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Sort the termsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Mughal countryside bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A wooden image made by tribal specialists at Puri was recognised by the twelfth century as which form of Vishnu?Read the answer and worked solution →Who coined the terms great and little traditions to describe peasant cultures?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhakti aimed at an abstract god without attributes is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Alvars of Tamil Nadu were devotees of which deity?Read the answer and worked solution →Which anthology of the twelve Alvars was called the Tamil Veda?Read the answer and worked solution →The poems of Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar form which Shaiva collection?Read the answer and worked solution →Which woman Alvar saw herself as the beloved of Vishnu and whose songs are still sung?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chola ruler consecrated metal images of Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar around 945?Read the answer and worked solution →Basavanna, founder of the Virashaiva movement, was a minister at which court?Read the answer and worked solution →Our knowledge of the Virashaiva tradition comes from sayings in Kannada called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Arab general conquered Sind in 711?Read the answer and worked solution →Non-Muslims who paid jizya and received protection under Muslim rulers were called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Khojahs, an Ismaili branch, spread Quranic ideas through devotional poems called:Read the answer and worked solution →In a mosque the niche indicating the direction of Mecca is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The sufi hospice controlled by a shaikh was called a:Read the answer and worked solution →The Chishti order took its name from what?Read the answer and worked solution →Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, buried at Ajmer, died in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Sultan was the first to visit the Ajmer dargah of Muinuddin Chishti?Read the answer and worked solution →Amir Khusrau introduced the qaul, the opening hymn of qawwali. Whose disciple was he?Read the answer and worked solution →The Padmavat, a love story symbolising the soul's journey to God, was composed by:Read the answer and worked solution →Baba Guru Nanak was born in 1469 in which village?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Sikh guru compiled the Adi Granth Sahib?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Chishti saintsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Tamil saintsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the saint yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the devotional textsRead the answer and worked solution →Bhakti or SufiRead the answer and worked solution →

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Items
  1. Group
    Peasants
    Item
    Raiyat
  2. Group
    Peasants
    Item
    Khud-kashta
  3. Group
    Peasants
    Item
    Majur
  4. Group
    Zamindars
    Item
    Milkiyat
  5. Group
    Zamindars
    Item
    Qilacha
  6. Group
    Zamindars
    Item
    Sanad
  7. Group
    Forests
    Item
    Jangli
  8. Group
    Forests
    Item
    Peshkash
Groups
  1. Item
    Peasants
  2. Item
    Zamindars
  3. Item
    Forests
Instructions
Drop each term onto the group it belongs to.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 8, Peasants, Zamindars and the State: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    85
    Question
    Per cent of population in villages
  2. Answer
    50
    Question
    Rice varieties of Bengal
  3. Answer
    40
    Question
    Inches of rain marking rice zones
  4. Answer
    1598
    Question
    Year the Ain-i Akbari was completed
  5. Answer
    5
    Question
    Years fallow that makes land banjar
  6. Answer
    40
    Question
    Per cent forest cover estimated
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 8, Peasants, Zamindars and the State: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire._

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Mughal countryside bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Abu'l Fazl's record of 1598.
    Item
    Ain-i Akbari
  2. Clue
    Persian word for peasant.
    Item
    Raiyat
  3. Clue
    Perfect cash crops.
    Item
    Jins-i kamil
  4. Clue
    Village headman.
    Item
    Muqaddam
  5. Clue
    Zamindar's own property land.
    Item
    Milkiyat
  6. Clue
    Revenue assessed.
    Item
    Jama
  7. Clue
    Land fallow five years or more.
    Item
    Banjar
  8. Clue
    Estimating grain on the stalk.
    Item
    Kankut
  9. Clue
    Ahom soldier paid with land.
    Item
    Paik
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 8, Peasants, Zamindars and the State: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire._

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