Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

When was the report of the Deccan Riots Commission presented to the British Parliament?

Options:

1877

1878

1879

1880

Correct Answer:

1878

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - 1878

In 1877, the government constituted the Deccan Riot inquiry commission. The commission produced a report that was presented to the British Parliament in 1878.

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 into 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. 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.