With whose permission did the English set up their first factory in Surat?
- (a)Akbar
- (b)Jahangir
- (c)Shahjahan
- (d)Aurangzeb
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Official answer(b) Jahangir
European Powers & Early Colonial Contacts
4 questions in Medieval History.
Asked in 2009, 2008, 2005, 1995
During the time of which Mughal Emperor did the English East India Company establish its first factory in India?
- (a)Akbar
- (b)Jahangir
- (c)Shahjahan
- (d)Aurangzeb
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Official answer(b) Jahangir
Which one of the following is the correct statement?
- (a)The modern Kochi was a Dutch colony till India’s independence.
- (b)The Dutch defeated the Portuguese and built Fort Williams in the modern Kochi.
- (c)The modern Kochi was first a Dutch colony before the Portuguese took over from them.
- (d)The modern Kochi never became a part of the British colony.
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Official answer(b) The Dutch defeated the Portuguese and built Fort Williams in the modern Kochi.
Hugly was used as a base for piracy in the Bay of Bengal by
- (a)the Portuguese
- (b)the French
- (c)the Danish
- (d)the British
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Official answer(a) the Portuguese