1. Answer the following questions
a) Who discovered the sea route to India?
b) in which year the Battle of Plassey took place?
c) In which year the Permanent Settlement was introduced by the company?
d) The tribal chiefs got what titles in central India under the British land settlement?
e) What do you understand by Farman?
2. Fill in the blanks
a) The British conquest of Bengal began with the Battle of___
b) Dalhousie implemented The Doctrine of___
e) The Champaran Movement was against___
d) The international demand for Indigo was affected by the discovery of___
e) The British described the tribal people as___
3. Answer the following questions in brief
a) What attracted European Trading Companies to India?
b) Describe the main features of the Permanent Settlement?
c) Give two problems which arose with the new Manro System of fixing revenue?
d) How did the powers of tribal chiefs change under colonial rule?
4. State whether true or false.
a) The Mughal Empire became stronger in the eighteenth century
b) The English East India Company was the only European company that traded with India
c) Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the ruler of Punjab
d) The British did not introduce administrative changes in the territories they conquered
Answers
Answer:
1.a)Vasco da Gama
b)In 1757
c)In 1793
d)The tribal chiefs got land titles in central India under the British land settlements.
e)A royal order is called farman.
2.a) Plassey
b)Lapse
c)Indigo planters
d)woad
e)The British described the tribal people as wild and savage.
3.a)The fine quality of cotton,silk and species attracted European trading companies to India.
b)The main features of the Permanent Settlement system were: The amount of the revenue was fixed permanently, that is, it was not to be increased ever in future. Since the revenue demand of the state would not be increased, the zamindar would benefit from increased production from the land.
c)Under the new Munro system of fixing revenue, the revenue officials fixed the revenue demand too high. This demand could not be met by the peasants. Consequently, the peasants fled the countryside and villages were deserted in many regions.
d)Under British rule, the functions and powers of the tribal chiefs changed considerably. They were allowed to keep their land titles over a cluster of villages and rent out lands, but they lost much of their administrative power and were forced to follow laws made by British officials in India.
4.a) False
b) True
c) True
d)False
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Answer:
1. a) portuguese
b)23 june 1757
c)1793
d)Land title
e)the mugal contitutional term farmer refers to an irrivocable royel decree issued by the emperor.
2.a) Battle of buxar
b) lapse
c) the indego planters
d) synthetic dyes
e)wilde and savage
3.a) fine qualities of silk and cotton in india has a big market in europe . spesies like paper,cloves,cardemom, and chinnamon too were in great demand these were the region that atracte european trading companies to india.
b) i) parliment collection was a revenue collection system introdused by lord cornwallis.
ii) by the term of settlement jamindar has to collect tex from peasent pay it to EIC.
iii) the revenue which is to be paid is fixed permanently that means revenue will not increased in feuture.
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4.a) false
b) false
c) true
d) false
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