(d) 1765 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) TIME TO LEARN TASKS FOR SA 1. When was the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa granted to the East India Company? (a) 1757 (b) 1763 (c) 1764 2. Which land revenue settlement was introduced in Bengal and Bihar in 1793? (a) Permament Settlement (b) Mahalwari Settlement (c) Ryotwari Settlement (d) All of these 3. Which land revenue settlement was devised and recommended by Reed and Munro? (a) Permament Settlement (b) Mahalwari Settlement (c) Ryotwari Settlement (d) All of these 4. The nij and ryoti systems of cultivation were related to which crop? (b) Cotton (c) Sugarcane (d) Indigo 5. Who led the 'Blue Rebellion' in 1859? (d) British tea planters (a) Cotton cultivators (b) Fishing community Set Indigo cultivators (a) Tea
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1 ------ 1765
Their final humiliation came in 1765 when the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam granted the diwani of Bengal - the right to collect the land revenue - to the East India Company. From then on, the diwani became the main source of British revenue from India.
2--------(a)
The Permanent Settlement was introduced first in Bengal and Bihar and later in the south district of Madras and Varanasi. The system eventually spread all over northern India by a series of regulations dated 1 May 1793.
3---------(c)
The system they proposed, is known as the Ryotwari Settlement, under which the cultivator was to be recognized as the owner of his plot of land subject to the payment of land revenue.
4---------(d)
There were two main systems of indigo cultivation – nij and ryoti.