The East India Company was appointed as the Diwan of Bengal in

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(a)

1760

(b)

1762

(c)

1764

(d)

1765

In which of the following states about ten million people were killed in the terrible femine of 1770?

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(a)

Bengal

(b)

Punjab

(c)

Bihar

(d)

Odisha

What do you mean by Mahal in British revenue records?

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(a)

Farmer and fields

(b)

A village or a group of villages

(c)

Seeds and crops

(d)

Local name of land revenue

Growers of woad in Europe saw ..................... as a crop which would provide competition to their earnings.

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(a)

indigo

The demand for indigo increased in late 18th century Britain because of ...............

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(a)

industrialisation

The international demand for indigo was affected by the discovery of .................

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(a)

synthetic dyes

Permanent Settlement recognised the rajas and taluqdars as zamindars.

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(a) True

(b) False

The conditions of under-tenants in Bengal was described by H.T. Colebrook in 1806.

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(a) True

(b) False

When and who appointed the Company as the Diwan of Bengal?

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(a)

On 12th August, 1765, the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II appointed the East India Company as the Diwan of Bengal.

What did the Permanent Settlement actually mean?

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(a)

By the terms of the Permanent Settlement, the amount of revenue the peasants were expected to pay was fixed permanently, it was not to be increased in future.

Why did cloth dyers prefer indigo to woad as dye?

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(a)

Cloth dyers preferred indigo as a dye, as it produced a rich blue colour, whereas the dye from woad was pale and dull.

Why do you think Colebrook is concerned with the conditions of the under-ryots in  Bengal? Read the preceding pages and suggest possible reasons.

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(a)

Give two problems which arose with the new Munro system of fixing revenue.

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(a)

Look into the history of either tea or coffee plantation in India. See how the life of workers in these plantations was similar to or different from that of workers in indigo plantations.

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(a)

(i) What is shown in the picture?
(ii) Where did French planters produce indigo?
(iii) What did the African slaves do when they rose in rebellion in 1791?
(iv) What is the other name of this rebellion?
(v) When did France abolish slavery? What was its consequences?

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(a)

Colebrook on Bengal ryots

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(a)