Chapter 10: Colonialism and Countryside

Important Questions

1. What were the reasons behind the failure of permanent settlement?

2. What was the objective behind the implementation of permanent settlement?

3. Why Zamindars did not like Jotedars?

4. When was Santhal revolt happened?

5. What was the Ryotwari system?

Sample Questions

1. When was cotton production boom in India? And what was effect on people of this?

2. The Permanent Settlement was made with the rajas and taluqdars of which region?

3. How the Deeds and bonds appeared as symbols of the new oppressive system for the Peasants? [CBSE 2014]

4. How did the Paharias respond to the coming of outsiders [CBSE 2017]

5. What explains the anger of the Deccan ryots against the moneylenders? [CBSE 2019]

6. Why was jotedar a powerful figure in many areas of rural Bengal ? [CBSE 2019]