Identify the correct statements.

(A) Wajid Ali Shah was exiled to Calcutta.
(B) Taluqdars were dispossessed of the region of Awadh.
(C) "A cherry that will drop into our mouth one day", said Lord Dalhousie.
(D) Revenue demand in Awadh was from 20-30 percent.
(E) British land revenue policy further provided prestige to the authority of the taluqdars.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (B), (C) only

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B), (C) only

(A) Wajid Ali Shah was exiled to Calcutta. (Correct)
(B) Taluqdars were dispossessed of the region of Awadh. (Correct)
(C) "A cherry that will drop into our mouth one day", said Lord Dalhousie. (Correct)
(D) Revenue demand in Awadh was from 20-30 percent.
(E) British land revenue policy further provided prestige to the authority of the taluqdars.

Correction:

(D) Revenue demand in Awadh was from 20-30 percent.

British land revenue officers believed that by removing taluqdars they would be able to settle the land with the actual owners of the soil and thus reduce the level of exploitation of peasants while increasing revenue returns for the state. But this did not happen in practice: revenue flows for the state increased but the burden of demand on the peasants did not decline. Officials soon found that large areas of Awadh were actually heavily overassessed: the increase of revenue demand in some places was from 30 to 70 per cent. Thus neither taluqdars nor peasants had any reasons to be happy with the annexation.

(E) British land revenue policy further provided prestige to the authority of the taluqdars.

The British land revenue policy further undermined the position and authority of the taluqdars. After annexation, the first British revenue settlement, known as the Summary Settlement of 1856, was based on the assumption that the taluqdars were interlopers with no permanent stakes in land: they had established their hold over land through force and fraud.