Mcq colonialism and countryside

Question 1

Raja was a term used to designate ___________

Answer 1

powerful zamindars

Question 2

Burdwan Auction

Answer 2

1797

Question 3

Permanent Settlement came into operation in ________

Answer 3

1793

Question 4

what were the problems faced by rural economy of Bengal in 1770s?

Answer 4

recurrent famines and declining agricultural output

Question 5

Commander of British Forces during the American War of Independence and the Governor General of Bengal in 1793

Answer 5

Charles Cornwallis

Question 6

Taluqdar literally means

Answer 6

one who holds taluq or connection ( taluq refers to a territorial unit)

Question 7

Villages within one zamindari former a __________

Answer 7

Revenue Estate

Question 8

officer of zamindar

Answer 8

Amlah

Question 9

which survey has a description of jotedars?

Answer 9

Francis Buchanan’s survey of Dinajpur district of North Bengal

Question 10

What was the role of jotedars?

Answer 10

They controlled local trade, money lending, exercising immense power

Question 11

Sharecroppers were aka?

Answer 11

Adhiyars or bargadars

Question 12

jotedars were aka?

Answer 12

Haoladars, gantidars or mandals

Question 13

Zamindars were responsible for

Answer 13

1. paying revenue to the company
2. distributing the revenue demand (jama) over villages

Question 14

Raja of Burdwan when Permanent Settlement was imposed

Answer 14

Tejchand

Question 15

who helped the British during Santhal rebellion and 1857 revolt?

Answer 15

Mehtab Chand

Question 16

when was fifth report submitted to British parliament

Answer 16

1813

Question 17

Which committee produced Fifth report?

Answer 17

Select Committee

Question 18

What is Fifth report?

Answer 18

it was the fifth of a series of reports on the administration and activities of EIC .

it ran into 1002 pages

Question 19

Which movie was shot on the decline of aristocratic zamindari style of living and where?

Answer 19

Jalshaghar by Satyajit Ray shot in Andul Raj Palace

Question 20

Who were Paharias?

Answer 20

they lived around Rajmahal hills and subsisted on forest produce and practised shifting agriculture

Question 21

Who was Francis Buchanan?

Answer 21

he was a physician who came to India and served in the Bengal Medical Service. He was surgeon to the Governor General Lord Wellesley

Question 22

what is aquatint?

Answer 22

it is a picture produced by cutting into a copper sheet with acid and then printing it

Question 23

who proposed a policy of pacification in 1780s?

Answer 23

Augustus Cleveland, the collector of Bhagalpur.

After the British embarked on a brutal policy of extermination he came up with this policy in which paharia chiefs were given annual allowance for proper conduct of their men

Question 24

what do Paharias and Santhals symbolise?

Answer 24

Paharia life was symbolised by hoe which they used for shifting cultivation.
Santhals or Settlers came to represent the power of the plough

Question 25

How did Santhals reach the Rajmahal hills?

Answer 25

The Santhals had begun to come into Bengal around the 1780s. Zamindars hired them to reclaim land and expand cultivation and British officials invited them to settle in the Jangal Mahals

Question 26

What's Damin i koh ?

Answer 26

it is a large area of land demarcated in 1832 to be the land of the Santhals

Question 27

From 40 Santhal villages in the area in 1838, as many as _______ villages had come up by 1851. Santhal population increased from 3000 to __________

Answer 27

1473 ; 82,000

Question 28

who were dikus?

Answer 28

moneylenders

Question 29

who was the leader of the Santhal Rebellion?

Answer 29

Sidhu Manjhi

Question 30

Santhal Revolt

Answer 30

1855-56

Question 31

What is Santhal Pargana?

Answer 31

It was created after Santhal Revolt carving out 5,500 square miles from the districts of Bhagalpur and Birbhum

Question 32

Peasants in various parts of India rose in revolt against

Answer 32

moneylenders and grain dealers

Question 33

Describe about Supa revolt

Answer 33

Supa was a market centre in Poona . on 12 may 1875 ryots burnt the bahi khatas looted grain shops and set fire to houses of Sahukars

Question 34

Person who acted both as a moneylender and a trader

Answer 34

Sahukar

Question 35

a celebrated figure in England

Answer 35

Economist David Ricardo

Question 36

Revenue Settlement introduced in Bombay Deccan

Answer 36

Ryotwari settlement where revenue was directly settled with ryot

Question 37

Rentier

Answer 37

people who live on rental income from property

Question 38

When was first revenue settlement in Bombay Deccan made?

Answer 38

1818

Question 39

before the 1860s 3/4th of cotton imports into Britain came from

Answer 39

America

Question 40

When was Cotton Supply Association founded

Answer 40

1857 in Britain

Question 41

When was Manchester Cotton Company found?

Answer 41

1859

Question 42

_________ was seen as a country that could supply cotton to ____________ if the American supply dried up

Answer 42

India , Lancashire

Question 43

Collection Centre for cotton from the Deccan before Railway Age

Answer 43

Mirzapur

Question 44

Limitation Law

Answer 44

Passed in 1859 , it stated that the loan bonds signed between moneylenders and ryots would have validity for only 3 yrs

Question 45

Deccan Riots Commission

Answer 45

Commission of enquiry set up by govt of Bombay to investigate into the causes of the riots

Question 46

When was Deccan Riots report presented to British Parliament?

Answer 46

1878

Question 47

Regulating Act was passed in

Answer 47

1773