Question

Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct response from the potions given thereafter:

List-I	List-II
a) The British government established monopoly in opium trade in Bengal.	1) 1780s
b) The British government exported 50000 chests of opium from Bengal annually.	2) 1820s
c) Opium production in British occupied territories declined rapidly.	3) 1870
d) Village headmen started paying peasants for producing opium in advance.	4) 1773

• A. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
• B. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
• C. a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4
• D. a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3

Answer 1

The correct option is B a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1

• The British East India Company established a monopoly on opium cultivation in the Indian province of Bengal, where they developed a method of growing opium poppies cheaply and abundantly so that they could sell it in china. It took place in 1773.
  
• In the year 1870 British government exported 50,000 chests of opium from Bengal annually.
  
• In 1820s opium production decreased rapidly in British occupied territories. Production increased in princely states and Rajasthan which are unoccupied territories because here, the local traders were offering much higher prices to peasants which made the peasants interested to grow opium.
  
• In 1780s village headmen started paying peasants for producing opium in advance so as to attract poor farmers to grow opium.