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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 →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 →The Mughal emperor appointed the East India Company Diwan of Bengal on:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who authored the Ain-i Akbari, the chief source on Mughal agrarian arrangements?

  1. Nizamuddin
  2. Abu'l Fazl
  3. Badauni
  4. Bernier
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Correct answer: B. Abu'l Fazl

1. It recorded state arrangements for cultivation and revenue. 2. Akbar's court historian Abu'l Fazl wrote it. 3. It was completed in 1598. _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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Indo-Persian sources most often called the peasant by which term?

  1. Raiyat
  2. Diwans
  3. Amins
  4. Wazirs
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Correct answer: A. Raiyat

1. Plural riaya, also muzarian. 2. Raiyat was the usual term. 3. Kisan and asami also appear. _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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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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