Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

Arrange the following events in chronological order.

(A) Santhal Rebellion.
(B) Permanent Settlement.
(C) Ryots in Deccan Villages Rebel.
(D) First Revenue Settlement in Bombay Deccan.
(E) East India Company Acquires Diwani of Bengal.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(B), (D), (A), (C), (E)

(C), (A), (B), (E), (D)

(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)

(E), (B), (D), (A), (C)

Correct Answer:

(E), (B), (D), (A), (C)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → (E), (B), (D), (A), (C)

(E) East India Company Acquires Diwani of Bengal: 1765
(B) Permanent Settlement: 1793
(D) First Revenue Settlement in Bombay Deccan: 1818
(A) Santhal Rebellion: 1855-56
(C) Ryots in Deccan Villages Rebel: 1875

Timeline of important events in 18th and 19th century India:

1765: English East India Company acquires Diwani of Bengal
1773: Regulating Act passed by the British Parliament to regulate the activities of the East India Company
1793: Permanent Settlement in Bengal
1800s: Santhals begin to come to the Rajmahal hills and settle there
1818: First revenue settlement in the Bombay Deccan
1820s: Agricultural prices begin to fall
1840s-50s: A slow process of agrarian expansion in the Bombay Deccan
1855-56: Santhal rebellion
1861: Cotton boom begins
1875: Ryots in Deccan villages rebel