British Policies and their impact

India was majorly an ________ economy

• Industrial

• Agricultural

Agriculture and _____________ were the two main sources of livelihood of the people

• Farming

• Handicrafts

The East India company was granted the Diwani of Bengal , Bihar and. Orissa by the treaty of

• Allahabad

• Versailles

The main reason for famine of 1770 was the agricultural crisis i.e.

• Replacing the production of food crops with cash crops

• Peasants were forced to borrow money thus pushing them in deep debts and forced to sell their land

Pick the odd one out

• Cotton- Maharashtra

• Tea- Assam

• Rice- Punjab

• Jute- Bengal

Who introduced the following revenue systems?

1. Ijaradari system.

2.Mahalwari system

• W.Hastings- Thomas Munro

• W.Hastings- H. Mackenzie

• Cornwallis- W. Hastings

• Cornwallis- Thomas Munro

What system of revenue did he introduce?

When and where

• Permanent settlement 1793- Bengal

• Permanent settlement

  1773- Orissa

• Ijaradari System

  1773- Bengal

• Ijaradari system

  1793- Orissa

Features of Permanent settlement revenue system.

• Fixed revenue

• Cultivators became tenants

• Zamindars got hereditary rights

• All of the above

Features of Ryotwari system

( Pick the odd one out)

• Fixed revenue for 30 years

• No intermediary like zamindars

• Revenue collected directly from cultivators

• Concession given for failure of crops

Features of Mahalwari system

• Revenue collected from head of the village

• Revenue not fixed, revised periodically

• Head of the village kept the surplus

• Both 1 and 2