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In Maharashtra, land given to village artisans became their hereditary holding calledRead the answer and worked solution →Nineteenth-century British officials viewed the Indian village as aRead the answer and worked solution →Which French traveller remarked that almost every Indian village had a money-changer called a Shroff?Read the answer and worked solution →In Mughal agriculture, which tasks were mainly done by women?Read the answer and worked solution →Many rural and artisan communities required which payment at marriage because wives were scarce?Read the answer and worked solution →The famous eighteenth-century Rajshahi zamindari in Bengal was headed byRead the answer and worked solution →What share of the subcontinent did informed estimates suggest forests covered on average in this period?Read the answer and worked solution →In Mughal texts, a forest dweller was termedRead the answer and worked solution →The Mughal state saw forests as a mawas, meaningRead the answer and worked solution →The peshkash levied on forest people often included a supply ofRead the answer and worked solution →Which forest product became a major item of overseas export in the seventeenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →In Assam, the Ahom kings had people obliged to give military service for land, calledRead the answer and worked solution →Which tribe in the Punjab was engaged in overland trade between India and Afghanistan?Read the answer and worked solution →Who are credited with a major role in spreading Islam among new agricultural communities in forested regions?Read the answer and worked solution →Zamindars' personal lands, which they could sell or mortgage freely, were calledRead the answer and worked solution →Most zamindars kept fortresses known asRead the answer and worked solution →Zamindars earned their elevated status partly by performing which services for the state?Read the answer and worked solution →The Ain gives the combined cavalry of Mughal zamindars as aboutRead the answer and worked solution →The economic mainstay of the Mughal Empire wasRead the answer and worked solution →Which official's office (daftar) supervised the fiscal system of the Mughal Empire?Read the answer and worked solution →

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In Maharashtra, land given to village artisans became their hereditary holding called

  1. jagir grant
  2. miras or watan
  3. milkiyat land
  4. suyurghal grant
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Correct answer: B. miras or watan

Such lands, allotted by the panchayat, became the artisans' hereditary miras or watan.

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Nineteenth-century British officials viewed the Indian village as a

  1. feudal estate
  2. military camp
  3. little republic
  4. trading colony
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Correct answer: C. little republic

They saw fraternal partners sharing resources, though real villages had deep inequalities of caste and gender.

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Which French traveller remarked that almost every Indian village had a money-changer called a Shroff?

  1. Bernier
  2. Tavernier
  3. Careri
  4. Manucci
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Correct answer: B. Tavernier

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier noted that even small villages had a shroff acting as banker.

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