Name the person /place associated with the following
1. The Battle of Plassey was fought between ---
2. Permanent Settlement
3. Mahalwari System
4. Ryotwari System -
5. Tantia tope
6. Mangal Pandey
7. Bahadur Shah Zafar
8. Revolt of 1857 boke out -
9. Champaran Movement -
10. Bakht Khan -
11. Begum Hazrat Mahal -
12. Nij and Ryoti Cultivation
Answers
Explanation:
(1)
The Battle of Plassey was fought in north-eastern India on 23 June 1757. Troops of the British East India Company, led by Robert Clive, came up against the forces of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the last Nawab of Bengal, and his French allies.
(2)the Permanent Settlement was introduced in Bengal and Bihar in 1793 by Lord Cornwallis.
(3)
In 1822, Englishman Holt Mackenzie devised a new system known as the Mahalwari System in the North Western Provinces of the Bengal Presidency
(4)The system was devised by Capt. Alexander Read and Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Munro at the end of the 18th century and introduced by the latter when he was governor (1820–27) of Madras (now Chennai). The principle was the direct collection of the land revenue from each individual cultivator by government agents.
(5)Tantia Tope also spelled as Tatya Tope, was a general in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and one of its notable leaders. Despite lacking formal military training, Tantia Tope is widely considered as the best and most effective rebel general.
(6)Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. He was a sepoy in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry regiment of the British East India Company. In 1984, the Indian government issued a postage stamp to remember him.
(7)Bahadur Shah Zafar or Bahadur Shah II was the twentieth and last Mughal Emperor of India. He was also a famous Urdu Poet. He was the second son of and became the successor to his father, Akbar II, upon his death on 28 September 1837.
(8)The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major, but ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown
(9)The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in India and is considered a historically important rebellion in the Indian freedom struggle. It was a farmer's uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar in India, during the British colonial period
(10)General Bakht Khan was commander-in-chief of the Indian independent forces in the region of Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the East India Company.
(11)Begum Hazrat Mahal, also known as the Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah, and the regent of Awadh in 1857–1858. She is known for the leading role she had in the rebellion against the British East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
(12)In the Nij or 'own' system, the planter produced indigo on lands that he directly controlled. In the Ryoti cultivation, the ryots cultivated indigo on their own lands as part of a contract with the planters. ... Ryoti was the predominant form of indigo cultivation in Bengal. The ryots sowed indigo under a contract system.