Fifth Report is NOT associated with:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → British Rule in India in the 20th century.
Option (1) British Rule in India in the 20th century. — Not associated with the Fifth Report. The Fifth Report was submitted to the British Parliament in 1813, early in the nineteenth century, and it deals with rural Bengal in the late eighteenth century. It could not be about British rule in the twentieth century.
Option (2) Rural Bengal of the 18th century. — Associated with the Fifth Report. For over a century and a half, the report has shaped our idea of what happened in rural Bengal in the late eighteenth century.
Option (3) Parliamentary debates on the nature of British East India Company’s rule in India. — Associated with the Fifth Report. Produced by a Select Committee, it became the basis of intense parliamentary debates on the nature of the Company’s rule in India.
Option (4) Collapse of traditional Zamindari power. — Associated with the Fifth Report. Recent research shows that the report, keen to criticise the Company’s maladministration, exaggerated the collapse of traditional zamindari power.
NCERT (2026-27): “1.6 The Fifth Report … Many of the changes we are discussing were documented in detail in a report that was submitted to the British Parliament in 1813. It was the fifth of a series of reports on the administration and activities of the East India Company in India. Often referred to as the Fifth Report, it ran into 1002 pages, of which over 800 pages were appendices that reproduced petitions of zamindars and ryots, reports of collectors from different districts, statistical tables on revenue returns, and notes on the revenue and judicial administration of Bengal and Madras (present-day Tamil Nadu) written by officials.… 1.6 The Fifth Report … The Fifth Report was one such report produced by a Select Committee. It became the basis of intense parliamentary debates on the nature of the East India Company’s rule in India. For over a century and a half, the Fifth Report has shaped our conception of what happened in rural Bengal in the late eighteenth century.… 1.6 The Fifth Report … They indicate that, intent on criticising the maladministration of the company, the Fifth Report exaggerated the collapse of traditional zamindari power, as also overestimated the scale on which zamindars were losing their land.…” |