Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Medieval History

Consider the following features of an instrument granted to the English East India Company:

  • It was issued by the Sultan of Golconda in 1632.
  • The Company paid 500 pagodas annually.
  • It permitted free trade in the ports of Golconda.

Which one of the following was this instrument?

  1. Farrukhsiyar's farmans
  2. The Golden Farman
  3. Queen Elizabeth I's charter
  4. The Treaty of Ryswick
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