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IV. Answer the following questions in brief.
2. Which aspects were central to colonial agrarian policies?
5. When and where did the Indigo Revolt start? Who started it?
1. Give a brief description of the system of land revenue followed during the reign of Sher Shah Suri.
3. Under the Permanent Settlement, how were the zamindars motivated to increase agricultural production)
4. Define commersialisation of agriculture. Under what conditions does it arise?
Answers
2.This policy encouraged the peasants to open new lands time and again. 4. As a ... But these elements were found absent in colonial agricultural.
5.The Indigo Rebellion (Neel Bidroho) took place in Bengal in 1859-60 and was a revolt by the farmers against British planters who had forced them to grow indigo under terms that were greatly unfavorable to the farmers. Indigo cultivation started in Bengal in 1777.
1.Shershah is known to have made a systematic survey and measurement of the entire cultivable land of his empire using a unit called Sikandari Gaj. ... {Sikandari Gaj was introduced by Sikandar Lodi and it was equivalent to 39 inches).
3.The Permanent Settlement, also known as the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, was an agreement between the East India Company and Bengali landlords to fix revenues to be raised from land that had far-reaching consequences for both agricultural methods and productivity in the entire British Empire
4.Commercialisation of agriculture is a phenomenon where agriculture is governed by commercial consideration i.e. certain specialised crops began to be grown not for consumption in village but for sale in national and even in international market.