G8-HISDATES-L3 Ruling the Countryside

What year was the East India Company appointed as the Diwan of Bengal?

• 1765
• 1770
• 1788
• 1810

In what year did the terrible famine occur in Bengal that killed ten million people?

• 1765
• 1770
• 1789
• 1859

When was the Permanent Settlement introduced by the British?

• 1793
• 1822
• 1857
• 1810

What year did Holt Mackenzie devise the new revenue system in the North Western Provinces?

• 1822
• 1810
• 1859
• 1765

In what year did the Indigo Rebellion occur?

• 1857
• 1859
• 1865
• 1788

What year did the British begin to industrialize, increasing the demand for indigo?

• 1700
• 1750
• 1800

By what year did the proportion of indigo imported into Britain from India rise to 95%?

• 1810
• 1788
• 1822
• 1859

In what year did the British government set up the Indigo Commission to investigate the indigo production system?

• 1857
• 1859
• 1865
• 1822

What year marked the beginning of the British expansion of indigo cultivation in Bengal?

• 1788
• 1793
• 1810
• 1765

When did the British first start using indigo as a dye in Europe?

• 13th century
• 16th century
• 18th century
• 19th century