Practicing Success
Which of the following is not a colonial port city that emerged as the new economic capital in the 18th century? |
Calcutta Dhaka Madras Bombay |
Dhaka |
From the mid-eighteenth century, there was a new phase of change. Commercial centres such as Surat, Masulipatnam and Dhaka, which had grown in the seventeenth century, declined when trade shifted to other places. As the British gradually acquired political control after the battle of Plassey in 1757, the trade of the English East India Company expanded, and colonial port cities such as Madras, Calcutta and Bombay rapidly emerged as the new economic capitals. |