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WBCS Main Examination 2022 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 65 of 200

Q65
History of IndiaAdvent of Europeans & British Expansion
The Battle of Buxar took place in the year
  1. a.1765
  2. b.1764
  3. c.1795
  4. d.1800

Answer: (B) 1764

The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22 October 1764, when Hector Munro defeated the combined forces of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daulah of Awadh and the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II. 1765 is the year of the Treaty of Allahabad, by which the Company gained the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. In 1795 the Marathas defeated the Nizam at the Battle of Kharda. In 1800 Lord Wellesley founded Fort William College in Calcutta.

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