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According to the 2001 Census, what share of India's people lived in rural areas?Read the answer and worked solution →Pongal, Bihu, Baisakhi and Ugadi are New Year festivals that celebrate the:Read the answer and worked solution →In some areas of India, what share of families own no land at all?Read the answer and worked solution →Women are usually excluded from land ownership because of the prevailing:Read the answer and worked solution →Daily-wage agricultural labourers who lack work for many days of the year suffer from:Read the answer and worked solution →Tenants often pay the landowner rent amounting to what share of the crop income?Read the answer and worked solution →M N Srinivas termed the one or two major landowning castes of each region:Read the answer and worked solution →The Lingayats and Vokkaligas are dominant landowning groups of:Read the answer and worked solution →The halpati system of hereditary bonded labour existed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The jeeta system of bonded labour is associated with:Read the answer and worked solution →Under which colonial land system were the actual cultivators, rather than zamindars, responsible for paying tax?Read the answer and worked solution →Of all land reform laws, the most effective was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Radical restructuring giving land rights to tenants took place in Kerala and:Read the answer and worked solution →Landowners escaped Land Ceiling Acts by dividing land among relatives and servants in so-called:Read the answer and worked solution →Green Revolution programmes were introduced only in areas with:Read the answer and worked solution →Which regions received the first wave of the Green Revolution?Read the answer and worked solution →In Green Revolution areas, the main beneficiaries of the new technology were:Read the answer and worked solution →Agriculturists who produce mainly for themselves and not the market practise:Read the answer and worked solution →The ultimate outcome of the Green Revolution, with the rich richer and poor poorer, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Jan Breman described the changed landlord-labourer relationship as a shift from patronage to:Read the answer and worked solution →Seasonal migrant agricultural workers were termed footloose labour by:Read the answer and worked solution →Kerala's rural transformation was linked to an external economy, primarily the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the land reformsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Green Revolution wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the rural regionsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the agrarian wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Colonial or post 1947Read the answer and worked solution →Sort the Green RevolutionRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Rural society bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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According to the 2001 Census, what share of India's people lived in rural areas?

  1. 67 per cent
  2. 50 per cent
  3. 80 per cent
  4. 33 per cent
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Correct answer: A. 67 per cent

1. Most make their living from agriculture. 2. About 67 per cent were rural in 2001. 3. Land is the most important form of property. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 4, Change and Development in Rural Society._

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Pongal, Bihu, Baisakhi and Ugadi are New Year festivals that celebrate the:

  1. Full moon festival
  2. Main harvest season
  3. Arrival of monsoon
  4. Winter solstice day
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Correct answer: B. Main harvest season

1. Culture and agriculture are closely bound. 2. They mark the main harvest. 3. Each heralds a new agricultural season. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 4, Change and Development in Rural Society._

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In some areas of India, what share of families own no land at all?

  1. 40 to 50 per cent
  2. 10 to 15 per cent
  3. 70 to 80 per cent
  4. 5 to 10 per cent
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Correct answer: A. 40 to 50 per cent

1. Landholding is highly unequal. 2. Up to 40 to 50 per cent are landless in some areas. 3. They depend on agricultural labour. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 4, Change and Development in Rural Society._

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