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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 →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 →

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The Mughal village headman was called muqaddam or:

  1. Diwans
  2. Mandal
  3. Patwari
  4. Amins
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Correct answer: B. Mandal

1. The panchayat was headed by the muqaddam or mandal. 2. Elders chose him, the zamindar ratified. 3. The patwari kept the accounts. _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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Village records in Maharashtra show artisans could be as high as what share of households?

  1. 50 per cent
  2. 85 per cent
  3. 25 per cent
  4. 5 per cent
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Correct answer: C. 25 per cent

1. Artisans and peasants often overlapped. 2. Up to 25 per cent of households were artisans. 3. They were paid in harvest shares or land. _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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In rural communities with a shortage of wives, marriages often required payment of what to the bride's family?

  1. Dowry gift
  2. Peshkash
  3. Begar dues
  4. Bride-price
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Correct answer: D. Bride-price

1. High female mortality caused a shortage of wives. 2. Bride-price rather than dowry was paid. 3. Remarriage of widows was legitimate. _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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