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