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Between 1783 and 1789, world indigo production:Read the answer and worked solution →By 1810, what share of the indigo imported into Britain came from India?Read the answer and worked solution →The slave revolt that wrecked French indigo plantations in St Domingue broke out in:Read the answer and worked solution →In which system did planters grow indigo on land they directly controlled with hired labour?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the ryoti system, the loan committed a ryot to grow indigo on at least what share of his holding?Read the answer and worked solution →In which vat was the indigo solution stirred and beaten with paddles until it turned blue?Read the answer and worked solution →The Blue Rebellion of indigo ryots in Bengal began in:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Barasat magistrate's notice that ryots need not accept indigo contracts was read as support for the rebellion?Read the answer and worked solution →After the rebellion, the government set up which body, which held the planters guilty?Read the answer and worked solution →After indigo collapsed in Bengal, planters shifted their operations to:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi's visit that began the Champaran movement against indigo planters took place in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the revenue systemsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the indigo wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the countryside datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the countryside wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Settlement or indigoRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the revenue systemsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Countryside bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Birsa Munda, seen roaming the forests in 1895 and hailed as bhagwan, belonged to which region?Read the answer and worked solution →In Birsa's movement, the outsiders blamed for enslaving tribal people were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Shifting cultivation on burnt forest patches, practised by many tribes, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Khonds, who lived by collective hunts and forest produce, belonged to the forests of:Read the answer and worked solution →Which central Indian tribe thought it below their dignity to work as labourers for others?Read the answer and worked solution →The Van Gujjars of the Punjab hills and the Labadis of Andhra Pradesh were:Read the answer and worked solution →Which British anthropologist lived among the Baigas and Khonds in the 1930s and 1940s?Read the answer and worked solution →Among the Mundas of Chottanagpur, land traditionally belonged to:Read the answer and worked solution →Which settled tribal groups did British officials see as more civilised than shifting cultivators?Read the answer and worked solution →Where did jhum cultivators successfully insist on continuing shifting cultivation?Read the answer and worked solution →Forests producing timber the British wanted were classified as:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Between 1783 and 1789, world indigo production:

  1. Stayed flat
  2. Fell by half
  3. Doubled up
  4. Tripled up
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Correct answer: B. Fell by half

1. Supplies from the West Indies and America collapsed. 2. Output fell by half. 3. Britain turned to India. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 3, Ruling the Countryside._

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By 1810, what share of the indigo imported into Britain came from India?

  1. 50 per cent
  2. 10 per cent
  3. 95 per cent
  4. 30 per cent
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Correct answer: C. 95 per cent

1. In 1788 it was only about 30 per cent. 2. By 1810 it was 95 per cent. 3. Bengal indigo dominated the world market. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 3, Ruling the Countryside._

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The slave revolt that wrecked French indigo plantations in St Domingue broke out in:

  1. 1783
  2. 1810
  3. 1859
  4. 1791
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Correct answer: D. 1791

1. France abolished slavery in its colonies in 1792. 2. The revolt came in 1791. 3. Caribbean indigo collapsed. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 3, Ruling the Countryside._

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