NCERT Class 12 History Chapter 1 Colonialism and the Countryside Test Mock Test
This free online test covers Chapter 1, Colonialism and the Countryside, from the NCERT Class 12 Themes in Indian History-III textbook. The 30 questions are written directly from the chapter — definitions, processes, worked examples and the points the book italicises — so a score here tells you how much of the chapter actually stuck, not how well you guess. Each answer carries an explanation that says why the right option is right and why the other three fail, which is where most of the learning happens. Attempt it after your first read of the chapter, then again before the exam. There is no negative marking, and you can review the full solution the moment you submit.
Duration
30 mins
Questions
30 MCQs
Total Marks
30 pts
Negative
0 per wrong
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Sample Questions
Q1.What did the Collector discover about the 1797 auction of the Raja of Burdwan's estates?
- AThe estates had been bought entirely by jotedars from North Bengal
- BOver 95 per cent of the sale was fictitious, many purchasers being servants and agents of the raja himself
- CNo bidder came forward, so the estates reverted to the Company
- DThe raja's arrears had in fact been paid before the auction began
Q2.What outcome did British officials hope would follow from permanently fixing the revenue demand in Bengal?
- AThe abolition of the zamindari class and direct settlement with each ryot
- BThe emergence of a class of yeomen farmers and rich landowners with the capital and enterprise to improve agriculture, who would also be loyal to the Company
- CA steady rise in the state's revenue claim as prices and cultivation increased
- DThe conversion of rice land into pasture for the cattle trade
Q3.Under the Permanent Settlement, what was the zamindar's position as defined by the Company?
- ANot a landowner in the village but a revenue collector of the state, who paid the fixed demand and kept the difference as income
- BA hereditary magistrate with full powers over local justice and police
- CThe owner of every field within his estate, with the ryots as his tenants at will
- DA salaried official of the Company paid a fixed commission on collections
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