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In which year was the Permanent Settlement of Bengal concluded?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Governor-General is associated with the Permanent Settlement in Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →The Permanent Settlement was made with whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three branches did the Cornwallis Code create?Read the answer and worked solution →The Permanent Settlement was first introduced in which region?Read the answer and worked solution →Which devastating event of 1770 made Company officials value oversight of revenue officials?Read the answer and worked solution →The East India Company received the diwani of Bengal after which battle?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Prime Minister in 1784 ordered a change of the tax farming system?Read the answer and worked solution →What did fixing the revenue permanently promise the British?Read the answer and worked solution →What happened to the zamindars' right to keep armed forces under the Act of 1793?Read the answer and worked solution →Why was the Permanent Settlement also called the Sunset Law?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Permanent Settlement, what share of the rent was fixed as the state demand?Read the answer and worked solution →Which cash crops were peasants often forced to grow?Read the answer and worked solution →Bentinck said rich proprietors were interested in what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which statesman is credited with the ryotwari system?Read the answer and worked solution →The word ryot refers to which person in the revenue system?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the zamindari method, revenue was collected how?Read the answer and worked solution →Thomas Munro became Governor of which Presidency in May 1820?Read the answer and worked solution →Munro reduced the rate of taxation from one half to what share of gross produce?Read the answer and worked solution →After Madras, the ryotwari system was extended to which Presidency?Read the answer and worked solution →When could a registered ryot not be ejected?Read the answer and worked solution →The shift to land tax payment in cash exposed cultivators to which group when crops failed?Read the answer and worked solution →In zamindari bidding, who became owner of the land?Read the answer and worked solution →What happened to farmers who earlier owned the land?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the king's earlier tax system, what happened to the tax rate in times of famine?Read the answer and worked solution →In which area did the zamindar usually not stand as a middleman between government and farmer?Read the answer and worked solution →Who introduced the Mahalwari system in 1822?Read the answer and worked solution →The word mahal in Mahalwari refers to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which officials represented villages or groups of villages in the Mahalwari system?Read the answer and worked solution →In the Mahalwari system, revenue was determined on the basis of what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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In which year was the Permanent Settlement of Bengal concluded?

  1. 1765
  2. 1833
  3. 1822
  4. 1793
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Correct answer: D. 1793

1. The Permanent Settlement was concluded by the Company administration headed by Earl Cornwallis. 2. The regulations that carried it are dated 1 May 1793. 3. 1765 is the year the Company got the diwani, and 1822 and 1833 relate to the Mahalwari system. _Source: Wikipedia, Permanent Settlement, lead section_

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Which Governor-General is associated with the Permanent Settlement in Bengal?

  1. William Bentinck
  2. Warren Hastings
  3. Lord Dalhousie
  4. Lord Cornwallis
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Correct answer: D. Lord Cornwallis

1. The Permanent Settlement was concluded by an administration headed by Charles, Earl Cornwallis. 2. It formed one part of the larger Cornwallis Code. 3. Hastings tried five-yearly inspections before it, Dalhousie revised Mahalwari rules, and Bentinck revised the 1822 regulation. _Source: Wikipedia, Permanent Settlement, lead section_

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The Permanent Settlement was made with whom?

  1. Village headmen of Punjab
  2. Individual ryots of Madras
  3. Landlords of Bengal
  4. Indigo planters of Bihar
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Correct answer: C. Landlords of Bengal

1. The settlement fixed the revenue to be raised from land. 2. The Company made it with landlords, the zamindars, of Bengal. 3. Dealing with individual ryots was the ryotwari method, and village headmen were part of the Mahalwari system. _Source: Wikipedia, Permanent Settlement, lead section_

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