EXERCISES
2. The East India Company wanted raw material for its factories in England and required a od
1. Choose the correct option:
1. One can imagine India's prosperity quite easily with the fact that it was known as
in the world.
(a) Golden
(
(d) All of these
(c) Copper
(b) Silver
money for its expanding-
(a) Colonies
(b) Army
(d) All of these
(c) Officials
3. The Permanent Settlement in Bengal was an agreement between the East India Company and-
(a) Dutch
(b) Bengali landlords (c) Bihari landlords (d) All of these
4. The play 'Neel Darpan' was published in
(a) 1900
(b) 1860
(c) 1757
(d) None
5. The Ryotwari system is associated with:
(a) Thomas Munro (b) Cornwallis
(c) Ashley Eden
(d) Hastings
6. Ryotwari system was extended to
(a) Kolkata area (b) Mumbai area (c) Awadh area
(d) Karnataka and Mysuru
7. The Moplah peasants of Malabar (North Kerala) organized revolts from 1836 to 1854.
(a) 22
(b) 23
(c) 24
(d) 25
8. Indigo-cultivators revolted against the cruel policy of British-
(a) Indigo planters (b) Indigo farmers (c) Indigo agents
(d) All of these
II. True/False:
Warren Hastings introduced the ljardati system.
2. Lord Dalhousie introduced the Permanent Settlement.
3. Under the Mahalwari system, the government could not increase land revenue periodically.
4. Indigo, tea, coffee are called food crops.
5. The indigo cultivators were forced to grow this crop.
III. Fill in the blanks:
1.
introduced the Ijaradari System in Bengal.
2. The Ryotwari System was introduced in Karnataka and Mysuru at the instance of
3.
made the settlement permanent by a regulation in 1773.
4. Dinbhandu Mitra described the plight of the indigo cultivators in him play
5. The Charter Act of
granted the ownership right to indigo planters in India.
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