WorksheetsRULING THE COUNTRYSIDE
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Cornwallis was the GovernorGeneral of ________when the Permanent Settlement was introduced.
Bengal
Bombay
Madras
By the late eighteenth century, the Company was trying its best to expand the cultivation of ____ and _____.
(a)
_______was a revenue estate which may be a village or a group of villages.
mahal
gram
taluqa
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
raja, gomasthas
ryots, village headmen
lathiyals,king
In ________, thousands of ryots in Bengal refused to grow indigo
March 1859
May 1858
March 1857
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.
Plantation
field
farm
__________, a famous poet and artist of nineteenth-century Britain.
Cornwallis
William Morris
Thomas Munro
Ryotwari system was introduced by ________ and __________.
Alexander Reed, Thomas Munro
Dalhousie, Cornwallis
Clive, Reed
The revenue was to be revised periodically, not permanently fixed in _________.
Mahalwari system
Permanent Settlement
Both
The planter provided the seed and the drill, while the cultivators prepared the soil, sowed the seed and looked after the crop in ___________system.
Nij
Ryoti
Both
