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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

Who of the following said these words "Plant more wheat, wheat will win the war"?

  1. President Thomas Jefferson

  2. President Roosevelt

  3. President George Bush

  4. President Wilson
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D Correct answer
Explanation

 During the First World War the world market boomed. Russian supplies of wheat were cut off and the USA had to feed Europe. US President Wilson called upon farmers to respond to the need of the time. 

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 reasons could be attributed to the unwillingness of Indian peasantry to cultivation of Opium?

  1. Opium addiction damages health of people

  2. The cultivation of opium at the existing prices was not profitable for the farmers

  3. The climatic conditions were not suitable for its cultivation in India

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation
The price the government paid to the cultivators for the opium they produced was very low. It was unprofitable for cultivators to grow opium at that price.
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 East India Company started a triangular trade between India-China-Britain

  1. to take balance of trade in favour of the company

  2. to get maximum profits

  3. to attain favour from China

  4. to get profit from India
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A Correct answer
Explanation
The British traders took opium from India to China and tea from China to England. Between India and England trade flowed both ways. By the early 19th century, exports of handlooms from India declined while the export of raw materials (silk and cotton) and foodgrains increased. From England, manufactured goods flowed into India leading to a decline of Indian artisanal production.
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 proper sequence of crops grown by Indian farmers, in early and later nineteenth century during the colonial period was _____.

  1. Wheat, maize, rice, cotton and indigo

  2. Maize, sugarcane, cotton and opium

  3. Indigo, opium, sugarcane, cotton, jute, wheat

  4. Wheat, sugarcane, cotton, jute and indigo
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C Correct answer
Explanation

In the colonial period, rural India also came to produce a range of crops for the world market. In the early nineteenth century, indigo and opium were two of the major commercial crops. By the end of the century, peasants were producing sugarcane, cotton, jute, wheat and several other.

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

During the colonial rule in India, opium was produced in _____.

  1. Rajasthan

  2. Delhi

  3. Goa

  4. Bengal
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The British East India Company established a monopoly on opium cultivation in the Indian province of Bengal, where they developed a method of growing opium poppies cheaply and abundantly.

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
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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
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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
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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
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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.