Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists: List-I A) First Carnatic War B) Third Carnatic War C) Second Carnatic War D) First Mysore War List-II 1) Ended by Treaty of Paris 2) Britishers Lost 3) Inconclusive War 4) Ended by Treaty of AixLa Chapelle

The correct match is A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2, which is option C.

• First Carnatic War (1746-48) ended with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), a European settlement that returned Madras to the British. So A matches 4.
• Second Carnatic War (1749-54) was inconclusive. Dupleix's influence in Hyderabad and Arcot faded, and it ended with the Treaty of Pondicherry (1755). So C matches 3.
• Third Carnatic War (1758-63) was decided by Wandiwash (1760). The British won and the Treaty of Paris (1763) confirmed it. So B matches 1, and the British won, which rules out option 2 for B.
• First Anglo-Mysore War (1767-69) ended with the Treaty of Madras (1769), which largely restored the status quo ante and was a setback for the British, who had to accept Hyder Ali's terms. So D matches 2.

The core concept is how the Anglo-French struggle in the Carnatic moved from Dupleix's ambitions to British supremacy in the south, which feeds into the Mains theme of how the East India Company expanded through war and treaties.

Trap: Students often assume the Treaty of Paris belongs to the first war because it is the first treaty they remember, or they confuse the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle with the Treaty of Paris. Remember that Aix-la-Chapelle is the 1748 European treaty and Paris is 1763.