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Traveller to centuryRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Travellers bingoRead the answer and worked solution →In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries roughly what share of India's population lived in villages?Read the answer and worked solution →Who authored the Ain-i Akbari, the chief source on Mughal agrarian arrangements?Read the answer and worked solution →Indo-Persian sources most often called the peasant by which term?Read the answer and worked solution →Resident cultivators were khud-kashta. Non-resident cultivators from another village were called:Read the answer and worked solution →In Bengal, how many acres would make a peasant a rich asami?Read the answer and worked solution →Areas receiving how much annual rainfall were generally rice-producing zones?Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar and his nobles first came across tobacco in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The two seasonal crop cycles of Mughal agriculture were kharif and:Read the answer and worked solution →How many varieties of rice did Bengal produce, according to the Ain?Read the answer and worked solution →Cotton and sugarcane were the perfect crops. What Persian term did sources use for such cash crops?Read the answer and worked solution →Maize reached India in the seventeenth century via which route?Read the answer and worked solution →The Mughal village headman was called muqaddam or:Read the answer and worked solution →Village records in Maharashtra show artisans could be as high as what share of households?Read the answer and worked solution →In rural communities with a shortage of wives, marriages often required payment of what to the bride's family?Read the answer and worked solution →Which famous eighteenth-century Bengal zamindari had a woman at the helm?Read the answer and worked solution →Contemporary sources suggest what average forest cover for Mughal India?Read the answer and worked solution →In Assam the Ahom kings had which class of people bound to military service in return for land?Read the answer and worked solution →The extensive personal lands of zamindars were termed:Read the answer and worked solution →In Mughal revenue terms, jama was the amount assessed. What was hasil?Read the answer and worked solution →Under Akbar's classification, land left uncultivated for five years and more was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which method of revenue assessment involved estimating the standing crop?Read the answer and worked solution →The Ain-i Akbari was completed in which year, Akbar's forty-second regnal year?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the village officialsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the land typesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the cash cropsRead the answer and worked solution →Assessment or collectionRead the answer and worked solution →

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Traveller to century

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Items
  1. Group
    11th cent.
    Item
    Al-Biruni
  2. Group
    11th cent.
    Item
    Kitab-ul-Hind
  3. Group
    14th cent.
    Item
    Ibn Battuta
  4. Group
    14th cent.
    Item
    Rihla
  5. Group
    17th cent.
    Item
    Bernier
  6. Group
    17th cent.
    Item
    Tavernier
  7. Group
    17th cent.
    Item
    Manucci
Groups
  1. Item
    11th cent.
  2. Item
    14th cent.
  3. Item
    17th cent.
Instructions
Drop each traveller onto the century they visited.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 5, Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    973
    Question
    Year Al-Biruni was born
  2. Answer
    80
    Question
    Chapters in the Kitab-ul-Hind
  3. Answer
    1333
    Question
    Year Ibn Battuta reached Sind
  4. Answer
    28
    Question
    Gates of Delhi per Ibn Battuta
  5. Answer
    5
    Question
    Days for spy reports to reach the Sultan by post
  6. Answer
    1656
    Question
    Year Bernier arrived in India
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 5, Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society._

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Travellers bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Al-Biruni's birthplace.
    Item
    Khwarizm
  2. Clue
    Where Mahmud took Al-Biruni.
    Item
    Ghazni
  3. Clue
    Ibn Battuta's home town.
    Item
    Tangier
  4. Clue
    Post Tughlaq gave Ibn Battuta.
    Item
    Qazi
  5. Clue
    Singers' market of Daulatabad.
    Item
    Tarababad
  6. Clue
    The running foot-post.
    Item
    Dawa
  7. Clue
    Prince Bernier served.
    Item
    Dara Shukoh
  8. Clue
    Coined oriental despotism from Bernier.
    Item
    Montesquieu
  9. Clue
    Bernier's name for Mughal cities.
    Item
    Camp towns
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 5, Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society._

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