Ruling the countryside

The Champaran movement was against

• peasants

• East India Company

• the oppressive attitude of the planter

The Company was appointed as the Diwan of Bengal in

• 1763

• 1765

• 1764

One-third of the population was wiped out from Bengal because

• a terrible famine occurred there

• a civil war broke out

• an epidemic broke out

The mahalwari system was devised by .................

• Charles Cornwallis

• Robert Clive

• Holt Mackenzie

• James Mill

The ryots were .............

• cultivators

• zamindars

• traders

• money lenders

The Indigo Commission was set up to enquire into the system of indigo production. whom did the commission hold guilty?

• Ryots

• Planter

• Government

After the indigo production collapsed in Bengal, the planters shifted their operation to ................

• Gujarat

• Orissa

• Bihar