Class 8 History Chapter 3 Ruling The Countryside Quiz 5 (60 MCQs)

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1. How much proportion of Indigo was imported from India by Britain in 1810?
2. Under this revenue system fields had to be carefully and separately surveyed before the revenue assessment was made.
3. ) The Demand for indigo increased in late 18 century in Britain because of:
4. Blue rebellion took place in:
5. The Europeans want to ban import of indigo. Which was the plant that they thought had a competition with indigo?
6. Assumption of Diwani rights means
7. NAME THE PRINT CREATED BY THE WEAVERS OF ANDHRA PRADESH
8. "The permanent settlement, However created peace" True or False
9. In which system was village considered as a social institution & village Headman in charge of collecting revenue?
10. HOW DID THE COMPANY PURCHASE GOODS BEFORE 1865???
11. What happened to the indigo production after the Revolt of 1857?
12. Name the revenue collecting system introduced by Holt Mackenzie during 1822.
13. The revenue was to be revised periodically, not permanently fixed in .....
14. The system of revenue introduced in the British territories in the South was known as:
15. By the 13th Century Britain, ..... and ..... used Indigo produced in India to dye clothes.
16. Who introduced the Permanent settlement in India?
17. Under the Mahalwari system, the estimated revenue of each plot within a village was added up to calculate the revenue that each mahal had to pay. From the given list of options, which one is closest in meaning to the word mahal?
18. Who found the mahalwari system?
19. Which of the following statement not related to Mahalwari System.
20. Mahatma Gandhi ended the cultivation of indigo at Champaran.
21. 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
22. Holt Mackenzie devised the new system which came into effect in 1822, it was known as .....
23. Which year was Permanent Settlement introduced?
24. Who collected the rent from cultivators in the Ryotwari system?
25. Gandhiji visited Champaran because .....
26. Assertion (A)-The Indigo commission asked the ryots to fulfill their existing contracts, but could refuse to grow indigo in future.Reason (R)-The commission held the planters guilty and criticised them for their coercive methods they used with indigo cultivators.
27. Name the type of plantation in which the planters purchased the land or they leased it from the zamidars
28. What was a common problem with ALL the revenue systems?
29. From the given dates, on which date did the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, appoint the East India Company as the Diwan of Bengal?
30. The Company was appointed as the Diwan of Bengal in .....
31. What do you mean by nij and ryoti?
32. Among the following states, where the kalamkari print was created by weavers?
33. In the Mahalwari system, tax was paid by the
34. Q5) How many percent did ryots cultivated the land under nij cultivation?
35. Why did many British officials quit their jobs to become indigo planters?
36. In which of the following system was revenue revised periodically & was directly collected from cultivators?
37. Where did the French began cultivating indigo?
38. ) Which were the two main systems of cultivation?
39. Indigo cultivation on a large scale required too many ploughs.
40. Who found the Munro system?
41. 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.
42. Growers of woad in Europe saw ..... as a crop which would provide competition to their earnings.
43. Assertion (A)-Under ryoti system, the planters forced the ryots to sign a contract or agreement known as satta.Reason (R)-Those who sign the contract got cash advances from the planters to grow rice at low rates of interest.
44. THE INTERNATIONAL DEMAND FOR INDIGO WAS AFFECTED BY THE .....
45. Q4) When did Mughal emperor appointed British as Diwan of Bengal
46. Which crop cultivation was more prominent in Assam during the Company rule
47. ..... devised the Munro system.
48. Who had developed the Munro System?
49. Who are called the ryots?
50. When did famine hit Bengal
51. NAME THE LAND REVENUE SETTLEMENT THAT WAS INTRODUCED IN SOUTH INDIA????
52. IN WHICH YEAR DID MAHATMA GANDHI VISIT THE CHAMPARAN AND SEE THE PLIGHT OF THE INDIGO CULTIVATORS???
53. Why was ryotwari system not used in the north west bengal or north india?
54. Indigo production was not profitable for
55. Lord Cornwallis introduced the ..... settlement in 1793.
56. In ..... , thousands of ryots in Bengal refused to grow indigo
57. What problem arose from the Permanent Settlement?
58. Which of the following are the drawbacks of Permanent settlement?
59. ..... is money that a government receives from people.
60. Other than India which country had potential of growing indigo