History Quiz, 15 October 2018

The economic policies followed by the British led to the rapid transformation of India’s economy into a colonial economy. Consider the following statements regarding the existence of basic economic pattern after the settlement of British in India:
I. The peasant, the artisan, and the trader had continued to lead the same type of existence as before.
II. The British always remained foreigners in the land, exploiting Indian resources and carrying away India’s wealth as tribute.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

There was a sudden and quick collapse of the urban handicrafts which had for centuries made India’s name a byword in the markets of the entire civilised world. Consider the following statements regarding the ruin of artisans and craftsmen after establishment of British rule in India:
I. The collapse of the urban handicrafts was caused largely by competition with the cheaper imported machine-goods from Britain.
II. The British imposed a policy of one-way free trade on India after 1813 and the invasion of British manufactures, in particular cotton textiles, immediately followed.
III. The ruin of Indian industries, particularly rural artisan industries, proceeded even more rapidly once the railways were built.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the condition of Indian industries after British conquest:
I. The cotton weaving and spinning industries were the worst like silk and woollen textiles fared no better and a similar fate overtook the iron, pottery, glass, paper, metals, shipping, oil-pressing, tanning and dyeing industries.
II. The oppression practised by the East India Company and its servants on the craftsmen of Bengal during the second half of the 18th century, forcing them to free distribute their goods.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the import and export of good after British conquest in India:
I. The high import duties and other restrictions imposed on the import of Indian goods into Britain and Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, combined with the development of modern manufacturing industries in Britain, led to the virtual closing of the European markets to Indian manufacturers after 1820.
II. The British policy of exporting raw materials also injured Indian handicrafts by raising the prices of raw materials like cotton and leather.
III. The gradual disappearance of Indian rulers and their courts who were the main customers of town handicrafts also gave a big blow to these industries.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

British conquest led to the deindustrialisation of the country and increased dependence of the people on agriculture. Consider the following statements regarding this change of de-industrialisation in India:
I. According to Census Reports, between 1901 and 1941 alone the percentage of population dependent on agriculture increased from 63.7 per cent to 70 per cent.
II. This increasing pressure on agriculture was one of the major causes that agriculture was more profitable under British rule.
III. India became an agricultural colony of manufacturing Britain which needed it as a source of raw materials for its industries.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the impoverishment of the peasantry in India after British conquest:
I. The British Government took the place of the Zamindars and levied excessive land revenue which was in the beginning fixed as high as one-third to one-half of the produce.
II. Heavy assessment of land was one of the main causes of the growth of poverty and the deterioration of agriculture in the 19th century.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

By the end of the 19th century the money-lender had become a major curse of the countryside and an important cause of the growing poverty of the rural people. Consider the following statements regarding the debt and poverty situation of India by the end of the 19th century:
I. In 1911 the total rural debt was estimated at Rs.300 crores which amounted to Rs. 1,800 crores in 1937.
II. The pressure of taxation and growing poverty pushed the cultivators into debt which in turn increased then poverty.
III. The growing commercialisation of agriculture also helped the money- lender-cum-merchant to exploit the cultivator.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?