Monohar Pandey Solutions for Exercise 4: Exercise 4

With reference to the period of colonial rule in India, "Home Charges" formed an important part of drain of wealth from India. Which of the following funds constituted Home Charges?
1. Funds used to support the India Office in London.
2. Funds used to pay salaries and pensions of British personnel engaged in India.
3. Funds used for waging wars outside India by the British.
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Which of the following statements is/are correct?

Match the land revenue settlements with the areas where they were introduced by the British in India

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Silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. Which one among the following is not true of silk routes?

According to the passage, the perman-ent settlement vested

Before the permanent settlement the peasants enjoyed

Patta was a written agreement between the

Assertion (A) Within half a century of the Battle of Plassey, the phenomenal prosperity of Bengal suffered a serious set-back.
Reason (R) The manufacture of cotton goods the most important item of export from India, enormously increased in other parts of India, while it declined in Bengal.
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