Question

Q. With reference to the causes of the Battle of Buxar, which of the following statements is/are incorrect?

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

• A.
  1 and 2 only
• B.
  2 and 3 only
• C.
  3 only
• D.
  1 and 3

Answer 1

The correct option is C

3 only
Explanation:

Statements 1 and 2 are correct: The Company’s servants illegally sold the dastaks or free passes to friendly Indian merchants who were thereby able to evade the internal customs duties. These abuses ruined the honest Indian traders through unfair competition and deprived the Nawab of a very important source of revenue. Mir Qasim realized that if these abuses continued he could never hope to make Bengal strong or free himself of Company control. He therefore took the drastic step of abolishing all duties on internal trade, thus giving his own subjects a concession that the English had seized by force. But the alien merchants were no longer willing to tolerate equality between themselves and Indians. They demanded the reimposition of duties on Indian traders. The truth of the matter was that there could not exist two masters in Bengal.

Statement 3 is incorrect: Nawab of Bengal Mis Qasim raised a modern and disciplined army along European lines. He did not take any help from French army. French were toothless tigers at that time.