Ruling the Countryside: Deals with East India Company (EIC) taking over the Bengal administration and beginning of a new era.

This is an MCQ-based quiz on Ruling the Countryside.

This covers Munro System, Indigo, and Champaran Movement

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Growers of woad in Europe saw crop as competition to their earnings.

Tea Rubber Indigo Coffee

Who had developed the Munro system?

Capiain Alexander Holt Mackenzie Thomas Munro None of these

H.T. Colebrook describes the conditions of the under-tenant farmers in

1800 1805 1806 1810

The international demand of indigo was affected by the discovery of

Synthetic dyes Woad Blue colour None of these

The Champaran movement was against

Peasants East India Company The oppressive attitude of the planters None of the above

The Company was appointed as the Diwan of Bengal in

1762 1763 1764 1765

Gandhiji visited Champaran

To see the plight of Indigo planters in Champaran To see the progress of’Indigo plantation To see the managing system of company None of the above

Who devised the new-system of revenue called Mahalwari?

Queen Elizabeth Holt Mackenzie Queen Victoria Gandhiji

Indigo production came down in Bengal in

1850 1852 1855 1859

A large farm operated by a plantar employing various forms of forced labour is called:

Plantation Nij Bigha Ryoti

Which year is the mark of beginning of Champaran Movement by Mahatama Gandhi?

1756 1930 1911 1917

1770, famine killed:

10 million people 20 million 1/4th of population 1 Lac

Mahalwari systems was devised by:

Thomas Munro Holt Mackenzie Charles Cornwallis Robert Clive

In Which area Mahalwari system of land revenue collection was not introduced?

Punjab North West Provinces Awadh Delhi region

In which year was the Permanent Settlement System started?

1900 1885 1890 1793

The lathi weilding strongmen maintained by planters are:

Ryots Peasant Lathiyals Vat-Beater

Who among the following introduced the Ryotwari Settlement system ?

Thomas Munro Holt Mackenzie Lord Dalhousie Lord Cornwallis

From among the regions mentioned below, which region introduced the Mahalwari Settlement System in 1822 ?

Bombay Madras Bihar Uttar Pradesh

How much proportion of Indigo was imported from India by Britain in 1810?

75% 95% 90% 85%

After harvest, the indigo plant was taken to the ______ in the indigo factory.

Dye

Vat

Farm

Machine

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Title: Ruling the Countryside: Deals with East India Company (EIC) taking over the Bengal administration and beginning of a new era.
Questions: 20
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