CBSE Class VIII Social Studies Solutions

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Q1.

Fill in the blanks:

  1. The author of ____________ is Dinabandhu Mitra.
  2. The owners of the plantations were mostly of ____________ origin.
  3. In 1770, a terrible  ____________ occurred in Bengal.
  4. Indigo was used for ____________.
  5. The term ____________ meant a group of villages.
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Q2.

Answer the following in one or few words.

  1. Bonded labour.
  2. The term which literally means peasant
  3. The system which vested the zamindars with land ownership rights whereas before they just had the right to collect revenue.
  4. Large estates on which commercial or cash crops are grown.
  5. The term which was used to refer to a village or a group of villages.
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Q3.

Why was the revenue amount fixed permanently in the Permanent Settlement?

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What were plantations? Who were the planters?

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Q5.

Mention some of the commercial crops that the Indian peasants were forced to grow.

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The commercial crops that the Indian peasants were forced to grow were indigo, tea, coffee, rubber, jute, cotton, silk, opium, etc.

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