Month: January 2023

NCERT Class 8th History Notes Part 2:-
1. Murshid Quli Khan -> Alivardi Khan -> Sirajuddaulah – as the Nawab of Bengal
2. Battle of Plassey fought between nawab of Bengal Sirajuddaulah – Robert Clive
3. Who became the Nawab of Bengal after Sirajuddaulah defeat -Mir Jafar
4. Battle of Buxar (1764) – British East India Company led by Hector Munro and the combined armies of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula and Shah Alam II
5. Mughal emperor appointed the Company as the Diwan of of Bengal – In 1765
6. Tipu Sultan (ruled from 1782 to 1799) modernised his army with the help of – French
7. First Anglo-Mysore War – 1767-69
8. Second Anglo-Mysore War – 1780-84
9. Third Anglo-Mysore War – 1790-92
10. Fourth Anglo-Mysore War – 1799
11. Capital of Mysore Kingdom – Seringapatam
12. Third Battle of Panipat – 1761
13. First Anglo-Maratha War 1775–1782
14. Second Anglo-Maratha War – 1803–1805
15. Third Anglo-Maratha War – 1817–1819
16. Who started the policy of “paramountcy” – Lord Hastings
17. Who revolted against British in Kitoor (in Karnataka today) – Rani Channamma
18. Who started The Doctrine of Lapse – Lord Dalhousie who was the Governor-General from 1848 to 1856
19. Doctrine of Lapse – if an Indian ruler died without a male heir his kingdom would “lapse”.
20. Which kingdom was annexed first using The Doctrine of Lapse – Satara (1848).

Class 8th NCERT History One Liner Notes:-
1. Duke of Connaught – Prince Arthur
2. First Governor General – Warren Hastings in 1773
3. Last Viceroy – Lord Mountbatten
4. James Mill published which book – A History of British India
5. First Map of India – James Rennel, 1782 (asked by Robert Clive)
6. The subjugation of one country by another which leads to changes in political, economic, social and cultural views. This process is called as colonisation.
7. Aurangzeb died – 1707
8. Mughal emperor at the time of 1857 revolt – Bahadur Shah Zafar
9. Bahadur Shah Zafar and his sons arrested by – Captain Hodson
10. In 1600, the East India Company acquired a charter from the ruler of England.
11. Who give sole right to trade with the East to East India Company – Queen Elizabeth I
12. Who had discovered sea route to India – Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer in 1498
13. East India company primarily buys in its early days – cotton and silk produced, Pepper, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon
14. First English factory was set up in Bengal – the banks of river Hugli in 1651
15. Nawab of Bengal – Murshid Quli Khan