Modern Indian History & Freedom Struggle Questions (MCQs)


Q.  Captain Best defeated Portuguese in which year?

a. 1601
b. 1605
c. 1612
d. 1615


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Captain Thomas Best defeated Portuguese in 1612. He impressed local governors of Jahangir and subsequently British got mugahal firman to establish factory in Surat.
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