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Question	Answer	% Correct
Name the 3 Presidencies of the East India Company - the three trading bases	Bengal, Calcutta, Madras	92%
The decline of which Empire opened the door for British conquest of the subcontinent?	Mughal Empire	92%
Where was the governor of the East India Company based?	Fort William	83%
Which 3 regions were annexed into Company rule between 1823 and 1826?	Sind, Punjab, Bengal	83%
From what year did missionaries start arriving in India in high numbers?	1813	67%
What date was the first Charter Act?	1813	67%
What date was the second Charter Act?	1833	67%
How many private armies did the East India Company have?	3	67%
Who became governor of India in 1786? (Hint: Yorktown)	Cornwallis	67%
Which groups had clearly learned nothing from their role in causing tension in the sub continent?	Missionaries	67%
What kind of Christians thought it was their job to convert the Indians?	Missionaries	67%
When was Punjab brought under Company rule?	1849	58%
In what year did the Indian Rebellion end?	1858	58%
Name a religious group who sent missionaries to India. (1)	Baptists	58%
What 2 religions dominated the subcontinent?	Hindu and Islam	58%
Who was Governor after 1833?	William Bentinck	58%
How many British and Europeans were killed in the massacre at Cawnpore?	600	50%
Name a province annexed under Dalhousie, where he accused the ruler of maladministration.	Awadh	50%
Who died while “trying to do his duty”?	Henry Lawrence	50%
Name one of the existing divisions in India, which the British exploited, in order to stay in control of the sub continent? (1)	Religious	50%
What was the main role for the East India Company 1857?	Tax collection	50%
Who now controlled all of India, after the Government of India Act of 1858 removed the East India Trading Company from power?	The Crown	50%
Name an evangelical Christian against the burning of widows on their husband’s funeral pyres? (He also had a role in abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807)	William Wilberforce	50%
How many recorded occurrences of widow burning were there in a 30 mile radius of Calcutta, 1803?	438	42%
Which dominant Caste did they seek to undermine by doing this?	Brahmins	42%
Name one of the existing divisions in India, which the British exploited, in order to stay in control of the sub continent? (2)	Cultural	42%
Give one example of something introduced by Dalhousie as an attempt to modernise India. (1)	Electric telegraph	42%
Name a religious group who sent missionaries to India. (3)	Evangelicals	42%
Name one of the first missionaries in India. (1)	Joshua Marshall	42%
Give one example of something introduced by Dalhousie as an attempt to modernise India. (3)	Railways	42%
Which less controversial projects (less than attempting to change and Christianise the Indians) did the British turn to in the years after the Rebellion? (2)	Railways	42%
Name one of the first missionaries in India. (2)	William Carey	42%
When and with what act did the blanket ban on missionaries entering India end?	1813 Charter Act	33%
When was Sind brought under Company rule?	1843	33%
Name a religious group who sent missionaries to India. (2)	Anglicans	33%
Name one of the first missionaries in India. (3)	Charles Grant	33%
What two senses of superiority came about between the British and Indians?	Cultural and religious	33%
William Sleeman sought to wipe out the practice of ritualistic murder in the name of which warrior goddess?	Kali Ma, the Black Mother	33%
In which area did the Rebellion begin?	Meerut and Deli	33%
Name a religious group who sent missionaries to India. (4)	Quakers	33%
What was the East India Company by 1786, in relation to the crown?	Regularised subsidiary	33%
Between what years was Dalhousie governor of India?	1848-1856	25%
When was Bengal brought under Company rule? (Battle of Plassey)	1857	25%
How many European Soldiers were there in India in 1857?	45,522	25%
What was the role of the East India Company’s Private Army? (3)	Annex territory	25%
Name one of the existing divisions in India, which the British exploited, in order to stay in control of the sub continent? (3)	Geographical	25%
Which less controversial projects (less than attempting to change and Christianise the Indians) did the British turn to in the years after the Rebellion? (1)	Infrastructure	25%
What happened when the rebel leader (Nana Sahib) offered Europeans safe passage out of Cawnpore?	Massacred	25%
What became taboo after the arrival of British women in India?	Mixed race children	25%
Give one example of something introduced by Dalhousie as an attempt to modernise India. (2)	Post office	25%
Who became some of the most loyal allies of the British in India, staying this way until the end of the Raj in 1947?	The princely states	25%
How large were these forces by 1820?	232,224	17%
Name one of the punishments by the British of the Indian rebels. (1)	Blown apart by cannons	17%
What did Bentinck do in 1835?	Education Acts	17%
Which less controversial projects (less than attempting to change and Christianise the Indians) did the British turn to in the years after the Rebellion? (3)	Irrigation	17%
Give one reason why the Indian Rebellion was unsuccessful.(3)	No enthusiasm to return to Mughal rule	17%
What was the role of the East India Company’s Private Army? (1)	Protect the company	17%
What two religious/cultural practices were wiped out by the British?	Sati and Thuggee	17%
What is a Sepoy?	An Indian member of the Company Army	8%
What is meant by the term Caste?	A religious and social hierarchy	8%
What did the 2000 or so white men governing India (with a population of 200 to 300 million) as part of the new Raj do? (3)	Constantly suspicious	8%
Give one reason why the Indian Rebellion was unsuccessful.(1)	Divisions between the rebels	8%
Give one example of something introduced by Dalhousie as an attempt to modernise India. (4)	Educational reform	8%
Name one of the punishments by the British of the Indian rebels. (3)	Forced to eat meat to defile their religion	8%
Name one of the punishments by the British of the Indian rebels. (2)	Forced to lick blood from walls	8%
What was the role of the East India Company’s Private Army? (2)	Force rulers to sign treaties	8%
What was the trigger event of the Indian Rebellion, which began in 1857?	Gun cartridges sealed with beef and pork fat	8%
What is a Nabob?	Muslim official of the Mughal Empire	8%
Why was the practice of female infanticide common in Rajputana, Maharashtra and some other parts of Northern India? (2)	Shame of having an unmarried daughter	8%
How did the British justify their continued position in the sub continent?	"The white man's burden"	8%
What was the main aim of most missionary societies?	Translate the Bible into the vernacular language	8%
What did the 2000 or so white men governing India (with a population of 200 to 300 million) as part of the new Raj do? (2)	Attitudes to Indians darkened (racist)	0%
How did the arrival of British women in India constitute a culture clash?	Brought all the cultural taboos of Victorian England	0%
What assured the British that they could deal with any further uprisings more swiftly, or even prevent them from happening? (3)	Built better road networks between the presidencies	0%
How did Sleeman investigate Thuggee?	Captured and interrogated suspected Thugs	0%
What assured the British that they could deal with any further uprisings more swiftly, or even prevent them from happening? (2)	Changed ratio of Europeans and Indians from 9 to 1, up to 3 to 1	0%
Why did the missionaries focus on education and educational reform?	Create a new educated Christian caste	0%
How was the governor of the East India Company selected?	From the Board of the EITC, with crown approval	0%
What did Ram Mohan Roy attempt to do as part of the Bengal Renaissance?	Fuse the cultures of the West with Indian culture	0%
What did the 2000 or so white men governing India (with a population of 200 to 300 million) as part of the new Raj do? (1)	Governed from a distance	0%
Under what circumstances did the Doctrines of Lapse and Paramountcy allow the British to seize native land? (1)	If a ruler lapsed in administration	0%
Under what circumstances did the Doctrines of Lapse and Paramountcy allow the British to seize native land? (2)	If they died without a blood line heir	0%
Why was Lucknow able to hold out against attack, even after the relief force arrived, thus swelling the numbers present in the fortified city?	Lawrence’s second in command found a hidden cache of supplies	0%
What assured the British that they could deal with any further uprisings more swiftly, or even prevent them from happening? (1)	Mixed the army up so Sikhs and Muslims were mixed	0%
Give one reason why the Indian Rebellion was unsuccessful.(2)	Not coordinated	0%
What skills did they possess which helped with this?	Often skilled linguists	0%
Why was the practice of female infanticide common in Rajputana, Maharashtra and some other parts of Northern India? (1)	Parents could not afford dowries paid to grooms	0%
Give one reason why the Indian Rebellion was unsuccessful.(4)	Placeholder did not want to be there	0%
What were Indians promised as part of the new proclamation offered to them after the East India Company was removed from power?	Religious conversion would not be part of an official manifesto	0%
Under what circumstances did the Doctrines of Lapse and Paramountcy allow the British to seize native land? (3)	Where ownership could not be proven	0%