CLASS XII

HISTORY ASSIGNMENT
Colonialism and the Countryside - Exploring Official Archives

1. Why was the jotedar a powerful figure in many areas of rural Bengal?

2. How did zamindars manage to retain control over their zamindaris?

3. How did the Paharias respond to the coming of outsiders?

4. Why did the Santhals rebel against British rule?

5. Explain briefly the importance of the Deccan Riots Report of 1878.

6. What is known as the Sunset Law?

7. What were the shortcomings of the Fifth Report?

8. Discuss the works and achievements of Buchanan.

9. Explain how the deeds and bonds appeared as symbols of the new oppressive system
under colonialism in India.

10. When was the Permanent Settlement introduced in Bengal? Who enforced it? What ideas
worked behind its imposition?

11. What steps were taken by the British East India Company to control the zamindars?

History Assignment
Colonialism and the Country side - CBSE

Q1. Mention the name by which the jotedars were called.

Q2. What do you understand by Benami, limitation law, Sunset law?
Q3. Examine the role played by zamindars in Mughal India.
Q4. Examine how the Ricardo’s idea of land ownership was introduced in the ‘Bombay
Deccan’.
Q5. How did the Paharias respond to the coming of outsiders?
Q6. Why were many zamindaris auctioned after the Permanent settlement?