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Colonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives — History STD 12 Humanities — Question

CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 HumanitiesHistoryColonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives3 Marks
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"The arguments and evidences offered by the fifth-Report cannot be accepted uncritically,"Give arguments.
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Answer

Critical analysis of the Fifth Report:
  1. Some political groups in Britain opposed the trade monopoly of EIC.
  2. The British Parliament demanded regular reports on the Company’s Administration of India to identify misrule.
  3. Its arguments cannot be accepted uncritically because the Committee was bent on criticizing the EIC’s maladministration.
  4. It overestimated the collapse of the Zamindari system.
  5. It was the fifth series of reports on the administration and activities of the East India Company in India.
  6. It ran into 1002 pages, of which over 800 pages were appendices.
  7. It contained the Information about Company misrule and maladministration.
  8. Incidents of the greed and corruption of Company Officials were discussed.
  9. It overestimated the scale on which zamindars were losing their land.
  10. The revenue was not realized with punctuality.
  11. Defaulters were the members of the old families.
  12. Difficulty to the revenue officers were regard to public assessment.
  13. The actual reason for old zamindari families in defaulting payment was because revenue demands were high and permanent and difficult to collect.
  14. Zamindars deliberately defaulted on payments.
  15. The population did not undermine state authority or fight among themselves according to this philosophy.

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