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Between the 1850s and 1880s, the right to collect grazing tax was:

AAuctioned to contractors
BWaived for nomads
CGiven to village headmen
DPaid to zamindars
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Auctioned to contractors
1. Contractors squeezed pastoralists for profit. 2. The right was auctioned out. 3. By the 1880s the government collected it directly with passes. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 5, Pastoralists in the Modern World._
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