Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

Match the following options of List 1 correctly with that of List 2:

List 1

List 2

(a) 3 Years

(i)  Tobacco and Mustard

(b) Mirzapur

(ii) Resurvey of lands

(c) Gunjuriya

(iii) Life of Limitation law

(d) 30 years

(iv) Cotton’s collection center.

 

Options:

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

In 1859 the British passed a Limitation Law that stated that the loan bonds signed between moneylenders and ryots would have validity for only three years.


Before the railway age, the town of Mirzapur was a collection center for cotton from the Deccan.

Unlike the Bengal system, the revenue was directly settled with the ryot. In the Ryotwari system, the average income from different types of soil was estimated, the revenue-paying capacity of the ryot was assessed and a proportion of it was fixed as the share of the state. The lands were resurveyed every 30 years and the revenue rates increased. Therefore the revenue demand was no longer permanent.

Buchanan wrote: “Gunjuriya is just sufficiently cultivated to show what a glorious country this might be made. I think its beauty and riches might be made equal to almost any in the universe.” The soil here was rocky but “uncommonly fine”, and nowhere had Buchanan seen finer tobacco and mustard.