Chapter -3

Colonial Agrarian Policies

Q.A Multiple choice questions -

1. The company tried a money experiment to increase the land revenue. Name the
settlementsystem introduced in the Madras and the Bombay presidencies.
a. Permanent settlement system
b. Ryotwari Settlement system-Ans.
c. British Settlement system
d. Mahalwari settlement system
2. In which year was the permanent settlement system started?
a. 1900
b. 1885
c. 1793-Ans.
d. 1890
3. From among the reasons mentioned below, for which reason is the mahalwari settlement
system introduced in 1822?
a. Bombay
b. Madras
c. Uttar Pradesh-Ans.
d. Bihar
4. Who were the gomasthas?
a. Indigo cultivators
b. Rice cultivators
c. Tea cultivators
d. Agents of Indigo planters-Ans.
5 Which one out of the following options correctly list the disadvantages of the nij system
according to the planters?
a. Expansion of area under cultivation
b. Maintenance of plough and bullocks
c. Both a and b are correct-Ans.
d. None of the above.

Q.B fill up the blanks-

1. Mahal means village .
2. The village headman or lamardar collected the revenue and handed over to the
government.
3. There are two main systems of Indigo cultivation in India Nij system and Ryoti system.
4. The system of permanent settlement was introduced in 1793 by Lord Cornwallis .
Q.C Answer the following questions in brief -
1. Why did the Ijardari system fail?

Ans. – This system failed because the bidding had no link with the land’s actual productivity.

2. Why did the British need Indigo?

Ans. - The British needed Indigo to produce the blue dye in clothes. Such clothes were in great
demand in Britain and most of Europe following the industrial revolution.

3. When and where did the Indigo revolt start? Who started it?

Ans. - The Indigo Revolt began as a nonviolent strike in March 1859, as the ryots of a village in
Bengal's Nadia district all agreed to refuse to grow any more indigo. Bishambhar Biswas and
Digambar Biswas first led the rebellion against the planters in Bengal

4. Who was the absentee landlord?

Ans. – Landlord who lived in urban areas and not on/near the land which they owned.

Q.D Answer the following questions in detail-

Q.1 Write short notes-
a. Ijardari system - Ijaradari system was introduced by Warren Hastings. According to this
system, the right to collect revenue was given to the highest bidder. This system did not
last longer, as most of the time the bidding was not related to the actual productivity of
the land.

b. Permanent settlement – The system of permanent settlement was introduced in 1793 by

Lord Cornwallis. It covered Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Benares Division of UP,
accounting for 19 per cent of the British territories.

c. Mahalwari settlement - It was introduced by Holt Mackenzie in 1822. The land revenue
was collected from the farmers by the village headmen on behalf of the whole village.

d. Ryotwari settlement – This system was introduced in Madras presidency by Thomas

Munro. In this system, the peasants or cultivators were regarded as the owners of the
land, that is, ryots. They had ownership rights, could sell, mortgage or gift the land. The
taxes were directly collected by the government from the peasants.
Q.2 Permanent settlement proof beneficial for the East India company but harmful for the
farmers. Analyse this statement with reasons.
Ans. -
Q.3 Briefly describe the Indigo revolts and the outcome in Bengal?
Q.4 What was the impact of commercialization of agriculture for the company and the
Indianpeasants? Explain.
Chapter 5
The revolt of 1857

Q.A multiple choice questions

Q.1 On what grounds annexation of Awadh was done by the Britishers in 1856?
a. Misgovernance – Ans.
b. War crimes
c. Disloyalty
d. All of the above

Q.2 Who was the nawab of Awadh?

a. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah – Ans.
b. .Nana Saheb
c. Fakhruddin Tyabji
d. Badruddin Himand

Q.3 Who was the last Mughal ruler?

a. Akbar 2
b. Aurangzeb
c. Shah Alam -2
d. Bahadur Shah Zafar – Ans.

Q.4 Which one out of the following pairs is incorrect?

a. Kunwar Singh -Arrah

b. Begum Hazrat Mahal - Jhansi
c. Nana Saheb - Kanpur
d. Rani Lakshmi Bai- Jhansi – Ans.

Q.5 Which one of the following was the reason for discontentment of the Indian sepoys
employed by the company?

a. Death of Bahadur Shah Zafar

b. Annexation of Awadh – Ans.
c. Low pay and allowances
d. Annexation of Jhansi

Q.B Fill in the blanks

1.Mangal Pandey was hanged to death for attacking British officers in Barrackpore.
2. 85 soldiers of the third cavalry at Meerut refused to obey the British officers and were
dismissed from service and imprisoned.
3.Nawab of _________ and ________lost their royal titles.
4. The revolt of 1857 started from_________.

Q.C Answer the following questions

in brief & detail-

Q.1 What were the results of 1857?

Q.2 Discuss the social, political, military and religious causes of the
revolt of 1857.

Q.3 Describe the factors that led to the failure of the revolt of 1857.

Q.4 Name the two British political policies of expansion that hurt
Indian rulers the most.

Q.5 Give an example of how Indians were socially discriminated against by the British?

Q.6 Which rumor sparked off this revolt ?

Q.7 Why did the rebels make Bahadur Shah Zafar as their leader?

Q.8 Why were the sentiments of the people hurt?

Q.9 Why Indian soldier did not want to serve overseas?

Q.10 What did the British take to ensure that a rebellion like the one in 1857, did not
arise again?
Chapter 6

Changing pattern of industrialization under the British

Q.A Multiple choice questions

1. The first cotton textile mill was started in Bombay by___________.

a. C.N Dawar
b. Dada bhai Naoroji
 c. Jamshedji Tata
d. Seth Hukumchand

2. Where was India's first cotton textile mill setup?

a. Kolkata
b. Orissa
c. Bombay
d. Madras

3. ________, Broach and Madurai, developed as specialised production centres for

finetextiles.

a. Dacca
b. Visakhapatnam
c. Machilipatnam
d. Calicut

4. The number of cotton mills operating in India by the end of 1900 was-

a. 87
b. 90
c. 20
d. 100

5. Name the Parsi businessman who set up a cotton mill in Bombay in 1854.

a. Jamsetji Tata
b. Dada bhai Nauroji
c. Cowasjee Nanabhai Davur
d. Ratan Tata

Q.B Fill in the blanks

a.In 1877, Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata established the _________ mill at Nagpur.

b.The civil war in _________ helped the Indian cotton industry in the 1860s.

c.Sir Dorabji Tata who in 1907, set up a factory __________.

d. _________ was the finally women cotton textile cloth made in Bengal, India.
e. Bandhani cloth is produced through method of ______ and _____.

Q.C Answer the following questions in brief-

Q.1 Identify the following terms- calico, muslin, chintz, Bandhani

Q.2 What is a factory system?

Q.3 What is De- industrialisation?

Q.4 Identify the new machines introduced during the industrial revolution.

Q.5 What were the consequences of the decline of the Indian textile industry?

Q.D Answer the following questions in detail-

Q.1 Why Indian businessmen stop competing with British cloth.

Q.2 How did the charter act of 1813 affect Indian craftsmen?

Q.3 Describe the beginning of the iron and steel industry in India in the 20th century.

Q.4 What were the causes responsible for the decline of the Indian cotton textile

industryor how did the industrial revolution in England affect the Indian handicraft

industry? Q.5 State the reason for the decline of the iron and steel industry.

Chapter -7

Colonial Education and impacts

Q.A Multiple choice questions-

1. When was the English system of education introduced in India?

a. 1781
b. 1835
c. 1844
d. 1840

2 Aligarh movement was led by

 a. Warren Hastings
b. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
c. M.E Sadler
d. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

3. Who started the Vishva Bharati University?

a. Rabindranath Tagore
b. Satyendra nath Tagore
c. Surendra Nath Tagore
d. Madan Mohan Malviya

4. When was Wood's dispatch introduced?

a. 1854
b. 1857
c. 1890
d. 1895

5. David Hare and Raja Ram Mohan Roy supported_______

a. Setting up a pathshalas and madrasas

b. Western education
c. Teaching of moral values
d. Teaching of Science values

Q B Fill in the blanks

1.The National council of Education was founded by___________.

2. Shantiniketan means ___________.

3. Money coming from the central government for an important project_____________.

4. Dispatch means_______.

5._______________ his famous minutes on Indian education.

Q.C Answer the following questions in one sentence each

1.Who founded the Asiatic Society in 1784 in Calcutta?

2.Who started the general called Asiatic researchers?

3.Who passed the English education act in 1835?

4.Who was the founder of Theosophical society?

5.Who was the founder of Arya samaj?

Q.D Answer the following questions in brief -

Q.1 State the two main provisions of the English education Act, passed by Lord
WilliamBentinck in 1835.

Q.2 List out to provisions of Hunter commission.

Q.3 Write a short note on Gandhi's Nai talim.

Q.4 Describe the contribution of sir Syed Ahmed Khan in the field of education.

Q.E Answer the following questions in detail

Q.1 Describe the main provisions of the Woods Despatch,1854.

Q.2 Elaborate the difference between

Orientalists and the Anglicists.

Q 3 Elucidate the contribution of Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra
Vidyasagarin the field of education.

Q.4 Describe the positive and negative impacts of English education on Indians.

Chapter -8

Women , caste and reform

Q.A Multiple choice questions

1. Followers of Braham samaj started another one in Bombay in 1867. Name the samaj
that fought against social customs like child marriage and remarriage of widows.

a. Ramkrishna mission

b. Prathna samaj

C. Arya samaj

d. Theosophical society

2. Under which governor general did Raja Ram Mohan Roy initiate to ban sati.

a. Lord Mountbatten
b. Lord Dalhousie
c. Lord Ripon
d. William Bentinck

3. Few important points we respect to Raja Ram Mohan Roy are given below select
theone that is not true.

a. Through Brahamo samaj he attempted to reform Hindu society.

b. Raja Ram Mohan Roy encouraged the study of local languages and wanted to
abolish Western education.
c. He tried to show through his writing that the practice of widow burning had no
sanction in ancient text.
d. Indranath Tagore called him a father of the Indian Renaissance.

4. Who wrote Aamar Jiban in 1876.

a. Kadamini Basu
b. Chandramukhi Basu
c. Rasundhari Debi
d. Tarabai Shinde

Q.B fill up the blanks

1. ____________was the city where the first primary school for girls started.
2. _________was a social reformer who work for the upliftment of women.
3. _______________wrote Stripurush Tulna.
4. _________went on to become the first woman physician of India.
 5. The ____________1929, increase the age of consent to 14 for female and 18 for
males.

Q.C Answer the following questions in brief

Q.1 Briefly describe the status of women during the pre colonial time.

Q.2 Why were people not educating women?

Q.3 Write a short note on a stripurush Tulna.

Q.4 Briefly explain the role played by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

Q.D Answer the following questions in detailQ.1

Write short note on-

a. Jyotiba Phule

b. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

C. Dr BR Ambedkar

d. Kandukuri veeresalingam

Q.2 What led the reformers to organize a social reform movement for women in 19th
century India.
Chapter -9

Indian National movement and independence

Q.A Multiple choice questions-

1.A list of leaders is given below. Identify the leader who is not considered as radical but
a moderate.

a. Bipin Chandra Pal

b. Surendranath Banerjee
c. Lala Lajpat Rai
d. Aurobindo Ghosh
2. Who was the first president of the Indian National Congress?

a. A.O Hume
b. W.C Banerjee
c. Badruddin Tyabji
d. Dadabhai Naoroji

3. Identify the Act passed by Lord Lytton.

a. The Arms Act

b. The vernacular press Act
c. The Ilbert bill
d. The Rowlatt Act

4. Who articulated the two nation theory?

a. Badruddin Tyabji
b. M.A Jinnah
c. Ashfaqullah Khan
d. Shaukat Ali

5. The fight for Poorna Swaraj was fought under the presidentship of-

a. Mahatma Gandhi
b. Jawaharlal Nehru
c. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
d. C. Rajagopalachari

6. When was the Gandhi Irwin pact signed?

a. 1931
b. 1951
c. 1921
d. 1941

7. When did Cripps Mission reach India?

a. 1941
b. 1942
c. 1943
 d. 1947

Q.B Answer the following questions in brief /detail-

Q.1 Who headed the Simon commission?

Q.2 Name the two Congress leaders who were arrested on 10th April 1919.

Q.3 What was the role played by A.O Hume?

Q.4 Describe the activities of the nationalists.

Q.5 How and when was Muslim league founded?

Q.6 Describe the Rowlatt Satyagraha.

Q.7 Who were the founders of the Swaraj party?

Q.8 Why was the civil disobedience movement launched in 1932 again?
Q.9 When was the non cooperation movement launched describing its progress?

Q.10 Explain the key features of Gandhi's anti colonial struggle.

Chapter 10

India after independence

Q.1 Multiple choice questions

1. Who was the chairman of the drafting committee?

a. Dr BR Ambedkar
b. PC Joshi
 c. S.C Bose
d. Jawaharlal Nehru

2. How many princely states were there during independence?

a. 560
b. 600
c. 400
d. 550

3. When was Andhra Pradesh created?

a. 1st October 1953

b. 3rd September 1953
c. 1st December 1956
d. 1st January 1956

4. The first 5 year plan was announced in ________.

a. 1950
b. 1951
c. 1960
d. 1961

5. Post independence, millions of people migrated to India from-

a. India
b. Pakistan
c. China
d. Bangladesh

Q.B Fill up the blanks -

a.