Permanent Settlement of Bengal

Target entity: Permanent Settlement of Bengal
Context triple: [Bengal Presidency, significantEvent, Permanent Settlement of Bengal]

• A. Doctrine of Lapse
  The Doctrine of Lapse was a controversial annexation policy used by the British East India Company in 19th-century India, allowing it to seize princely states without a direct male heir and significantly fueling resentment that led to the 1857 rebellion.
• B. British conquest of Bengal
  The British conquest of Bengal was the mid-18th-century process by which the British East India Company gained political and economic control over Bengal, laying the foundation for British colonial rule in India.
• C. Partition of Bengal 1905
  The Partition of Bengal in 1905 was a controversial division of the Bengal province by the British colonial government that sparked widespread nationalist protest and helped galvanize the Indian independence movement.
• D. Indian Councils Act 1861
  The Indian Councils Act 1861 was a British law that restructured the governance of British India by reintroducing and expanding legislative councils, allowing limited Indian participation in lawmaking.
• E. India Act 1784
  The India Act 1784 was a British law that restructured the governance of the East India Company and placed its political administration in India under closer control of the British government.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Permanent Settlement of Bengal
Target entity description: The Permanent Settlement of Bengal was a late 18th-century land revenue system introduced by the British that fixed land taxes permanently and created a class of hereditary zamindar landlords, profoundly shaping Bengal’s agrarian and social structure.

• A. Doctrine of Lapse
  The Doctrine of Lapse was a controversial annexation policy used by the British East India Company in 19th-century India, allowing it to seize princely states without a direct male heir and significantly fueling resentment that led to the 1857 rebellion.
• B. British conquest of Bengal
  The British conquest of Bengal was the mid-18th-century process by which the British East India Company gained political and economic control over Bengal, laying the foundation for British colonial rule in India.
• C. Partition of Bengal 1905
  The Partition of Bengal in 1905 was a controversial division of the Bengal province by the British colonial government that sparked widespread nationalist protest and helped galvanize the Indian independence movement.
• D. Indian Councils Act 1861
  The Indian Councils Act 1861 was a British law that restructured the governance of British India by reintroducing and expanding legislative councils, allowing limited Indian participation in lawmaking.
• E. India Act 1784
  The India Act 1784 was a British law that restructured the governance of the East India Company and placed its political administration in India under closer control of the British government.
• F. None of above. chosen