Answer the following:-
1. Describe features of Permanent settlement .
2. What were the problems created by permanent settlement ?
3. What was the reason for demand of Indian Indigo ?
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SST Class 8 chapter- 3 Rulling the country side.
Answers
Answer:
1) Features of Permanent Settlement:
Landlords or Zamindars were recognised as the owners of the land.
They were given hereditary rights of succession of the lands under them.
The amount to be paid by the landlords was fixed.
It was agreed that this would not increase in future (permanent in nature).
2) The Problem of Permanent Settlement
The revenue that had been fixed was so high that the zamindars found it difficult to pay. Anyone who failed to pay the revenue lost his zamindari. Numerous zamindaris were sold off at auctions organised by the Company.
3)The demand for Indian indigo grew, as European cloth manufacturers wanted only Indian Indigo as it produced a rich blue colour. Due to this demand the price of Indian indigo rose in the European market and mediated the British to grow more indigo in the Indian soil.