3. Who introduced the Ryotwari System?
4. Who was Ryot?
5.What was Mahalwari System?
6. What was 'mahal' in the Mahalwari System?
7.What was the commercialization of agriculture?
8.What was Indigo Revolt?
Answers
Answer:
1. Sir Thomas introduced the Ryotwari System.
2. Ryots were tenants and individual cultivators.
3. Under the mahalwari system, the land revenue was collected from the farmers by village headman on behalf of the whole village.
4. The basis of assement was the product of a Mahal or estate.
5. The commercialisation of Indian Agriculture was done primarily to feed the British industries that it was taken up and achieved only in cases of those agricultural products which were either needed by the British industries or could fetch cash commercial gain to British in the European or American market.
6. The indigo revolt was the peasant movement and subsequent uprising of indigo farmers against the indigo planters that arose in Chaugacha village of Nadia in Bengal in 1859.