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BJ World Studies c12
Bob Jones World Studies Chapter 12- Raj India
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I in 1600 whose main purpose was trade | East India Company |
| cities in which the East India had centers within a hundred years | Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta |
| the battle in which the British defeated a leading Indian prince | Battle of Plassey |
| British commander who routed a disorganized Indian force of eighty thousand | Robert Clive |
| a prison cell at a fortress in Calcutta where British prisoners were placed and few survived | "the Black Hole" |
| act that gave the British crown control over all that the East India Company possessed | Charter Act |
| another name for Indian soldiers | sepoys |
| a battle that was the result of the Indians' fear and discontentment about the changes the British were making in traditional Indian life | Sepoy Mutiny |
| an act requiring troops to serve anywhere the British deemed necessary | General Enlistment Act |
| the term for a ruler over India appointed by Queen Victoria | viceroy |
| official British rule | British Raj |
| Sanskrit word meaning "ruler" | raj |
| the title for Queen Victoria | Empress of India |
| countries included in South Asia | Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka |
| shifting, unpredictable winds responsible for bringing most of South India's rain during one season | monsoons |
| mountain ranges that run down the sides of the Indian peninsula | Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats |
| mountains that stretch across the far north of South India; prevented general invasion from the North | Himalaya Mountains |
| white officials who had Indians as servants; means "masters" in Hindi | sahibs |
| empire that covered one quarter of the globe in the nineteenth century | British Empire |
| drink that was an important part of English life | tea |
| Indian marketplace | bazaar |
| educated Indians | babus |
| ancient Indian language | Sanskrit |
| terrible practice of burning widows | suttee |
| British author who was born in India and set many of his stories in that area | Rudyard Kipling |
| missionary to India who labored with the people for forty years and translated the Scriptures into the Indian language | William Carey |
| missionary who worked with Carey and printed Indian Bibles | William Ward |
| Indian Christian who witnessed to other girls and women in India and rescued them from abuse | Pandita Ramabai |
| the first woman missionary to India; opened schools for Indian women and children | Hannah Marshman |
| title given to the nineteenth century because of the many missionaries and revivals | Great Century of Christian Missions |
| society that sent out Carey and his partners | Baptist Missionary Society |
| religions that the Indian people followed | Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam |
| river on which Calcutta is located | Ganges River |
| East India Company located on the Arabian Sea | Bombay |
| Indian river that flows into the Arabian Sea | Indus River |
| problems the British faced in ruling India | its size, languages, religions, and culture |
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