Question and Answers :-
1. When was Permanent settlement introduced in Bengal?
2. Who devised system of Mahalwari system?
3. Who fought for indigo planter's rights in India?
4. Why did the demand of indigo rise in Britain?
5. Name the two main system of growing indigo.
6. Name the four plantation crops introduced by British in India and places they were grown in.
7. Who was Holt Mackenzie? Who created Kalamkari & how was it done?
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1)1793
2)Holt Mackenzie
3) Gandhiji
4)The demand for indigo increased in late -eighteenth-century Britain because of the expansion of cotton production as a result of industrialisation, which in turn created an enormous demand for cloth dyes.
5)There were two main systems of indigo cultivation – nij and ryoti.
6)They also forced farmers to produce jute in Bengal, tea in Assam, sugarcane in Uttar Pradesh, wheat in Punjab, cotton in Maharashtra and Punjab, and rice in Madras.
7)In the North-Western provinces of the bengal presidency an Englishman called Holt Mackenzie devised a new system of land revenue in 1822CE that came to be known as the Mahalwari Settlement.