Worksheetsruling the countryside
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 21mins
Who introduced the Mahalwari settlement?
Holt Mackenzie
Robert Clive
Morris
Warren Hastings
Mahalwari settlement was introduced in _______ presidency
Bengal
Madras
Bombay
Delhi
Who hold the responsibility of paying the revenue in the Mahalwari settlement?
Village headmen
Villagers
Intermediaries
Landlords
Name the land revenue settlement that was introduced in southern India.
Permanent settlement
Munro system
Mahalwari settlement
Ryotwari settlement
Name the person who first introduced Ryotwari settlement.
Thomas Munro
Alexander Reed
Tipu Sultan
Clive
The Ryotwari system was extended to entire territory of Southern India by:
Thomas Munroe
Alexander Reed
Lord Cornwallis
Robert Clive
Who was Zamindars?
Landlords
Kings
Slave
None of these
How did company purchase goods in India before 1865?
By exporting
By importing
By auction
None of these
Among the following states,where the kalamkari print was created by weavers?
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Karnataka
Andhra Pradesh
In which year Mahatma Gandhi visit Champaran and see the plight of the indigo cultivators?
1917
1920
1906
1915
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
What do you understand by a mahal in the Mahalwari system?
Farmer and fields
A village or group of villages
seeds and crops
Local name for land revenue
Assumption of Diwani rights means
Company could now use vast revenue resources
Company became chief financial administrator
Company could fix the revenue
All the above
The crops were deliberately and forcefully grown in India as they were highly in demand in
Europe
America
What is Bigha?
Unit of temperature
Unit of capacity
Unit of measurement
None of the above
Who introduced the Mahalwari settlement?
Holt Mackenzie
Robert Clive
Morris
Warren Hastings
What was another name for the Ryotwari system?
Mahalwari system
Munro system
Permanent settlement
what was a common problem with ALL the revenue systems?
The revenue rate was too high
the zamindars did not pay on time
the farmers were forced to grow certain crops
Who collected the rent from cultivators in the Ryotwari system?
the Zamindar
The village headman
The farmer paid kit directly to the company
