MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS : (MCQ’s)
1. Within five years the value of goods brought by the company in Bengal ______.
2. About ___ of the population got wiped out in Bengal in 1770 due to famine .
3. The East India company introduced the permanent settlement in __________ .
4. Holt Mackenzie devised the new system in the year effect from __________ .
5. __________ introduced the “Mahalwari Settlement” in India .
6. Under the “Mahalwari settlement” the charge of collecting revenue was given to the village _________ .
7. The cultivators found the “permanent settlement” extremely oppressive in the _______ .
8. “The Ryotwari system” was devised in the British territories in the _______ .
9. Captain Alexander Read tried the Ryotwari system after the war with __________ .
10. Ryotwari system was gradually extended all over south India by _________ .
11. By the late eighteenth century the company was trying to expand the cultivation of_________ and _______ .
12. ______ indigo came to dominate the world market in eighteenth century .
13. Mahatma Gandhi visited Champaran for beginning movement against planters in _______ .
14. When did the ryots in Bengal refuse to grow indigo ?
15. When did the indigo production collapse in Bengal ?
16. The indigo crop grows primarily in the _________ .
17. European cloth manufacturers had to depend on______ to make violet and blue dyes .
18. Violet and blue dyes were made from the plant called __________ .
19. By the seventeenth century European cloth producers persuaded government to remove ban on import of _________ .
20. French began cultivating indigo in ___________ .
21. The Portuguese began cultivating indigo in ___________ .
22. The English began cultivating indigo in ___________ .
23. The Spanish began cultivating indigo in ____________ .
24. Who appointed the East India company as the Diwan of Bengal on 12th August 1756 ?
25. A unit of measurement of land was called as _____in the olden days
Answers:
1. (a) Doubled
2. (a) One-third
3. (c) 1793
4. (a) 1822
5. (a) Holt Mackenzie
6. (b) Headman
7. (c) Villages
8. (b) South
9. (b) Tipu Sultan
10. (a) Thomas Munro
11. (a) Opium and indigo
12. (a) Bengal
13. (b) 1917
14. (b) 1859
15. (c) After the Revolt of 1857
16. (a) Tropics
17. (a) Wood plant
18. (a) Indigo
19.(a) Indigo
20. (a) St. Domingue
21. (b) Brazil
22. (a) Jamaica
23. (c) Venezuela
24. (a) The Mughal emperor
25.(a) Bigha