Indian Indigo and Its Rise in Popularity

Q. What are cash crops?

1. Crops cultivated to pay off tax.
2. Crops cultivated for one's own use.
3. Crops cultivated for commercial use.
4. None of the above.

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What Is The Opposite Word Of Slave

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The crops which are grown for sale and profit are called ___ ___.

Q. What does the term 'plantation' mean?

1. A revenue estate
2. A printing mill
3. A glass house to grow plants in
4. A large farm

Q. What does the term "slave" mean?

1. A contract worker.
2. A daily wage labourer.
3. A person owned by someone else.
4. A person of the royal family.

Q. The indigo plant grows abundantly in tropical regions.

1. True
2. False

Q. Write difference between a cash crop and a food crop?

Q. How did the East India Company purchase goods in India before 1865 CE?

1. By mining for diamonds in the Indian subcontinent.
2. By importing gold and silver from Britain.
3. By taking a loan from the Portuguese.
4. All of the above.

Q. What is a bigha?

1. An administrative grant
2. A slave
3. A type of tax
4. A unit of measurement of land

Q. Food crops can also be cash crops, but cash crops cannot be food crops.Explain the statement.

Q. Why did European countries pressurize their governments to ban indigo?

1. Indigo was expensive to import.
2. Indigo was hard to cultivate in temperate regions.
3. An indegenious crop like woad which could suffice the same purpose as indigo faced immense competition from indigo.
4. Using indigo was against some religious practices.

Q. What goods did the East India Company trade in when they came to India?

1. Pulses
2. Textiles
3. Diamonds
4. Guns and ammunition

Q. Before the widespread use of indigo, European manufacturers used Nightshade to get violet and blue dyes.

1. True
2. False

Q. What crops did the British cultivate in India?

1. Tea
2. Sugarcane
3. Wheat
4. Indigo

Q. Who was the biggest supplier of Indigo in the world during the 18th century?

1. England
2. India
3. Nepal
4. Sri Lanka

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Name the following:

Crops that are cultivated for sale and to earn profit.

Q. Choose the colonizers and the respective places where they cultivated Indigo.

1. Venezuela
2. Portuguese
3. Caribbean Islands
4. Spanish
5. English
6. Brazil
7. Jamaica
8. French

Q. Q. Which of the following is the single crop
A) banana
B) jute
C) rice
D) wheat

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name the commercial crops the company intended to cultivate and trade.? where did they produce those crops?