Life in Rural Area

One-third of the population was wiped out from Bengal beause

• a terrible famine occurred there

• a civil war broke out

• an epidemic broke out

• none of the above

The Mahalwari System was devised by

• Charles Cornwallis

• Robert Clive

• Holt Mackenzie

• James Mill

The ryots were

• cultivators

• zamindars

• traders

• money lenders

The Indigo Commission was set up to enquire into the system of indigo production. Whom did the commission hold guilty?

• The ryots

• The government

• The planters

• Both ryots and government

After the indigo production collapsed in Bengal, the planters shifted their operation to

• Gujarat

• Bihar

• Orissa

• Rajasthan

When the British came to India___________were self-sufficient units.

• Cities

• Villages

• towns

• districts

_______was the main source of income for the British

• Land Revenue

• Mining

• Horticulture

• Dairy farming

This system of revenue collection was introduced by Lord Cornwallis

• Mahalwari system

• Dahsala

• Zamindari System

• Ryotwari System

This was another crop which the peasants had to sow along with indigo

• cotton

• jute

• rice

• None of the above

Land, under British rule, became a ________commodity.

• saleable

• cheap

• reusable

• useless