{"id":78831,"date":"2021-08-17T06:07:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=78831"},"modified":"2021-08-17T06:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:07:33","slug":"the-east-india-company-acquired-in-1668-the-island-of-bombay-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/the-east-india-company-acquired-in-1668-the-island-of-bombay-from\/","title":{"rendered":"The East India Company acquired in 1668 the Island of Bombay from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A. French<br \/>\nB. British<br \/>\n<strong>C.\u00a0Portugal<\/strong><br \/>\nD. None of these<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 21 September 1668, the Royal Charter of 27 March 1668, led to the transfer of Bombay from Charles II to the British East India Company for an annual rent of \u00a310. Thus, the island of Bombay was acquired by the East India Company from\u00a0<b>Portugal<\/b>\u00a0in 1668 and was immediately fortified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. French B. British C.\u00a0Portugal D. None of these Explanation: On 21 September 1668, the Royal Charter of 27 March 1668, led to the transfer of Bombay from Charles II to the British East India Company for an annual rent of \u00a310. Thus, the island of Bombay was acquired by the East India Company from\u00a0Portugal\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47],"tags":[26915],"class_list":{"0":"post-78831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-knowledge","8":"category-general-knowledge-mcqs","9":"tag-east-india-company"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}