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Ruling the countryside

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does 'ryot' mean?

a)

Zamindar

b)

Peasant

c)

Villager

d)

Taluqdar

2.

Which year was Permanent Settlement introduced?

a)

1807

b)

1706

c)

1803

d)

1793

3.

Permanent Settlement was introduced by whom?

a)

Lord Cornwallis

b)

Holt Mackenzie

c)

Thomas Munroe

d)

Robert Clive

4.

In which year the Mughal emperor appointed the East India Company as the Diwan of Bengal?

a)

1807

b)

1803

c)

1789

d)

1765

5.

Who was the governor general during the introduction of Permanent Settlement?

a)

Lord Dalhousie

b)

Warren Hasting

c)

Charles Cornwallis

d)

Lord Ripon

6.

Who produced and designed the floral cotton print during nineteenth century?

a)

Charles Frederick

b)

Thomas Wood

c)

James William

d)

William Morris

7.

Among the following states,where the kalamkari print was created by weavers?

a)

Tamil Nadu

b)

Kerala

c)

Karnataka

d)

Andhra Pradesh

8.

What is Bigha?

a)

Unit of temperature

b)

Unit of capacity

c)

Unit of measurement

d)

None of the above

9.

In which year Mahatma Gandhi visit Champaran and see the plight of the indigo cultivators?

a)

1917

b)

1920

c)

1906

d)

1915

10.

Mahalwari settlement was introduced in _______ presidency

a)

Bengal

b)

Madras

c)

Bombay

d)

Delhi

11.

Name the land revenue settlement that was introduced in southern India.

a)

Permanent settlement

b)

Munro system

c)

Mahalwari settlement

d)

Ryotwari settlement

12.

What do you mean by the term 'Plantation'?

a)

Rearing of animals

b)

A large farm operated by a planter

c)

A large kingdom

d)

None of these

13.

What do you mean by the term 'Slave'?

a)

Paid worker

b)

Person owned by someone else

c)

Royal person

d)

None of these

14.

How did company purchase goods in India before 1865?

a)

By exporting

b)

By importing

c)

By auction

d)

None of these

15.

Before the Diwani rights the EIC got their income from_________

a)

Mughals

b)

Britain

16.

Before 1865, the Company had purchased goods in India by importing________&_______ from Britain.

a)

Cotton & Indigo

b)

Gold and silver

17.

A terrible Famine in ______killed ten million people in Bengal.

a)

1770

b)

1772

18.

The Munro System was prominent in which part of India?

a)

Northern Part

b)

Southern Part

19.

This Revenue system was introduced by ______in the areas taken over by the company after defeating Tipu Sultan.

a)

Ryotwari System

b)

Mahalwari System

20.

The international demand for Indigo was affected by the discovery of

a)

Synthetic dyes

b)

Woad

c)

Blue colour

d)

None of these