Question

c. Give short answers for the following questions.
1. What was the situation in the villages before the advent of the British?
2. Why did the English East India Company need money? Why did the system of giving the revenue
collection rights to the highest bidder fail?
3. Why did the peasants borrow money from the moneylender?
4. Why did Britain need indigo? What caused Britain to encourage its cultivaton in India ?

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Answer 1

Answer:

(a) The villages became very poor and was suffering from famine

(b) British needed money to continue their trade

(c,)peasants were very poor and we're running out of money for which they went to moneylenders.

(d) British needed indigo for their trade