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Which term did Indo-Persian sources of the Mughal period most often use for a peasant?Read the answer and worked solution →In seventeenth-century sources, what was a khud-kashta peasant?Read the answer and worked solution →Pahi-kashta cultivators in Mughal India were peasants whoRead the answer and worked solution →A farm of how many acres made a Bengal peasant a rich asami?Read the answer and worked solution →Who wrote about Indian villages being quickly abandoned and resettled in his memoirs, the Babur Nama?Read the answer and worked solution →In Lahore and Dipalpur, what animal turned the wheel that lifted water in pitchers from wells?Read the answer and worked solution →Which canal in the Punjab was repaired by the state during Shah Jahan's reign?Read the answer and worked solution →Which method of sowing was the most widespread among Mughal-era peasants?Read the answer and worked solution →Agriculture in Mughal India followed which two seasonal cycles?Read the answer and worked solution →The term do-fasla for Mughal farming refers to regions that producedRead the answer and worked solution →According to the Ain, how many varieties of rice alone did Bengal produce?Read the answer and worked solution →What does jins-i kamil, used in Mughal sources, literally mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair of crops was jins-i kamil par excellence?Read the answer and worked solution →Maize reached India in the seventeenth century by which route?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these was brought to India from the New World around the seventeenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Mughal emperor tried to ban tobacco smoking because of its addiction?Read the answer and worked solution →By about how much did India's population grow between 1600 and 1800, according to economic historians?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three elements made up the Mughal village community?Read the answer and worked solution →The village headman in Mughal sources was known asRead the answer and worked solution →Agricultural labourers and menials in Mughal villages were calledRead the answer and worked solution →Among Muslim communities, which menials were housed outside village boundaries?Read the answer and worked solution →The Ahirs, Gujars and Malis rose in the caste hierarchy mainly because ofRead the answer and worked solution →The village panchayat in Mughal India was best described asRead the answer and worked solution →Who assisted the village headman in preparing village accounts?Read the answer and worked solution →Panchayat funds were used for which of these purposes?Read the answer and worked solution →The most drastic punishment a village panchayat could inflict wasRead the answer and worked solution →Besides the village panchayat, each caste in a Mughal village had its ownRead the answer and worked solution →Villagers petitioning panchayats in Rajasthan and Maharashtra complained about the unpaid labour calledRead the answer and worked solution →If a compromise failed, what drastic resistance did aggrieved peasants often use?Read the answer and worked solution →Village surveys show artisans could form about what share of village households?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which term did Indo-Persian sources of the Mughal period most often use for a peasant?

  1. Amil
  2. Jagirdar
  3. Mansabdar
  4. Raiyat
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Correct answer: D. Raiyat

Mughal-era Persian records mostly called a cultivator a raiyat (plural riaya) or muzarian.

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In seventeenth-century sources, what was a khud-kashta peasant?

  1. A landless farm labourer
  2. A forest-dwelling hunter
  3. A contract tax collector
  4. A resident village cultivator
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Correct answer: D. A resident village cultivator

Khud-kashta peasants held land in the very village where they lived, unlike the non-resident pahi-kashta.

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Pahi-kashta cultivators in Mughal India were peasants who

  1. owned the headman's land
  2. paid no land revenue
  3. served only in armies
  4. farmed in another village
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Correct answer: D. farmed in another village

Pahi-kashta were non-resident cultivators who farmed lands elsewhere on a contractual basis, by choice or distress.

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