Crossword puzzle class VIII Social Science

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  1. 2. A tax on goods imported or exported.
  2. 4. This policy devised by Governor General Lord Dalhousie. Under this if any indian ruler died without a male heir his kingdom would become part of the company
  3. 6. Exclusive right to trade, granted to the Company by the English crown.
  4. 7. A Portuguese explorer who had discovered the sea route to India in 1498 via west coast of Africa , cape of good hope and crossed Indian Ocean
  5. 10. Company sent this official who led the army against Sirajuddaula at plassey in 1757 and defeated him.
  6. 11. A heavy gun used by infantry Soldiers
  7. 13. Tiger of Mysore and son of Haider Ali, who stopped the exporting and trading with British company and established a close ties with French company and modernised his army with their help.
  8. 15. Sanskrit texts prescribing social rules and codes of behaviour composed from 590 BCE onwards.
  9. 17. First English factory set up on the bank of this river in 1651
  10. 18. A network of trading posts set up by the British in India
  11. 19. A royal edict of a royal order
  12. 21. A ruler who is controlled by an another person
Down
  1. 1. Treaty signed by Indian ruler under which Indian rulers were not allowed to have their independent armed forces and protected by company but had to pay for the subsidiary forces.
  2. 3. This battle was fought between Mir Kasim and British East India Company
  3. 5. In this battle, Tipu sultan was killed by British Company and and Mysore was placed under wodeyars and subsidiary alliance
  4. 7. The title given to the British head of state in India
  5. 8. A bengali Nawab who asked company to stop meddling in political affairs of his dominion, stop fortification and attacked English Factory at Kassimbazar and marched to Culcutta to capture company's fort.
  6. 9. In 1600, This company acquired a charter from the ruler of England Queen Elizabeth I, granting sole right to trade with East.
  7. 12. A trial by the house of lords in England for charges of misconduct brought against a person in the House of commons
  8. 14. A policy claiming the British had supreme power in India which was initiated by lord Hastings
  9. 16. After the death of this Mughal Emperor in 1707, Many Mughal governors and big zamindars began asserting their authority and establishing regional kingdoms
  10. 20. A jurist of muslim community responsible for expounding the law that the qazi would administer