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Slice the booksRead the answer and worked solution →Which travellerRead the answer and worked solution →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 →

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Slice the books

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Does not match the category
  1. Rigveda
  2. Arthashas
  3. Ain
  4. Jataka
Matches the category
  1. Kitab Hind
  2. Rihla
  3. Travels
  4. Travelogue
Instructions
Slice only the travel books named.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 5, Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society._

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Which traveller

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Upper category
Battuta
Lower category
Bernier
Items
  1. Category
    Battuta
    Item
    Rihla
  2. Category
    Battuta
    Item
    Qazi
  3. Category
    Battuta
    Item
    Coconut
  4. Category
    Battuta
    Item
    Foot-post
  5. Category
    Bernier
    Item
    Doctor
  6. Category
    Bernier
    Item
    Louis XIV
  7. Category
    Bernier
    Item
    Dara
  8. Category
    Bernier
    Item
    No middle
Instructions
Send each fact to Ibn Battuta or to Bernier.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 5, Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society._

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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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