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The hill folk of the Rajmahal hills who practised shifting cultivation were the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Collector of Bhagalpur proposed a policy of pacification of the Paharias in the 1780s?Read the answer and worked solution →The area demarcated in 1832 as the land of the Santhals was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Santhal villages in Damin-i-Koh grew from 40 in 1838 to how many by 1851?Read the answer and worked solution →Santhals called the moneylenders who took over their land by which name?Read the answer and worked solution →After the Santhal Revolt of 1855-56, how large an area became the Santhal Pargana?Read the answer and worked solution →The Deccan revolt of 1875 began in which large village of Poona district?Read the answer and worked solution →The revenue system of the Bombay Deccan, settled directly with the cultivator, was called:Read the answer and worked solution →A famine devastated the Deccan in which years, killing a third of the cattle?Read the answer and worked solution →The Cotton Supply Association was founded in Britain in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →By 1862, what share of Britain's cotton imports came from India?Read the answer and worked solution →The Limitation Law of 1859 made loan bonds between moneylenders and ryots valid for how long?Read the answer and worked solution →The Deccan Riots Commission presented its report to the British Parliament in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the rural groupsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Rajmahal wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Bengali termsRead the answer and worked solution →Bengal or DeccanRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Countryside bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Which imperial officer policed and ran the internal affairs of a Mughal town?Read the answer and worked solution →The Portuguese set up base at Panaji in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →From which year did all-India decennial censuses become a regular feature?Read the answer and worked solution →The Survey of India was established in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1900 and 1940 India's urban population rose from about 10 per cent to about what share?Read the answer and worked solution →Railways were introduced in India in which year, shifting activity away from old river towns?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two towns are named as the only proper industrial cities of colonial India?Read the answer and worked solution →Simla was founded during which war?Read the answer and worked solution →Darjeeling was wrested from the rulers of which kingdom in 1835?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The hill folk of the Rajmahal hills who practised shifting cultivation were the:

  1. Santhals
  2. Jotedars
  3. Bhuiyas
  4. Paharias
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Correct answer: D. Paharias

1. They grew pulses and millets on burnt patches. 2. The Paharias lived around the Rajmahal hills. 3. Their life was tied to the forest. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 10, Colonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives._

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Which Collector of Bhagalpur proposed a policy of pacification of the Paharias in the 1780s?

  1. Augustus Cleveland
  2. Francis Buchanan
  3. Charles Cornwallis
  4. William Hodges
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Correct answer: A. Augustus Cleveland

1. The 1770s saw a policy of extermination. 2. Cleveland offered chiefs an annual allowance. 3. Many chiefs refused it. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 10, Colonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives._

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The area demarcated in 1832 as the land of the Santhals was called:

  1. Rajmahal hills
  2. Damin-i-Koh
  3. Jangal Mahal
  4. Santhal Pargana
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Correct answer: B. Damin-i-Koh

1. Santhals were settled in the Rajmahal foothills. 2. Damin-i-Koh was mapped and marked with pillars. 3. One-tenth had to be cultivated in ten years. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part III, Theme 10, Colonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives._

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