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Under the Permanent Settlement, what happened to a zamindar who failed to pay on time?Read the answer and worked solution →The Permanent Settlement is described as the first socio-economic regulation of what kind of India?Read the answer and worked solution →In the ryotwari system, with whom did the government settle land revenue directly?Read the answer and worked solution →Which administrator promoted the ryotwari system in South India?Read the answer and worked solution →Ryotwari was first tried on a small scale in lands taken after wars with which ruler?Read the answer and worked solution →The Bengal famine of 1769-70 is the background of which later novel?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1772, who took over revenue collection directly in the Bengal Presidency?Read the answer and worked solution →Which state was annexed in 1856 under Governor-General Dalhousie?Read the answer and worked solution →Kashmir was sold under the Treaty of Amritsar to which ruling house?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two wars left the Company in control of India south of the Sutlej?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these became a princely state through a subsidiary alliance?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did Company rule end and the British Raj begin?Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1780 and 1860 India shifted from exporting finished goods to exporting what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which crop did the Company use to pay for Chinese tea?Read the answer and worked solution →Which treaty ended the First Opium War and ceded Hong Kong to the British Crown?Read the answer and worked solution →Peasant discontent over indigo cultivation in Bengal led to a revolt in which years?Read the answer and worked solution →Under Warren Hastings, what were the civil courts of first instance in districts called?Read the answer and worked solution →The Declaration Act 1781 barred the Supreme Court from matters of which kind?Read the answer and worked solution →Who founded the Madrasa 'Aliya in Calcutta in 1781?Read the answer and worked solution →The Asiatic Society was founded in Calcutta in 1784 by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Governor-General founded the College of Fort William in 1800?Read the answer and worked solution →Officials who backed support for Indian learning were termed what?Read the answer and worked solution →Anglicists mainly argued for instruction in which language?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1835 document by Thomas Babington Macaulay shaped education policy?Read the answer and worked solution →Persian ceased to be the official language of Company administration and courts by when?Read the answer and worked solution →Who sent the Education Dispatch of 1854 to Lord Dalhousie?Read the answer and worked solution →The Education Dispatch of 1854 proposed universities modelled on which university?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of the three presidency universities was established first, in January 1857?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1856 law gave legal safeguards to remarrying Hindu widows?Read the answer and worked solution →Robert Clive seized which Carnatic capital in 1751 with a small force?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Under the Permanent Settlement, what happened to a zamindar who failed to pay on time?

  1. He paid a small fine
  2. He was sent into exile
  3. He lost his zamindari
  4. He got more time
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Correct answer: C. He lost his zamindari

1. The revenue was fixed at a high level. 2. If zamindars failed to pay it on time, the zamindari right would be taken from them. 3. Many lands were therefore auctioned in the first two decades. _Source: Wikipedia, Company rule in India, Revenue collection_

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The Permanent Settlement is described as the first socio-economic regulation of what kind of India?

  1. Mughal India
  2. Colonial India
  3. Vedic India
  4. Medieval India
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Correct answer: B. Colonial India

1. The Permanent Settlement defined land ownership in the Bengal presidency. 2. It is called the first socio-economic regulation in colonial India. 3. The Mughal, Vedic and medieval periods are earlier and had no such Company regulation. _Source: Wikipedia, Company rule in India, Revenue collection_

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In the ryotwari system, with whom did the government settle land revenue directly?

  1. Big zamindars
  2. Village headmen
  3. Moneylenders
  4. Peasants (ryots)
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Correct answer: D. Peasants (ryots)

1. Ryotwari was promoted by Thomas Munro in South India. 2. The government settled revenue directly with the peasant farmers, called ryots. 3. Zamindars were the intermediaries in the Permanent Settlement instead. _Source: Wikipedia, Company rule in India, Revenue collection_

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