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

AZamindars
BPahi-kashta
CKhud-kashta
DMuqaddam
Answer & Solution
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: NCERT Class 12 Themes in Indian History Part II, Theme 8, Peasants, Zamindars and the State: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire._
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