The Permanent Settlement of Bengal, introduced in 1793, is associated with

Warren HastingsCorrect answerYour answerLord DalhousieCorrect answerYour answerLord WellesleyCorrect answerYour answerLord CornwallisCorrect answerYour answer

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Cornwallis introduced the Permanent Settlement, fixing the land revenue demand on zamindars in perpetuity.
Wellesley is remembered for the Subsidiary Alliance and Dalhousie for the Doctrine of Lapse.
Warren Hastings preceded Cornwallis and is associated with the earliest revenue experiments, not the settlement itself.

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Each of these Governors-General is remembered for one policy. Pairing the four names with the four policies is the whole question.

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