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AFCAT Modern Indian History — practice questions

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Place the countryside milestonesRead the answer and worked solution →Cover the rural Bengal termsRead the answer and worked solution →Catch what the forest gave the PahariasRead the answer and worked solution →Merge the two revenue systemsRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the hoe from the ploughRead the answer and worked solution →Match each campaign to its demandRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the false claim in each setRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the sources on GandhiRead the answer and worked solution →Order the salt satyagraha stepsRead the answer and worked solution →Fill the cotton boom blanksRead the answer and worked solution →

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Place the countryside milestones

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End
1880
Start
1760
Events
  1. Year
    1765
    Item
    Diwani of Bengal
  2. Year
    1813
    Item
    Fifth Report
  3. Year
    1832
    Item
    Damin-i-Koh mapped
  4. Year
    1855
    Item
    Santhal rebellion
  5. Year
    1861
    Item
    Cotton boom opens
  6. Year
    1875
    Item
    Deccan ryots rebel
Instructions
Drag each event card onto the year it belongs to on the line.
_Source: syllabus History, Colonialism and the Countryside_

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Cover the rural Bengal terms

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Paid a revenue fixed in perpetuity and kept what was left of the rent collected
    Item
    Zamindar
  2. Clue
    Rich village peasant of North Bengal who also controlled trade and moneylending
    Item
    Jotedar
  3. Clue
    British spelling of raiyat, the peasant who owed rent to the zamindar
    Item
    Ryot
  4. Clue
    Rented land from a ryot who leased it out instead of cultivating it
    Item
    Under-ryot
  5. Clue
    Officer of the zamindar who came round the village at rent collection time
    Item
    Amlah
  6. Clue
    Stick wielding strongman who kept outside buyers off an auctioned estate
    Item
    Lathyal
  7. Clue
    A purchase in a false name where the real beneficiary stays unnamed
    Item
    Benami
  8. Clue
    One who holds a taluq, a territorial unit, settled with as a zamindar in 1793
    Item
    Taluqdar
  9. Clue
    Acted as both moneylender and trader in the villages of the Bombay Deccan
    Item
    Sahukar
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it names. Three in a row wins the board.
_Source: syllabus History, Colonialism and the Countryside_

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Catch what the forest gave the Paharias

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Items
  1. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Mahua flowers
  2. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Plough farming
  3. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Silk cocoons
  4. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Charcoal wood
  5. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Damin-i-Koh
  6. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Millets
  7. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Pulses
  8. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Rice for market
  9. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Hunting
  10. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Shifting fields
Category
Paharia forest life
Instructions
Tap the arrow buttons to shift the basket under what the Paharias drew from the forest.
_Source: syllabus History, Colonialism and the Countryside_

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