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Tamil Nadu Board 11th Standard History Unit 17: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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Unit 17 - Effects of British Rule

I. Choose the Correct Answer

Question 1.

_________ was the real foundation battle for British dominion in India.
(a) Plassey

(b) First Carnatic War
(c) Buxar

(d) Wandiwash

Answer Key:

Question 2.

According to the __________ treaty, Shah Alam II granted the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the company.
(a) Allahabad

(b) Madras
(c) Poona

(d) Pondicherry

Answer Key:

(a) Allahabad

Question 3.

_________ introduced the Dual system in Bengal.
(a) Warren Hastings

(b) Dupleix
(c) Cornwallis

(d) Robert Clive

Answer Key:

(d) Robert Clive

Question 4.

_________ was passed to regulate the Company affairs in India.
(a) Regulating Act (1773)
(b) The Pitt India Act (1784)
(c) Charter Act (1813)
(d) Charter Act (1833)

Answer Key:

(a) Regulating Act (1773)

Question 5.

_________ was the first Viceroy and Governor General of India accountable to the British Parliament.
(a) Cornwallis

(b) Canning
(c) Wellesley

(d) Hastings

Answer Key:

(b) Canning

Question 6.

Cornwallis made the Permanent Settlement with the Zamindars of __________.
(a) Mysore

(b) Bombay
(c) Bengal

(d) Madras

Answer Key:

Question 7.

_________ introduced the ryotwari System.
(a) Cornwallis
(b) Thomas Munro
(c) Robert Clive
(d) Warren Hastings

Answer Key:

(b) Thomas Munro

Question 8.

The British officer who ended the menace of Thuggee was __________
(a) William Adam
(b) William Sleeman
(c) James Holland
(d) John Nicholson

Answer Key:

(b) William Sleeman

Question 9.

_________ was the first state to fall under the policy of Doctrine of Lapse.
(a) Nagpur

(b) Oudh
(c) Jhansi

(d) Satara

Answer Key:

(d) Satara

Question 10.

_________ justified forcible collection of land revenue.
(a) ryotwari Act
(b) Pitt India Act
(c) Permanent Settlement Act
(d) Torture Act

Answer Key:

(d) Torture Act

Question 11.

_________ introduced English as the literary and official language of India.
(a) Cornwallis

(b) William Bentinck
(c) Macaulay

(d) Thomas Munroe

Answer Key:

(b) William Bentinck

Question 12.

Madras University was established in __________.

(a) 1837

(b) 1861
(c) 1844

(d) 1857

Answer Key:

(d) 1857

Question 13.

The efforts of __________ played a decisive part in getting the practice of sati abolished.
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) William Jones
(c) Raja Rammohan Roy
(d) Dayanand Saraswati

Answer Key:

Question 14.

The first railway line in south India ran from Royapuram to __________ in 1856.
(a) Vaniampadi

(b) Katpadi
(c) Villupuram

(d) Arcot

Answer Key:

(d) Arcot

Question 15.

Find out the correct statement.
(a) The Governor General was selected by the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
(b) The Subsidiary System decreased the military resources and efficiency of the Company.
(c) The establishment of the Madrasa by Lord Wellesley was the beginning of British Government to promote education.
(d) Lord Dalhousie founded the Calcutta Medical College in March 1835.

Answer Key:

(a) The Governor General was selected by the Court of Directors of the East India Company.

Question 16.

Assertion (A): The British Government initiated steps for the building of dams.
Reason (R): There were successive famines in last quarter of the 19th Century.
(a) A is correct; R is wrong.
(b) A is correct R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is correct; R is the correct explanation of A
(d) A is wrong; R is correct

Answer Key:

(d) A is wrong; R is correct

Question 17.

Which of the following pairs is wrongly matched?
(a) Gangadhar Rao        - Jhansi
(b) Raghuji Bhonsle        - Nagpur
(c) Shaji                            - Satara
(d) Scindia                        - Kolhapur

Answer Key:

(d) Scindia - Kolhapur

Question 18.

Match the following
(A) Arthur Cotton               - 1.Sanskrit College
(B) William Sleeman            - 2. Kollidam
(C) William Bentinck           - 3. Thuggee Menace
(D) Cornwallis                    - 4. Abolition of Sati Act
(a) 4, 1, 2, 3

(b) 2, 3, 4, 1
(c) 3, 2, 1, 4

(d) 2, 1, 4, 3

Answer Key:

(b) 2, 3, 4, 1

II. Write Brief Answers

1. The Regulating Act, 1773.

The court of Directors informing all revenue transactions of the Company servants to the British Treasury.
The Governor ,Commander-in-Chief and two counsellors sat as a Board of Revenue.
The Board of Revenue is discussed Revenue matters.

2. Governor Thomas Munro.

He was The Governor of Madras Presidency in 1820.
He officially enforced the Ryotwari System in Madras.
He also emphasized the need for Indianization of the services.

3. Distinction between ‘Presidency’ and ‘Province’.

Presidency	Province
The British called Presidency the place where the office of Chief Administrative Head was situated.	Later when the Presidency became unwieldy for governance.
The British called Presidency the place where the office of Chief Administrative Head was situated.	So they created provinces like central and united provinces

4. "The biggest contribution of Cornwallis was in the field of civil services" – Explain.

Cornwallis provided scope for employing capable and honest public servants.
He put an end to the old tradition of the civil service.
He appointed people solely on merit.

5. Write a note on irrigation development under the British.

Arthur Cotton built a dam across the Kollidam.
Built a dam across the Krishna river.
Jumna canal was completed in 1830.

6. Write a note on Dacca Muslin.

Dacca muslin was made from silk like cotton.
It was produced largely in Bengal.
This was great welcome to world wide.

7. "Drain of wealth impoverished India" – How?

Incentive to the shareholders of the Company.
Savings and the salaries of European officials, European traders and Planters remitted to England.
Pensions to those who retired from civil and military services.

III. Write Short Answers

1. “Dual System”.

By the treaty of Allahabad the British got the Diwani and Nizamath rights.
The Diwan’s duty included the collection of revenue and the control of civil justice.
The Nizam’s function was to exercise military power and to dispense criminal justice.
The Company acquired the real power, while the responsibility of administration was with the Nawab.

2. How did the Zamindars acquire hereditary rights over the lands assigned by the Government?

Cornwallis introduced the permanent land settlement in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
This was creation of a new type of middle men, called zamindars.
This tax was fixed permanently.
Thus the zamindars who were originally tax collectors acquired hereditary rights over the land assigned by the government.

3. Doctrine of Lapse.

Traditionally Hindu custom allowed the adoption of a son in the absence of male heirs.
Ther was a doubt here whether those adopted male hiers could assume power without the permission of powerful british government.
The Governor General Dalhousie proclaimed that sanctioning permission was upto the wish of the government.
By applying this policy known as Doctrine of Lapse, the first state to fall was Satara.

4. Reforms of Cornwallis in judicial administration.

At the top of the judicial system were the Sadar Diwani Adalat and the Sadar Nizamat Adalat.
Four provincial courts of appeal at Calcutta, Deccan, Murshidabad and Patna.
The District and City courts, each presided over by a European judge assisted by Indians.
At the bottom of the judicial system were courts under Indian judges, called munsifs.

5. Dispatch of Charles Wood.

Its outlined a comprehensive scheme of education-primary, secondary, collegiate.
Departments of Public Instruction were established.
Under this plan Madras, Bombay and Calcutta Universities were established.
He also agreed to the principle of grants-in-aid to private effort.

6. Pindaris and Thuggees.

Pindaris were free booters composed of both Muslim and Hindu bands.
The Subsidiary Alliance of the Company had led to the disbandment of thousands of soldiers and most of them joined them.
Thugs were murdered unsuspecting travellers in the name of the goddess Kali.
Bentinck placed William Sleeman in charge of the operation to eliminate the Thuggee menace.

7. Impact of Industrial Revolution on Indian handloom weavers.

India was systematically de-industrialized.
India became a market for Lancashire cottons.
Cheap machine-made British goods led to the flooding of Indian markets.
These goods were more durable and cost less. So its affected indian weavers and traders.

8. Indentured Labour System.

It was a penal contract system.
The coolie had to work in jail-like condition.
They punishable by forfeiture of wages or imprisonment.
The contract prohibited the formation of associations.

IV. Answer the following in detail

1. Explain the Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Lord Wellesley.

An Indian ruler entering into Subsidiary Alliance with the British had to dissolve his own armed forces.
They accept British forces and a British Resident in his territory.
He had to pay for the British army’s maintenance.
The protected prince was to sever all connections with European powers other than the British, especially the French.
No European should be employed without the permission of the British.
No negotiation with any Indian power should be held without the
Company’s permission.
No other Indian power to interfere in its internal affairs.

2. What was the nature of educational development under Company’s Rule?

The establishment of a Madrasa by Warren Hastings was the beginning of initiatives of British government to promote education.
Cornwallis established a Sanskrit college in Benares.
In 1813, Charter was to force on the Company the initiative for a regular educational policy.
Hastings encouraged the foundation of vernacular schools by missionaries.
Calcutta Medical College, Bombay Grant Medical College, Thomason Engineering College at Roorkee were established.
Macaulay recommended English as medium of instruction.
The Educational Dispatch of Charles Wood (1854) outlined a comprehensive scheme of education-primary, secondary, collegiate.
Madras , Bombay and Calcutta universities were established.

3. Narrate the circumstances leading to the passing of the Indian Forest Act, 1865 and point out its effects.

Circumstances:

forests were destroyed in their effort to extend the areas of cultivable land.
Zamins were created out of Jungle Mahal forests and auctioned off for regular cultivation.
The original inhabitants of this region, the Santhals were evicted, so they protest against British.
Timber came to be exploited with the massive construction of the railway system.

Effects:

This was a draconian act which restricted the use of forest resources by indigenous groups who resented it.
In order to contain protest and resistance the British enacted the dreaded Criminal Tribes Act, 1871.
During the entire colonial period there were frequent insurrections by tribal people against the colonial state.