During their rule the British persuaded or forced cultivators in Madras to grow __________.
Rice
Under British rule the Madras Presidency was a major rice-growing region, and the colonial revenue administration — particularly the Ryotwari system — pressured cultivators to continue growing rice to ensure stable land revenue and food supply for the army and administration.
Jute was a Bengal crop, tea was confined to hill plantations (Assam/Nilgiris), and sugarcane was not the principal coerced crop in Madras.
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Match the List 1 with List 2 and select the correct answer by using the options below
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List 2
a. Nationalisation of Banks
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c. Mandal Commission
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Who was the prime minister of India during ''the Emergency'' between the year 1975 to 1977?
Freedom fighter Sucheta Kripalani, became the first woman chief minister of which state?
The border line which separate Indian and Pakistan is known as ______.
What was the main focus of the First Five-Year Plan?
Important Questions from Post Independence Events
Which poisonous gas killed thousands of people in Bhopal gas tragedy?
- During which significant international conflict was the first National Emergency in India declared?
India was divided into India and Pakistan by the ______ Act.
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"Our general policy is to avoid entanglement in power politics and not to join any group of powers as against any other group. The two leading groups today are the Russian Bloc and the Anglo-American Bloc. We must be friendly to both and yet not join either".
The above words constitute the central idea of which policy?
