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Study this extract of the Fifth Report and answer any three of the following questions:

Referring to the condition of zamindars and the auction of lands, the Fifth Report stated: 

The revenue was not realised with punctuality, and lands to a considerable extent were periodically exposed to sale by auction. In the native year 1203, corresponding with 1796-97, the land advertised for sale comprehended a jumma or assessment of sicca rupees 28,70,061, the extent of land actually sold bore a jumma or assessment of 14,18,756, and the amount of purchase money sicca rupees 17,90,416. In 1204, corresponding with 1797-98, the land advertised was for sicca rupees 26,66,191, the quantity sold was for sicca rupees 22,74,076, and the purchase money sicca rupees 21,47,580. Among the defaulters were some of the oldest families of the country. Such were the rajahs of Nuddea , Rajeshaye , Bishenpore (all districts of Bengal ) , … and others , the dismemberment of whose estates at the end of each succeeding year, threatened them with poverty and ruin, and in some instances presented difficulties to the revenue officers, in their efforts to preserve undiminished the amount of public assessment.

(a) Choose the correct option: 

Assertion (A): Among the defaulters were some of the oldest families of the country. 

Reason (R): The revenue was not realised with punctuality, and lands to a considerable extent were periodically exposed to sale by auction. 

(i) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A. 

(ii) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A. 

(iii) A is correct but R is wrong. 

(iv) R is correct but A is wrong. 

(b) What are the officials who wrote the Fifth Report trying to show through these figures? 

(i) Maladministration, corruption and misrule by the East India Company officials 

(ii) Drawback of the system of Permanent Settlement 

(iii) Inefficiency in revenue collection 

(iv) Only (ii)and (iii) 

(c) Long term generalisations from these figures of two years may lead to misinterpretation of the actual situation. How? 

(i) As these were the years when zamindars faced problems. 

(ii)There could be exaggeration of facts. 

(iii) Both (i) and (ii). 

(iv) None of the above

(d) What do you think, according to this extract is the meaning of jumma? 

(i) the amount collected as land revenue 

(ii) the amount collected from the auction of the land 

(iii) the official assessment of land revenue 

(iv) All of the above

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a. (ii) 

b. (i) 

c. (iii) 

d. (iii)

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