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RULING THE COUNTRYSIDE

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Cornwallis was the GovernorGeneral of ________when the Permanent Settlement was introduced.

a)

Bengal

b)

Bombay

c)

Madras

2.

By the late eighteenth century, the Company was trying its best to expand the cultivation of ____ and _____.

(a)  

3.

_______was a revenue estate which may be a village or a group of villages.

a)

mahal

b)

gram

c)

taluqa

4.

Under the ryoti system, the planters forced the ______ to sign a contract, an agreement (satta). At times they pressurised the ___________to sign the contract on behalf of the ryots to sign the contract on behalf of the ryots

a)

raja, gomasthas

b)

ryots, village headmen

c)

lathiyals,king

5.

In ________, thousands of ryots in Bengal refused to grow indigo

a)

March 1859

b)

May 1858

c)

March 1857

6.

A large farm operated by a planter employing various forms of forced labour. Plantations are associated with the production of coffee, sugarcane, tobacco, tea and cotton.

a)

Plantation

b)

field

c)

farm

7.

__________, a famous poet and artist of nineteenth-century Britain.

a)

Cornwallis

b)

William Morris

c)

Thomas Munro

8.

Ryotwari system was introduced by ________ and __________.

a)

Alexander Reed, Thomas Munro

b)

Dalhousie, Cornwallis

c)

Clive, Reed

9.

The revenue was to be revised periodically, not permanently fixed in _________.

a)

Mahalwari system

b)

Permanent Settlement

c)

Both

10.

The planter provided the seed and the drill, while the cultivators prepared the soil, sowed the seed and looked after the crop in ___________system.

a)

Nij

b)

Ryoti

c)

Both