Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

Match the following years in List 1 correctly with the description in List 2 correctly:

List 1 (Years)

List 2 (Description)

(a) 1875

(i) First revenue settlement in the Bombay Deccan.

(b) 1818

(ii) Deccan Riots Report presented in the British Parliament.

(c) 1878

(iii) Ryots rebel in Deccan.

 

Options:

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

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

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

None of the above.

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

Through the nineteenth century, peasants (ryots) in various parts of India rose in revolt against moneylenders and grain dealers. One such revolt occurred in 1875 in the Deccan. The movement began at Supa, a large village in Poona (present-day Pune) district. It was a market centre where many shopkeepers and moneylenders lived. On 12 May 1875, ryots from surrounding rural areas gathered and attacked the shopkeepers, demanding their bahi khatas (account books) and debt bonds. They burnt the khatas, looted grain shops, and in some cases set fire to the houses of sahukars. From Poona, the revolt spread to Ahmednagar. Then over the next two months, it spread even further, over an area of 6,500 square km. More than thirty villages were affected. Everywhere the pattern was the same: sahukars were attacked, account books burnt and debt bonds destroyed. Terrified of peasant attacks, the sahukars fled the villages, very often leaving their property and belongings behind.

1818First revenue settlement in the Bombay Deccan.

When the revolt spread in the Deccan, the Government of Bombay was initially unwilling to see it as anything serious. But the Government of India, worried by the memory of 1857, pressurised the Government of Bombay to set up a commission of enquiry to investigate the causes of the riots. The commission produced a report that was presented to the British Parliament in 1878. This report, referred to as the Deccan Riots Report, provides historians with a range of sources for the study of the riot.