Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

Match List I with List II.

List - I

List - II

 (A) Official Source

 (I) Native Opinion

 (B) Newspaper Source

 (II) Hill Village in Rajmahal  

 (C) Painting

 (III) Amar Katha

 (D) Diaries/Autobiography/Unofficial Accounts  

 (IV) Deccan Riot Report 

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

The correct match is:

List - I

List - II

 (A) Official Source

 (IV) Deccan Riot Report

 (B) Newspaper Source

 (I) Native Opinion

 (C) Painting

 (II) Hill Village in Rajmahal 

 (D) Diaries/Autobiography/Unofficial Accounts  

 (III) Amar Katha

Explanation:

Deccan Riots Report, provides historians with a range of sources for the study of the riots in the Deccan. It is an official source of information for the riots. The commission held enquiries in the districts where the riots spread, recorded statements of ryots, sahukars and eyewitnesses, compiled statistical data on revenue rates, prices and interest rates in different regions, and collated the reports sent by district collectors.

The following report, titled ‘The ryot and the moneylender’, appeared in the Native Opinion (6 June 1876), and was quoted in Report of the Native Newspapers of Bombay: They (the ryots) first place spies on the boundaries of their villages to see if any Government officers come, and to give timely intimation of their arrival to the offenders. They then assemble in a body and go to the houses of their creditors, and demand from them a surrender of their bonds and other documents, and threaten them in case of refusal with assault and plunder. If any Government officer happens to approach the villages where the above is taking place, the spies give intimation to the offenders and the latter disperse in time.

A view of a hill village in Rajmahal was painted by William Hodges in 1782.

Binodini Dasi (1863-1941) was a pioneering figure in Bengali theatre in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and worked closely with the dramatist and director Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844-1912). She was one of the prime movers behind the setting up of the Star Theatre (1883) in Calcutta which became a centre for famous productions. Between 1910 and 1913 she serialised her autobiography, Amar Katha (My Story). A remarkable personality, she exemplified the problem women faced in recasting their roles in society.