Treaty of Alinagar 1757 Tricky GK — Practice Set Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: 1757

The Treaty of Alinagar was signed on 9 February 1757, between the British East India Company and Siraj-ud-Daulah.

Correct Answer: 9 February 1757

The treaty was signed on 9 February 1757, a few months before the Battle of Plassey (23 June 1757).

Correct Answer: British East India Company and Siraj-ud-Daulah

The treaty was concluded between the British East India Company and Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal.

Correct Answer: Bengal

Siraj-ud-Daulah was the Nawab of Bengal (1756–1757).

Correct Answer: Calcutta

Robert Clive retook Calcutta in January 1757; the treaty of February 1757 confirmed the restored British position there.

Correct Answer: Robert Clive

Robert Clive led the British force that retook Calcutta and negotiated the treaty with Siraj-ud-Daulah.

Correct Answer: Nawab of Bengal

The treaty ended the first phase of hostilities between the British and the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daulah.

Correct Answer: Black Hole of Calcutta

The treaty followed the June 1756 Black Hole of Calcutta incident, in which British prisoners died after Siraj-ud-Daulah captured Calcutta.

Correct Answer: Britain

The British East India Company signed the treaty; the French company was not a party to it.

Correct Answer: Factory and fortification rights

The treaty restored the Company’s factories and its right to fortify its settlements at Calcutta, along with duty-free trading privileges.

Correct Answer: Fort William

The treaty allowed the British to refortify Calcutta, rebuilding Fort William, which Siraj-ud-Daulah had captured in 1756.

Correct Answer: Calcutta

The treaty confirmed the British position at Calcutta, the city at the centre of the dispute.

Correct Answer: 18th century

1757 falls in the 18th century.

Correct Answer: Battle of Plassey

The treaty of February 1757 was followed within months by the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757.

Correct Answer: Bengal

The treaty belongs to Bengal’s history: the Nawab of Bengal, Calcutta and the road to Plassey.

Correct Answer: Alamgir II

Alamgir II reigned as Mughal emperor from 1754 to 1759; by 1757 his authority over Bengal was nominal, real power lying with the Nawab.

Correct Answer: British East India Company

The treaty restored and extended the British East India Company’s position in Bengal.

Correct Answer: Eastern India

The treaty secured the Company’s interests in eastern India, centred on Calcutta and Bengal.

Correct Answer: Recapture of Calcutta campaign

Clive’s recapture of Calcutta in January 1757 forced Siraj-ud-Daulah to negotiate the February treaty.

Correct Answer: Siraj-ud-Daulah

Siraj-ud-Daulah confirmed the Company’s trading rights in the treaty, shortly before his defeat at Plassey.

Correct Answer: Hooghly River

The treaty’s restored trading privileges covered the Company’s river trade on the Hooghly, Calcutta’s river.

Correct Answer: Bengal

The treaty was a stepping stone to British dominance in Bengal, completed at Plassey in June 1757.

Correct Answer: Anglo-Bengal conflict

The treaty closed the 1756–1757 phase of the Anglo-Bengal conflict, though peace lasted only until Plassey.

Correct Answer: Calcutta

Calcutta was the Company’s eastern commercial hub, lost in 1756 and restored by the treaty.

Correct Answer: Alinagar (near Calcutta)

Alinagar was the name Siraj-ud-Daulah had given Calcutta after capturing it in 1756; the treaty takes its name from that place.

Correct Answer: Trade without interference

The treaty restored the Company’s right to trade in Bengal without interference from the Nawab’s officials.

Correct Answer: Battle of Plassey (1757)

The treaty was signed in February 1757, only months before the Battle of Plassey in June 1757.

Correct Answer: Early British expansion

The treaty belongs to the early phase of British expansion in India, before the Company became Bengal’s ruler.

Correct Answer: Loss of Calcutta (1756)

Siraj-ud-Daulah captured Calcutta in June 1756; the treaty restored the British position lost in that capture.

Correct Answer: History

The treaty is a standard topic in the history of British expansion in Bengal.