Question

Make simple questions based on each section of the chapter (Landlords and Tenants under the British and the Nizam) and ask one another. Check if the answers are correct.

1. What is Khudkasht?

2. Who introduced the Permanent Settlement of Tax and when?

3. What happened if the Zamindars could not pay the tax?

4. What are ‘ceded’ districts?

5. Who built the Prakasam Barrage?

6. Based on how many years, the Ryotwari war fixed?

7. When was the American Civil War started?

8. What was the forced labour without payment called?

9. What were the forms of income did the Zamindars expect from farmers?

10. With what did they compensate the old landlords in Hyderabad state?

11. Write an example for severe famine.

12. Write the names of any two peasant movements.

Answer 1

1) It means self-cultivated land.

2) Cornwallis introduced this in 1793.

3) They became defaulters.

4) Bellary, Ananthapur, Kurnool and Kadapa.

5) Sir Arthur Cotton.

6) 20, 30 years.

7) In 1861.

8) Vetti

9) Ghee, milk, vegetables, grass/straw, cowdung cakes etc.

10) They paid ‘Rusum’, an annual payment.

11) Ganjam Famine.

12) The Deccan riots of 1860s, Rampa fituries, Moppila agitations etc.