COLONIOLISM AND THE COUNTRYSIDE ( MCQs, SHORT & LONG QUESTIONS AND MAP WORK) TERM-II 2022

 

COLONIOLISM AND THE COUNTRYSIDE

 ( MCQs ASSERTION REASON MCQs, CASE STUDY MCQs, SHORT AND LONG QUESTIONS AND MAP WORK) 

STAND ALONE MCQs (1 Mark each)

 Q. 1. Match the following:

List-I                                                      List-II

(i) Manucci                                          (a) Samarqand

(ii) Jean Baptist Tavernier                   (b) Italy

(iii) Duarte Barbosa                            (c) France

 (iv) Abdur Razzak                            (d) Portuguese

 Options:              (i)           (ii)          (iii)          (iv)

        (A)                (b)            (c)          (d)          (a)

        (B)                (a)          (d)         (c)          (b)

        (C)                (d)          (a)         (b)          (c)

        (D)                (c)          (b)         (a)          (d)

Ans. Option (A) is correct.

 Q. 2. Identify the economist whose ideas were operated by the British officials in Maharashtra in 1820’s.

 (A) David Ricardo                            (B) Thames Robert

(C) John Stuart Mil                           (D) Walter Bagehot

Ans. Option (A) is correct.

Q. 3. Consider the following statements regarding the establishment of British East India Company in Bengal:

 (i) The Permanent Settlement had come into operation in 1793.

(ii) In 1797 there was an auction in Burdwan, during which a number of mahals (estates) held by the Raja of Burdwan were being sold.

(iii) The estates of those who failed to pay were to be auctioned to recover the revenue.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

(A) Only i

 (B) i and ii

 (C) i and iii

 (D) i, ii and iii

Ans. Option (D) is correct.

Q. 4. Who was the commander of the British forces during the American War of Independence?

Name the Governor General of Bengal who introduced Permanent Settlement in 1793?

(a) John Simon                                  (b) Warren Hastings

 (c) Lord Irwin                                    (d) Charles Cornwallis

 Ans. Option (D) is correct.

Q. 5. When was Fifth Report introduced in the British Parliament?

 (A) 1770                                              (B) 1858

 (C) 1813                                               (D) 1795

Ans. Option (C) is correct.

Q. 6. Which of the statement(s) are correct about the duties of the Zamindars under permanent settlements

 (1) Zamindars had several (sometimes as many as 400) villages under them.

 (2) The Company fixed the total demand over the entire estate whose revenue the zamindar contracted to pay.

(3) The zamindar collected rent from the different villages, paid the revenue to the Company, and retained the difference as his income

 (4) He was expected to pay the Company regularly, failing which his estate could be auctioned. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

 (A) 1, 2, 4                            (B) 1, 3, 4                            (C) 3, 2, 4                          (D) All of the above.

 Ans. Option (D) is correct.

 Q. 7. In Permanent Settlement, sometimes zamindars failed to pay the revenue demand and unpaid balances accumulated.

Which of the statement(s) are correct regarding zamindars failed to pay the revenue demand?

 (1) The initial demands were very high. The Company pegged the revenue demand high, arguing that the burden on zamindars would gradually decline as agricultural production expanded and prices rose.

(2) High demand was imposed in the 1790s when the prices of agricultural produce were contented. (3) The zamindar collected rent from the different villages, paid the revenue to the Company, and retained the difference as his income.

 (4) He was expected to pay the Company regularly, failing which his estate could be auctioned. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

 (A) 1, 2, 4                            (B) 1, 3, 4                            (C) 3, 2, 4                          (D) All of the above.

 A Ans. Option (B) is correct.

Q. 8. Identify the following image.

 

 

 (A) Charles Cornwallis                                   (B) Waren Hesttings

 (C) Lord Dalhousie                                          (D) Lord Clive

 Ans. Option (A) is correct.

Q. 9. A physician who came to India and served in the Bengal Medical Service was-

 (A) Edward Balfour         (B) Francis Buchanan     (C) Mehtab Chand          (D) William Griffith

 Ans. Option (C) is correct.

Q. 10. Who were Talukdars under British Raj in India?

(A) The one who holds territorial units.                 

(B) Government Officials who were responsible for territorial units.

(C) Head of the pageants.

(D) Rich peasants.

Ans. Option (A) is correct

Q. 11. Who introduced Zamindari System?

 (A) Lord Clive    (B) Lord Wellesley          (C) Lord Cornwallis         (D) Lord William Bentinck

 Ans. Option (C) is correct.

Q. 12. Zamindars were responsible for

 (A) Indigo trades with British                                        (B) Excretion from minerals from hills

 (C) Maintaining records for lands and territories          (D) Paying revenue to the East India Company

Ans. Option (D) is correct.

Q. 13. Which of the following statement is incorrect related to Santhals?

(A) They had moved into this area around 1800, displaced the hill folk who lived on these lower slopes, cleared the forests, and settled the Rajmahal ranges.

 (B) By 1832 a large area of land was demarcated as Damin-i-Koh. This was declared to be the land of the Santhals.

(C) They cleaned the forest and plow the land.

 (D) They practiced shifting cultivation.

Ans. Option (D) is correct.

. Q. 14. Who among the following was the leader of the Santhal Rebellion?

 (A) Sidhu Manjhi             (B) Birsa Munda               (C) Kanu Manjhi              (D) Shibu Murmu

 Ans. Option (A) is correct.

Q. 15. Arrange the following events in chronological order:

 (1) Santhal Rebellion

 (2) American Civil war

(3) Permanent Settlement

(4) First revenue settlement in Bombay Deccan area.

 Choose the correct options:

 (A) 4, 3, 1, 2

 (B) 4, 1, 2, 3

 (C) 3, 4, 1, 2

 (D) 1, 2, 3, 4

 Ans. Option (C) is correct.

Q. 16. Sahukars are the people who refer as

 (A) A sahukar was someone who acted as both a moneylender and a trader.

 (B) Rich peasants.

(C) Maintaining records for lands and territories.

(d) Shifting cultivators.

Ans. Option (A) is correct

ASSERTION AND REASON BASED MCQs (1 Mark each)

 Directions : In the following questions, a statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as:

(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

 (B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.

(C) A is true but R is false.

 (D) A is false and R is true.

 Q. 1. Assertion (A): The East India Company realised that there was a need to fix the revenue amount for regular flow of income.

Reason (R): British officials felt that agriculture, trade and the revenue resources of the state could all be developed by encouraging investment in agriculture.

 Ans. Option (A) is correct

Q. 2. Assertion (A): In the early decades after the Permanent Settlement, zamindars regularly failed to pay the revenue demand and unpaid balances accumulated.

 Reason (R): The Company had recognised the zamindars as important, but it wanted to control and regulate them, subdue their authority and restrict their autonomy.

 Ans. Option (B) is correct.

Q. 3. Assertion (A): With their base in the hills, the Paharias regularly raided the plains where settled agriculturists lived.

 Reason (R): These raids were necessary for their survival, particularly in years of scarcity

 Ans. Option (A) is correct.

Q. 4. Assertion (A): The British encouraged forest clearance, and Zamindars and jotedars turned uncultivated lands into rice fields.

Reason (R): The British associated forests with wildness, and saw forest people as savage, unruly, primitive, and difficult to govern.

 Ans. Option (A) is correct.

Q. 5. Assertion (A) : Burdwan Raja’s estates had been publicly sold, but he remained in control of his zamindari.

Reason (R): East India Company allowed the Raja to maintain his zamindari under permanent Settlements.

 Ans. Option (C) is correct.

Q. 6. Assertion (A) : Within the villages, the power of jotedars was more effective than that of zamindars.

Reason (R) : Unlike zamindars who often lived in urban areas, jotedars were located in the villages and exercised direct control over a considerable section of poor villagers.

 Ans. Option (A) is correct.

Q. 7. Assertion (A) : The Paharias regularly raided the plains where settled agriculturists lived. Reason (R) : In the 1770s the British embarked on a brutal policy of extermination, hunting the Paharias down and killing them.

Ans. Option (B) is correct.

Q. 8. Assertion (A) : The British turned to the Santhals and they were given land and persuaded to settle in the foothills of Rajmahal.

 Reason (R) : Having failed to subdue the Paharis and transform them into settled agriculturists, the British turned to the Santhals.

Ans. Option (A) is correct.

CASE-BASED MCQs

 I. Study this extract of the Fifth report and answer the following questions:

Referring to the condition of Zamindars and land, the Fifth Report stated: The revenue was not realized with punctuality, and lands to a considerable extent were periodically exposed to sale by auction. In the native year 1203, corresponding with 1796-97, the land advertised for sale comprehended a Jumma or assessment of Sicca Rupees 28,70,061, the extent of land actually sold bore a Jumma or assessment of 14,18,756, and the amount of purchase money Sicca Rupees 17,90,416. In 1204, corresponding with 1797-98, the land advertised was for Sicca Rupees 26,66,191, the quantity sold was for Sicca Rupees 22,74,076, and the purchase money Sicca Rupees 21,47,580. Among the defaulters were some of the oldest families of the country. Such were the Rajahs of Nuddea, Rajeshaye, Bishenpore (all districts of Bengal), and others, the dismemberment of whose estates at the end of each succeeding year, threatened them with poverty and ruin, and ruin, and in some instances presented difficulties to the revenue officers, in their efforts to preserve undiminished the amount of public assessment.)

Q. 1. Choose the correct option:

Assertion (A): Among the defaulters were some of the oldest families of the country.

Reason (R): The revenue was not realized with punctuality, and lands to a considerable extent were periodically exposed to sale by auction.

(A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

 (B) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A.

(C) A is correct but R is wrong.

 (D) R is correct but A is wrong.

Ans. Option (B) is correct.

Q. 2. What are the officials who wrote the Fifth Report trying to show through these figures?

 (A) Maladministration, corruption and misrule by the East India Company Officials.

 (B) Drawback of the system of permanent settlement.

(C) Inefficiency in revenue collection.

(D) Only (B) and (C)

Ans. Option (A) is correct.

Q. 3. Long term generalisations from these figures of two years may lead to misinterpretation of the actual situation. How?

(A) As these were the years when Zamindars faced problems.

 (B) There could be exaggeration of facts.

 (C) Both (i) and (ii).

(D) None of the above.

 Ans. Option (C) is correct.

Q. 4. What do you think, according to this extract is the meaning of Jumma?

 (A) The amount collected as land revenue.

 (B) The amount collected from the auction of the land.

 (C) The officials assessment of land revenue.

(D) All of the above.

Ans. Option (C) is correct.

 II. Observe the picture carefully and answer the questions that follow.

 

 

Q. 1. Identify the British official shown in the picture.

(A) Lord William Bentinck                             (B) Lord William Cornwallis

 (C) Lord Charles Clausle                                (D) Lord Charles Cornwallis

Ans. Option (D) is correct.

Q. 2. Which revenue system was introduced during his authority?

(A) Ryotwari System.                                     (B) Permanent Settlement

(C) Zamindari System                                     (D) Mahalwari System

 Ans. Option (B) is correct.

Q. 3. What was his designation during his stay in India?

 (A) Governor General of Bengal                               (B) Governor General of India

 (C) Viceroy of India                                        (D) President of East India Company

Ans. Option (A) is correct.

Q. 4. Which was the first princely state that fell prey to the vices of this revenue system?

 (A) Jhansi                           (B) Bengal                          (C) Burdwan                      (D) Mewar

Ans. Option (C) is correct.

III. Observe the picture and answer any three of the following questions by choosing the correct option.

 

 

Q. 1. Identify the personality shown in the painting?

(A) Francis Buchanan      (B) Akbar            (C) Maharaja Mehtab Chand     (D) Tantia Tope

 Ans. Option (C) is correct.

Q. 2. Which estate did he ruled upon?

(A) Agra                               (B) Burdwan                      (C) Deogarh                       (D) Meerut.

Ans. Option (B) is correct.

Q. 3. Whom did he support during the Santhal Rebellion?

(A) British                            (B) Santhals                        (C) Sepoys                          (D) Mughals

 Ans. Option (A) is correct.

 

Q. 4. Name his predecessor.

 (A) Tavertien                    (B) Humayun                     (C) Tejchand                     (D) Nana Saheb

 Ans. Option (C) is correct