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UPSC CDS Indian History — practice questions — page 12

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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 →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 →

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Resident cultivators were khud-kashta. Non-resident cultivators from another village were called:

  1. Zamindars
  2. Pahi-kashta
  3. Khud-kashta
  4. Muqaddam
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Correct answer: B. Pahi-kashta

1. Khud-kashta lived where they held land. 2. Pahi-kashta farmed elsewhere on contract. 3. Some moved by choice, some after famine. _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 Bengal, how many acres would make a peasant a rich asami?

  1. 6 acres
  2. 100 acres
  3. 10 acres
  4. 5 acres
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Correct answer: C. 10 acres

1. Five acres was the average upper limit in Bengal. 2. Ten acres made one a rich asami. 3. In Gujarat six acres meant affluence. _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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Areas receiving how much annual rainfall were generally rice-producing zones?

  1. 10 inches or more
  2. 100 inches or more
  3. 20 inches or less
  4. 40 inches or more
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Correct answer: D. 40 inches or more

1. Rice, wheat and millets followed a rainfall scale. 2. Forty inches or more meant rice. 3. Monsoons were the backbone of farming. _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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