Ruling the Countryside Class 8 Case Study Social Science History Chapter 3

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Hello students, we are providing case study questions for class 8 social science. Case study questions are the new question format that is introduced in CBSE board. The resources for case study questions are very less. So, to help students we have created chapterwise case study questions for class 8 social science. In this article, you will find case study for CBSE Class 8 Social Science History Chapter 3 Ruling the Countryside. It is a part of Case Study Questions for CBSE Class 8 Social Science Series.

Chapter	Ruling the Countryside
Type of Questions	Case Study Questions
Nature of Questions	Competency Based Questions
Board	CBSE
Class	8
Subject	Social Science – History
Useful for	Class 8 Studying Students
Answers provided	Yes
Difficulty level	Mentioned
Important Link	Class 8 Social Science Chapterwise Case Study

Case Study Questions on Ruling the Countryside Class 8

Questions

Passage 1: Being a plant of the temperate zones, woad was more easily available in Europe. It was grown in northern Italy, southern France and parts of Germany and Britain. Worried by the competition from indigo, woad producers in Europe pressurized their governments to ban the import of indigo. Cloth dyers, however, preferred indigo as a dye. Indigo produced a rich blue colour, whereas the dye from woad was pale and dull. By the seventeenth century, European cloth producers persuaded their governments to relax the ban on indigo imports. The French began cultivating indigo in St Domingue in the Caribbean islands, the Portuguese in Brazil, the English in Jamaica and the Spanish in Venezuela. Indigo plantations also came up in many parts of North America.

Directions for questions 1 to 5 are given below. Based on the above passage, choose the correct option:

Q. 1. Why did cloth dyer prefer indigo in place of woad?
(a) It was cheap
(b) Easily available in the European market
(c) It produced rich blue colour.
(d) It was suitable for temperate zone.

Difficulty Level: Easy

Ans. Option (c) is correct.

Q. 2. European cloth producers persuaded their government to relax the ban on indigo import. This statement is true or false.
(a) true
(b) false

Difficulty Level: Easy

Ans. Option (a) is correct.

Q. 3. Where does the Portuguese cultivated indigo?
(a) Venezuela
(b) St. Domingue
(c) Brazil
(d) Jamaica

Difficulty Level: Easy

Ans. Option (c) is correct.

Q. 4. Why did the cloth dyer not preferred wood?
(a) It was dull and pale.
(b) It was not available easily.
(c) It was not suited for tropical climate.
(d) It was expensive.

Difficulty Level: Easy

Ans. Option (a) is correct.

Q. 5. Where was woad not grown?
(a) Italy
(b) Germany
(c) Britain
(d) India

Difficulty Level: Medium

Ans. Option (d) is correct.

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Topics from which case study questions may be asked

• Understand after acquiring the Diwani of Bengal how the company tried to maximise its profit from the territory.
• Main source of land revenue was agriculture and how the efforts were made for maximum revenue generation.
• Agricultural reform that was initiated. Introduction of permanent settlement.
• Drawbacks of permanent settlement.
• To remove the problems of permanent settlement, new system was introduced Mahalwari system.
• Understand Munro system and its consequences.
• To expand the cultivation of crops that they needed; they used a variety of methods.
• Two systems were used by indigo cultivators -nij and ryoti.
• Reason and consequences of Blue-rebellion by Indigo cultivators.

On 12 August 1765, the Mughal emperor appointed the East India Company as the Diwan of Bengal. The actual event most probably took place in Robert Clive’s tent, with a few Englishmen and Indians as witnesses. As Diwan, the Company became the chief financial administrator of the territory under its control. Now it had to think of administering the land and organising its revenue resources. This had to be done in a way that could yield enough revenue to meet the growing expenses of the company. A trading company had also to ensure that it could buy the products it needed and sell what it wanted. Over the years the Company also learnt that it had to move with some caution. Being an alien power, it needed to pacify those who in the past had ruled the countryside, and enjoyed authority and prestige. Those who had held local power had to be controlled but they could not be entirely eliminated.

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