THE COLONIAL ERA IN INDIA

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  1. 2. The Nawab of Bengal defeated at Plassey in 1757.
  2. 4. Mir Jafar’s betrayal made him a synonym for this word in India.
  3. 8. European explorer who reached Calicut in 1498.
  4. 11. Policy used by the British to pit Indian rulers against each other — “divide and ____.”
  5. 13. The East India Company built trading posts at ______ Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta.
  6. 14. Governor-General who described village communities as “little republics.”
  7. 15. In 1510, the Portuguese captured this port city, which became their capital in India.
Down
  1. 1. British infrastructure built mainly to transport raw materials: the _______
  2. 3. This French settlement in India became their main colony.
  3. 5. In 1834, Governor-General Bentinck said “the bones of the cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of ____.”
  4. 6. The Portuguese introduced a system of passes called ______ for ships sailing in the Arabian Sea.
  5. 7. Famines were aggravated by the British free-_____ economic policy.
  6. 9. The policy of annexation adopted by Britishers to annex princely states:
  7. 10. _________ granted the East India Company its royal charter.
  8. 12. In 1757, the battle of ___________ gave the British control over Bengal.
  9. 13. The Indian infantry soldiers trained by Europeans were known as ______.
  10. 14. Battle in 1741 where King Marthanda Varma defeated the Dutch.