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Question and Answers :-

1. When was Permanent settlement introduced in Bengal?

2. Who devised system of Mahalwari system?

3. Who fought for indigo planter's rights in India?

4. Why did the demand of indigo rise in Britain?

5. Name the two main system of growing indigo.

6. Name the four plantation crops introduced by British in India and places they were grown in.

7. Who was Holt Mackenzie? Who created Kalamkari & how was it done?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. in 1793 : Finally, after prolonged discussion and debate, the Permanent Settlement was introduced in Bengal and Bihar in 1793 by Lord Cornwallis.
2. The Mahalwari system was introduced by Holt Mackenzie in 1822. The other two systems were the Permanent Settlement in Bengal in 1793 and the Ryotwari system in 1820. It covered the states of Punjab, Awadh and Agra, parts of Orissa, and Madhya Pradesh.
3. Gandhiji
4. Gandhiji fought for indigo planters rights in India with a successful satyagraha campaign in Champaran in 1917
5. The demand for indigo increased in late -eighteenth-century Britain because of the expansion of cotton production as a result of industrialisation, which in turn created an enormous demand for cloth dyes.
6. There were two main systems of indigo cultivation – nij and ryoti.
7. In the century and a half that followed, the British persuaded or forced cultivators in various parts of India to produce other crops: jute in Bengal, tea in Assam, sugarcane in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), wheat in Punjab, cotton in Maharashtra and Punjab, rice in Madras.
8. In the North-Western provinces of the bengal presidency an Englishman called Holt Mackenzie devised a new system of land revenue in 1822CE that came to be known as the Mahalwari Settlement.

Answer 2

Answer:

1)1793

2)Holt Mackenzie

3) Gandhiji

4)The demand for indigo increased in late -eighteenth-century Britain because of the expansion of cotton production as a result of industrialisation, which in turn created an enormous demand for cloth dyes.

5)There were two main systems of indigo cultivation – nij and ryoti.

6)They also forced farmers to produce jute in Bengal, tea in Assam, sugarcane in Uttar Pradesh, wheat in Punjab, cotton in Maharashtra and Punjab, and rice in Madras.

7)In the North-Western provinces of the bengal presidency an Englishman called Holt Mackenzie devised a new system of land revenue in 1822CE that came to be known as the Mahalwari Settlement.