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1. 1.

   Fill in the blanks:

   1. The two kinds of source material for the Modern period are ___________ sources and ___________ sources.
   2. The Mughal rulers who ruled India after Aurangzeb's death are known as the ___________  Mughals.
   3. The ___________ were decisively defeated by Ahmad Shah Abdali in the Third Battle of Panipat.
   4. The English East India Company was established in the year ___________.
   5. The fortification of Calcutta by the English East India Company mounted to an attack on the Nawab's ___________.
2. 2.

   Choose the correct answer:

   1. The military campaign in the Deccan led by Shah Jahan/Aurangzeb/Akbar ruined the Mughal empire financialy.
   2. Shuja-ud-Daulah was the Nawab of Hyderabad/Avadh/Bengal.
   3. The invention of the printing press/telegraph/telephone helped to spread the ideas of the Renaissance thinkers far and wide.
   4. The Dual Government in Bengal was introduced by Robert Clive/Warren Hastings/Lord Cornwallis.
   5. After the Third Anglo-Maratha War the British placed a descendant of Shivaji on the throne of Nagpur/Satara/Jhansi.
3. 3.

    State whether the following are true or false:

   1. The French East India Company established its headquarters at Pondicherry.
   2. The Queen of England, Elizabeth I granted the English East India Company the exclusive right to trade with the East.
   3. The Battle of Plassey was fought in the year 1765.
   4. One of the regional centres of Maratha power was the Sindhias of Gwalior.
   5. Cornwallis annexed Jhansi on the grounds of Doctrine of Lapse.
4. 4.

   Name the first and the last emperors in the line of the Later Mughals.

5. 5.

   What is the significance of the Third Battle of Panipat?

6. 6.

   Name the British trading settlements in (i) Madras (ii) Calcutta.