. Who was Adil shah of Bijapur?
  17. What did he do with Malacca?
  18. Which strategic port he conquered and what did he do there?
  19. What were the aspects of the policy of Al buquerque?
  20. Give reasons for the growth of Portuguese power.
  21. which places were conquered by them after Albuquerque?
  22. which place became the political and commercial centre?
  23. What happened to the Bahmani kingdoms in the south?
  24. How did the Portuguese exploit the Indians?
  25. What were the reasons for the decline of their power?
  26. What did Spain do?
  27. What did the Portuguese do in the religious side?
  28. What created the bitterness in the minds of Indians?
  29. Who established their Empire which led to the failure of Portuguese power?
  30. Which traders came to India after the Portuguese?
  31. How were the Portuguese officers?
  32. Why did the Indians dislike the Portuguese?
  33. When did the Vijaya Nagar empire end? what was the result of this?
  34. Who inter married whom and what was the result?
  35. What kind of a country was Portugal?
  36. Which place did they conquer in South America?
  37. What was the out- come?
  38. What was the bullionist policy?
  39. Waht happened by the 16th Century to Portuguese in India?
  40. Who was the famous historian?

Saturday, January 15, 2011

  1. Answer the following:
  2. The King who financed the explorers of Portugal.................
  3. The sailor (Portuguese) who reached the southern tip of Africa...............
  4. who was Vasco-da Gama? what did he do?
  5. This Indian King gave permission to land in India to Portuguese................
  6. Portuguese established factories in these places in India.......................
  7. These people came from Holland..........................
  8. When was the Dutch company established?...........
  9. Dutch settlements in India.............
  10. Dutch concentrated their trade in India in these places...............
  11. Dutch did not pay much attention on India.Why?
  12. Who was the King who helped to form French East India company?
  13. Who was Colbert?
  14. when was the French East India company established? .......
  15. French got Pondicherry from...............
  16. French settlement near Bengal...............
  17. First French Governor of Pondicherry..............

  1. Who were the first Europeans to trade with India?
  2. Who welcomed Vasco-da-Gama at calicut?
  3. Who defeated the Spanish Armada?
  4. With whom did the Portuguese deal or trade mainly?
  5. Who was the representative of King James I of England sent to India?
  6. When did the Great rising take place?
  7. Who captured Constantinople in A.D.1453?
  8. Who discovered the sea-route to India?
  9. Who was the First Portuguese Viceroy?
  10. Where did the Dutch company murder the English traders?
  11. Who was the English ambassador who visited Emperor Jehangir?
  12. when was French East India company Established?
  13. Who was called the navigator?
  14. Who was Louis XIV?
  15. Name a Dutch settlement in India?
  16. Who was Vasco-da Gama?
  17. Name the country of King James I?
  18. Name one of the Dutch settlement in India?

The Indus river valley civilization...

Harappa, The lost world

INDIAN HISTORY : PART II

INDIA HISTORY : PART I

  1. Etablishment of Portuguese,Dutch,English and French colonies in India.
  2. Portuguese power- growth and decline
  3. British power.= carnatic and Bengal
  4. East Indian Rule. 1773-1857
  5. Lord Cornwallis and Lord Wellesley,
  6. Marquess of HASTINGS,1813-23
  7. Lord William Bentinck-1828-35
  8. Lord Dalhousie 1848-56
  9. The Great Revolt. 1857
  10. India under the crown.
  11. Freedom movement
  12. Civics
  13. National Goals
  14. Social problems
  15. National Integration
  16. U.N.O. and the world
  17. India's Foreign policy.