Tag: policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

Quizzes (0) Questions (106)

Questions Related to policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

Multiple choice political science peasants and farmers colonialism and tribal societies peasants and adivasi revolts policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

To persuade the unwilling cultivators to cultivate opium, the government _________.

  1. appointed officer to force farmers

  2. offered loans to cultivators through village headmen

  3. offered very attractive price

  4. gave them free lands
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation


  • Unwilling cultivators were made to produce opium through a system of advances. These loans tied the peasant to the headmen and through him to the government.
  • By giving advances the cultivator, was forced to grow opium on a specified area of land. The farmers were bound to hand over his produce to the government agents and accept the low price offered.

  • He had no option of planting the field with a crop of his choice or selling his product to anyone but the government agent.

  • The cultivator also had no choice but to accept the low price offered for the practice.

Multiple choice political science peasants and farmers colonialism and tribal societies peasants and adivasi revolts policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

The number of opium chests exported to China by the British government in Bengal before 1767 was.

  1. 400

  2. 500

  3. 600

  4. 700
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Before 1767, no more than 500 chests (of two maunds each) were being exported from India. Within four years, the quantity trebled. A hundred years later, in 1870, the government was exporting about 50,000 chests annually. 

Multiple choice political science peasants and farmers colonialism and tribal societies peasants and adivasi revolts policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

In order to finance its 'tea' imports from China, Britain encouraged the cultivation of _______in India.

  1. Cotton

  2. Coffee

  3. Opium

  4. Indigo
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China. The British used the profits from the sale of opium to purchase such Chinese luxury goods as porcelain, silk, and tea, which were in great demand in the West.

Multiple choice political science peasants and farmers colonialism and tribal societies peasants and adivasi revolts policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

Which of the following is/are the impact of agricultural revolution or enclosures on England?

  1. It led to the industrial revolution.

  2. The industrial revolution further led to colonialism.

  3. It led to the use of science and technology in agriculture.

  4. All of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Impacts on England;
1- It led to the industrial revolution.
2- The industrial revolution further led to colonialism.
3- It led to the use of science and technology in agriculture.
4- It led to the increase in production.
5- It reduced England's dependence on Europe for food grains.

Multiple choice political science peasants and farmers colonialism and tribal societies peasants and adivasi revolts policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

Which of the following is not a local name of shifting cultivation?

  1. Milpa

  2. Rabi

  3. Tavy

  4. Jhum
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

. It has many local names such as lading in Southeast Asia, milpa in Central America, chitemene or tavy  in Africa, and chena in Sri Lanka.  In India, dhya, penda, bewar, nevad, jhum, podu, khandad and  kumri are some of the local terms for swidden agriculture. Rabi is a kind of crop.

Multiple choice political science peasants and farmers colonialism and tribal societies peasants and adivasi revolts policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

By $1773$, the British government in Bengal had established a monopoly to trade in ___________.

  1. Indigo

  2. Opium

  3. Tea

  4. Cotton
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

By 1773, the British East India Company had established a strong monopoly over the trade of opium in Bengal, which they exported to China.

Multiple choice political science peasants and farmers colonialism and tribal societies peasants and adivasi revolts policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

Why was common land essential for survival of the poor in England?

  1. Common land supplemented income of the poor and helped them during bad times

  2. Poor could move freely in common land

  3. Poor could set up industry in common land

  4. All the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Common land provided essential resources like fuel, grazing for livestock, and foraging, which acted as a safety net for the poor in rural England.

Multiple choice political science peasants and farmers colonialism and tribal societies peasants and adivasi revolts policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

Which one of the following is the appropriate reason that excited swing rioters to destroy threshing machines during $1930s$ in England?

  1. They broke these machines in the name of Captain Swing

  2. These machines deprived workmen of their livelihood

  3. Captain Swing was a person who broke all these machines

  4. They were threatening landloads
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Threshing machines replaced manual threshing labor, throwing agricultural workers out of jobs. The Swing riots (1830s, not 1930s) were protests by impoverished farm workers destroying these machines that threatened their livelihoods. Captain Swing was a symbolic name, not a real person.