Correct answer: (c) 2 and 3 only
Explanation
- A
1 only
(a) 1 only. Cornwallis is identified with Permanent Settlement (1793) in Bengal, not Ryotwari. 1 only is not the key.
- B
1 and 3 only
(b) 1 and 3 only. Pairing Cornwallis with Munro mixes zamindari with ryotwari. It is not the key.
- C
2 and 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only. Captain Alexander Read began Ryotwari in the Baramahal after the Third Mysore War; Thomas Munro systematised it in Madras. Cornwallis is out. This is the official key.
- D
1, 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3. Including Cornwallis is the error. All three is not the key.
Summary. Official key is (c) 2 and 3 only. Ryotwari settled land revenue with the cultivator (ryot), not a zamindar. Read introduced it in the Baramahal (Salem) tracts; Munro extended and defended it as Madras Governor. Cornwallis’s Permanent Settlement is a different Bengal–Bihar experiment. Mahalwari in the North-West is the third British revenue family, not asked here.
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