WorksheetsRuling the countryside
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What does 'ryot' mean?
Zamindar
Peasant
Villager
Taluqdar
Which year was Permanent Settlement introduced?
1807
1706
1803
1793
Permanent Settlement was introduced by whom?
Lord Cornwallis
Holt Mackenzie
Thomas Munroe
Robert Clive
In which year the Mughal emperor appointed the East India Company as the Diwan of Bengal?
1807
1803
1789
1765
Who was the governor general during the introduction of Permanent Settlement?
Lord Dalhousie
Warren Hasting
Charles Cornwallis
Lord Ripon
Who produced and designed the floral cotton print during nineteenth century?
Charles Frederick
Thomas Wood
James William
William Morris
Among the following states,where the kalamkari print was created by weavers?
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Karnataka
Andhra Pradesh
What is Bigha?
Unit of temperature
Unit of capacity
Unit of measurement
None of the above
In which year Mahatma Gandhi visit Champaran and see the plight of the indigo cultivators?
1917
1920
1906
1915
Mahalwari settlement was introduced in _______ presidency
Bengal
Madras
Bombay
Delhi
Name the land revenue settlement that was introduced in southern India.
Permanent settlement
Munro system
Mahalwari settlement
Ryotwari settlement
What do you mean by the term 'Plantation'?
Rearing of animals
A large farm operated by a planter
A large kingdom
None of these
What do you mean by the term 'Slave'?
Paid worker
Person owned by someone else
Royal person
None of these
How did company purchase goods in India before 1865?
By exporting
By importing
By auction
None of these
Before the Diwani rights the EIC got their income from_________
Mughals
Britain
Before 1865, the Company had purchased goods in India by importing________&_______ from Britain.
Cotton & Indigo
Gold and silver
A terrible Famine in ______killed ten million people in Bengal.
1770
1772
The Munro System was prominent in which part of India?
Northern Part
Southern Part
This Revenue system was introduced by ______in the areas taken over by the company after defeating Tipu Sultan.
Ryotwari System
Mahalwari System
The international demand for Indigo was affected by the discovery of
Synthetic dyes
Woad
Blue colour
None of these
