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CBSE Class 8 Social Studies Worksheet

History - Ruling the Countryside

1.
State Yes or No: India was the biggest supplier of indigo in the world in 20th century.
A) Yes B) No
2.
What is the condition of the slave in the 19th century?
3.
Fill in the blanks: Within the system of NIJ cultivation, the planter produced indigo in ____________ that he directly controlled.
4.
What was manufactured from indigo plants cultivated in India
5.
How is the revenue scale in Permanent Settlement?
6.
What did African slaves had done in 1791 rebellion?
7.
State Yes or No: Munro system was tried on a large scale by Captain Alexander in some of the areas of Bengal that were taken over by the Company after the wars with Tipu Sultan.
A) Yes B) No
8.
What proportion of the population in Bengal was wiped out due to famine 
9.
Fill in the blanks: The rajas and taluqdars were asked to collect rent from the peasants and pay revenue to the ____________.
10.
State Yes or No: The Commission asked the ryots to fulfil their existing contracts but also told them that they could refuse to produce indigo in future.
A) Yes B) No
11.
Fill in the blanks: By the late eighteenth century, the Company was trying its best to expand the cultivation of ____________ and indigo.
12.
State Yes or No: In the century and a half that followed, the British persuaded or forced cultivators in various parts of India to produce crops like wheat in Punjab.
A) Yes B) No
13.
State Yes or No: When the indigo plants fermented, the liquid in which it is immersed began to boil and bubble.
A) Yes B) No
14.
Fill in the blanks: The new revenue system by Holt Mackenzie came to be known as the ____________ settlement.
15.
Fill in the blanks: In the century and a half that followed, the British persuaded or forced cultivators in various parts of India to produce crops like ____________ in Assam.
16.
Fill in the blanks: Intellectuals from Calcutta wrote of the misery of the ryots, the tyranny of the ____________, and the horrors of the indigo system.
17.
State Yes or No: Mahatma Gandhi visit in 1817 marked the beginning of the Champaran movement against the indigo planters.
A) Yes B) No
18.
State Yes or No: After the Revolt of 1847 the British government was particularly worried about the possibility of another popular rebellion.
A) Yes B) No
19.
Who developed Munro System?
20.
Where did French begin cultivating indigo in the 19th century?

CBSE Class 8 Social Studies Worksheet

History - Ruling the Countryside

Answers

1.
Option B

2.
A slave has no freedom and is compelled to work for the master 
3.
Lands
4.
The blue dye used in the Morris prints in nineteenth-century Britain was manufactured from indigo plants cultivated in India 
5.
The revenue decided in Permanent Settlement had been fixed and was so high that the zamindars found it difficult to pay to Company 
6.
In the eighteenth century, The African slaves who worked on the plantations rose in rebellion in 1791, burning the plantations and killing their rich planters 
7.
Option B

8.
About one-third of the population in Bengal was wiped out due to famine 
9.
Company
10.
Option A

11.
Opium
12.
Option A
13.
Option A

14.
Mahalwari
15.
Tea
16.
Planters
17.
Option B
18.
Option B

19.
Munro system was developed by Thomas Munro. 
20.
The French began cultivating indigo in St Domingue in the Caribbean islands during early 19th century 
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