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  • Question 1
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    Vegetables like tomatoes, potatoes and chillies reached India from the

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    The New World is a term used for the non-Afro-Eurasian parts of the Earth, specifically the Americas. During the seventeenth century, fruits like pineapple and papaya also reached India.

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    In 18th century, women zamindars were known in

    Solution

    Among the landed gentry, women had the right to inherit property. Records show that they freely participated in land dealings that used to take place in the markets. In 18th century, one of the most famous zamindaris was of Rajshahis, and it was headed by a woman.

  • Question 3
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    In the third battle of Panipat, the Marathas were defeated by

    Solution

    The third battle of Panipat took place in 1761 AD. Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas in this battle.

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    The term which Indo-Persian sources of the Mughal period frequently used to denote a peasant was

    Solution

    Riaya  was plural for the term 'raiyat 'or 'muzarian '. During the seventeenth century, there were two kinds of peasants – khud-kashta  and  pahi-kashta  in the Mughal Empire.

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    The third book of the Ain-i Akbari, mulk-abadi, deals with the

    Solution

    The book of  mulk-abadi  provides rich quantitative information on revenue rates and included the “Account of the Twelve Provinces ”. This section has a detailed statistical information on the geographic, topographic and economic profile of all  subas  and their administrative and fiscal divisions (sarkars, parganas  and  mahals), total measured area and assessed revenue (jama).

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    In Bihar, the low caste group which was comapared to slaves was

    Solution

    Low-caste groups comprised a large section of the village population. They had the least resources and were constrained by their position in the caste hierarchy, much like the Dalits of modern India. The  Mallahzadas  (literally, sons of boatmen) in Bihar were comparable  to slaves.

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    The basic unit of agricultural society during the Mughal period was the

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    The basic unit of agricultural society was the village. The village was inhabited by peasants who performed the manifold seasonal tasks that made up agricultural production throughout the year –tilling the soil, sowing seeds, harvesting the crop when it was ripe. They also produced agro-based goods like sugar and oil.

  • Question 8
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    Akbar ’s “auspicious sayings ”were included in

    Solution

    Akbar ’s “auspicious sayings ”were included in the fourth and fifth books of  Ain. Along with the sayings of Akbar, they give an account of the ancestry and biography of the author.

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    Most regions, under the Mughals, produced a minimum of

    Solution

    Agriculture was organised around two major seasonal cycles, the  kharif  (autumn) and the  rabi  (spring). Most regions, except those terrains that were the most arid or inhospitable, produced a minimum of two crops a year (do-fasla).

  • Question 10
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    The term used by Indo-Persian sources to reffer to peasants was

    Solution

    The Indo-Persian sources of the Mughal period used terms like  Raiyat  or  Muzarian  to denote peasants. In addition, the terms  Kisan  or  asami  were also used.

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