Land revenue system

Question 1

What was the name of the land revenue system introduced by Warren Hastings? In which year was it introduced?

Answer 1

Farming System or Panchshala Bandobast
Year: 1772

Question 2

Who introduced the permanent settlement of land revenue? When?

Answer 2

Lord Cornwallis
Year: 1793

Question 3

What were the main provisions of permanent settlement?

Answer 3

1. The zamindar was recognised as the ruler of the land and was given the right to collect the land revenue.
2. The land revenue walls paid annually.
3. At 10 years settlement was made with the zamindars
4. Zamindars had to pay 10/11 to the company and keep 1/11 to themselves.

Question 4

What was the amount of annual revenue set for permanent settlement?

Answer 4

Rs. 2 Crore and 68 lakh

Question 5

In which area was the permanent settlement introduced in?

Answer 5

Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Varanasi, Ghazipur and North Karnataka

Question 6

Who introduced the ryotwari system of land revenue? When?

Answer 6

Sir Thomas Munro and Captain Alexander Read
Year: 1820

Question 7

Ryotwari System was first implemented in ___________ in the year _______ by _________

Answer 7

Baramahal District in Madhya Pradesh in the year 1792 by Captain Read

Question 8

When was the Ryotwari system introduced in Bombay and Deccan?

Answer 8

Bombay: 1825
Deccan: 1858

Question 9

Ryotwari system was introduced in

Answer 9

1. Madras
2. Bombay
3. East Bengal
4. Assam
5. Coorg

Question 10

Mahalwari system was introduced by

Answer 10

Holt Mackenzie

Question 11

Who is known as the ‘father of land settlement in North India’?

Answer 11

Robert Martin Bird

Question 12

Mahalwari system was legally sanctioned by which act?

Answer 12

Regulation of 1822

Question 13

All India spinner association was formed by

Answer 13

Mahatma Gandhi

Question 14

All India village industry association was formed by

Answer 14

Mahatma Gandhi

Question 15

The first railway engine was designed by

Answer 15

George Stephenson

Question 16

The first railway line in India was laid in between _________ and __________ by __________ in the year _______

Answer 16

Bombay and Thane by Great Indian Peninsula Railway in the year 1853

Question 17

In 1854, 120 mile railway line was laid between __________ and _______ by _________

Answer 17

Calcutta and Raniganj by East India Railway

Question 18

The first telegragh line was opened from _____________ to _____________ in the year ______

Answer 18

Calcutta to Agra in the year 1853

Question 19

The first newspaper was published by _________ titled ______ in the year _____

Answer 19

James Augustus Hickey titled The Bengal Gazette in the year 1780

Question 20

When was the first cotton factory setup in Bombay? By whom? What was it named?

Answer 20

1853
Parsi Kavsaji Nanabhai Davar
Bombay spinning and weaving company

Question 21

Jamshedji Tata sit up a cloth manufacturing company in the year______ and named it ______

Answer 21

1874
The Central India Spinning, Weaving and Manufacturing Company in Victoria Mills, later renamed Empress Mill when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India on 1 January 1877

Question 22

The first jute factory was set up at _______ by _______ in the year ______ financed by _______

Answer 22

Risra near Serampore, Bengal by Acland Mill in the year 1855 financed by Babu Bysumbur Sen

Question 23

When was the Birla jute company established?

Answer 23

1919

Question 24

Who established TISCO? When? Where?

Answer 24

Jamshedji Tata
Year: 1907
@ Jamshedpur, Bihar

Question 25

Who wrote ‘The poverty and un British rule in India’? When?

Answer 25

Dadabhai Naoroji
1901

Question 26

Who wrote ‘The Economic History of India’? When?

Answer 26

RC Dutt
1902

Question 27

Dadabhai Naoroji first explained drain of wealth from India in

Answer 27

His article “England’s debt to India”

Question 28

Dadabhai naoroji’s drain of wealth theory was accepted in which session of the Congress?

Answer 28

1896 Calcutta Session

Question 29

Wrote open letters to Curzon on famines and land assessment in India?

Answer 29

RC Dutt