Colonial rule was first established in:

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NTPC CBT-I (Held On: 5 Jan 2021 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Bengal.

Key Points

The English East India Company (E.I.C.) built its raj in the countryside, applied its revenue policies, and saw how these policies affected diverse groups of people.
The Bengal was the first place where colonial rule was established.
The first attempts to reorder rural culture and establish a new regime of land rights and a new income system were made in the beginning.
During the Age of Discovery, the region of the Indian subcontinent that was under the jurisdiction of European colonial powers was known as Colonial India.
Conquest and trade, particularly in spices, were used to exert European authority.