Ruling The Countryside

Which date was the East India Company appointed as the Diwan of Bengal?

• 12 August 1770

• 12 August 1765

• 12 August 1885

• 12 August 1793

As Diwan, the Company became the _____ _________ _____________ of the territory under its control.

• Zamindar

• Rajas and Taluqdars

• Chief financial administrator

What did the East India company had to do/think of after being the Diwan of Bengal?

• Administering the land and organizing its revenue resources.

• Make choices which could yield enough revenue to meet the growing expenses of the company.

• Pacify the local power and Zamindars.

• Ensure that it could buy the products it needed and sell what it wanted.

Being an alien power, what did the company had to do?

• Pacify those who in the past had ruled the countryside, and enjoyed authority and prestige.

• Those who had local power had to be controlled but they could not be entirely eliminated.

• It didn't ask for revenue.

The Company had become the Diwan, but it still saw itself as a ______.

(The answer should be one-word, use capital letters for the whole answer)

What was Companies effort in?

• Increase the revenue as much as it could.

• Importing gold and silver from Britain.

• Buy fine cotton and silk cloth as cheaply as possible.

• To set up a regular system of assessment and collection.

In ____ a terrible famine killed ___ _______ people in Bengal.

• 1865, one million

• 1765, ten million

• 1770, ten million

After the incident in 1770, ___-_____ of the population was wiped out.

• one-fourth

• two-third

• one-third

The Company introduced the _________ __________ in 1793.

• Munro System

• Permanent Settlement

• Mahal Wari Settlement

Who was the Governor General of India when the Permanent Settlement was introduced?

• Thomas Munro

• Charles Cornwallis

• Robert Clive