correct answer. i. Albuquerque was the real founder of the Portuguese Empire in India. ii.
Albuquerque attempted to stop the practice of Sati. XI History - Lesson - - The Coming of the Europeans . “The British virtually became the rulers of Bengal” – When and How? .
Attempt an account of Dupleix's career and achievements in India. Activity . On the outline map of India, mark the European trading centres. .
Visit Fort St. George Museum and prepare a report about your visit. . Chennai Day and its associated activities.
Assignments . Prepare an album, collecting pictures related to the Portuguese and French settlements. . Write the biography of Robert Clive.
REFERENCE BOOKS . Sinnappa Arasaratnam, Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast, - , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, . . Om Prakash, The New Cambridge History of India European Commercial Enterprise in Precolonial India , Cambridge University Press, .
. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal, – , New Delhi, Oxford University Press, . . M.
Manickam, Trade and Commerce in Pondicherry (A.D. - ) , Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Pondicherry University, . .
Bipan Chandra, History of Modern India , Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, . . Danna Agmon, Traders, Missionaries and Tamil Intermediaries in the Eighteenth century French India . Ph.d thesis submitted in the department of Anthropology and History in the University of Michigan (US) .
. Write a note on craft manufacture. . What do you know of shroffs and hundis?
. Name the first Portuguese viceroy in India. Explain the policy that he introduced. .
What is meant by Cartaz system? . Name the Dutch colonial forts and possessions in India. .
What is a factory? List out the European factories established in the 16th Century. . What were the causes for the outbreak of the First Carnatic War.
. Name the treaty signed in . What were its terms? III.
Write short answers . The political condition in South India after . The traders were not a homogeneous group – explain. .