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WBCS Main Examination 2022 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 43 of 200

Q43
History of IndiaBritish Rule: Administration, Economy & Society
The Permanent Settlement was passed in the year
  1. a.1803
  2. b.1813
  3. c.1793
  4. d.1834

Answer: (C) 1793

Lord Cornwallis introduced the Permanent Settlement in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in 1793, fixing land revenue permanently and making the zamindars owners of the land. The Charter Act of 1813 ended the Company's trade monopoly in India (except tea and the China trade) and set aside ₹1 lakh for education. 1803 falls in the Second Anglo-Maratha War. 1834 is the year Macaulay arrived as Law Member and the first Law Commission was set up under him.

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