Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :
List – I
A. Treaty of Allahabad
B. Treaty of Manglore
C. Treaty of Salbai
D. Treaty of Madras
List –

Question

Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :
List – I
A. Treaty of Allahabad
B. Treaty of Manglore
C. Treaty of Salbai
D. Treaty of Madras
List – II
1. 1782
2. 1784
3. 1769
4. 1765
Codes :

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Correct — C, A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3. A. The Treaty of Allahabad was signed in August 1765 (List-II item 4) by Robert Clive after the Battle of Buxar; Emperor Shah Alam II granted the East India Company the Diwani — the right to collect the revenues — of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. B. The Treaty of Mangalore was signed on 11 March 1784 (item 2) between Tipu Sultan and the Company and ended the Second Anglo-Mysore War on terms of mutual restitution of conquests and prisoners. C. The Treaty of Salbai was signed on 17 May 1782 (item 1) and ended the First Anglo-Maratha War, with Mahadji Scindia acting as mediator. D. The Treaty of Madras was signed on 4 April 1769 (item 3) and ended the First Anglo-Mysore War between Hyder Ali and the Company. Reading the pairs off — 1765, 1784, 1782, 1769 — gives A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) It dates Allahabad and Mangalore correctly but then swaps the last two: it makes Salbai a treaty of 1769 and Madras a treaty of 1782. In fact Salbai (with the Marathas) is 1782 and Madras (with Hyder Ali) is 1769 — this is the trap the question is built on.  (b) Wrong at every pair. It pushes the Treaty of Allahabad forward to 1784 and drags the Treaty of Mangalore back to 1765, which would put a treaty with Tipu Sultan before Tipu was even born as a ruler, and it also carries the Salbai-Madras swap.  (d) Salbai (1782) and Madras (1769) are right here, but Allahabad and Mangalore have been exchanged — Allahabad is given as 1784 and Mangalore as 1765. Allahabad belongs to the Bengal settlement of 1765, Mangalore to the Mysore settlement of 1784.

Concept: These four treaties mark the stages by which the East India Company turned from a trading body into a territorial power. Allahabad (1765) gave it the fiscal foundation — the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa — and inaugurated the dual government in Bengal. Madras (1769) and Mangalore (1784) close the first two Anglo-Mysore Wars, both on terms unfavourable or at best neutral to the Company; Mangalore is often noted as the last occasion on which an Indian power dictated terms to the English. Salbai (1782) closed the First Anglo-Maratha War and bought the Company roughly two decades of peace with the Marathas, which it used to concentrate on Mysore.

State PCS 2019 Q58 — History PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2019 Q58 — History PYQ with Answer