Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

Match the following options in List 1 correctly with those in List 2:

List 1

List 2

(a) Permanent Settlement

(i) Bengal

(b) Mahalwari System

(ii) Bombay Deccan

(c) Ryotwari Settlement

(iii) North West India

 

Options:

(a)- i, (b)- ii, (c)- iii

(a)- i, (b)- iii, (c)- ii

(a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- ii

(a)- ii, (b)- iii, (c)- i

Correct Answer:

(a)- i, (b)- iii, (c)- ii

Explanation:

The Mahalwari system was introduced by Holt Mackenzie in 1822. The other two systems were the Permanent Settlement in Bengal in 1793 and the Ryotwari system in 1820 (by Thomas Munro in Bombay and Madras). It covered the states of Punjab, Awadh and Agra, parts of Orissa, and Madhya Pradesh.