A teacher in a village school in Uttar Pradesh shows her class a drawing of a well with a wooden fork at its edge and a rope running over it to a large container. She tells them that a sixteenth-century emperor saw farmers use such a lift in this region and wrote about it in his memoirs. She asks the class to work out from his account how the lift was worked.
How many persons were needed to work this bucket lift, by the emperor's account?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Two
Babur wrote that one person must drive the bullock and another empty the bucket, so the lift needed two people.
NCERT (2026-27): “1.3 Irrigation and technology … “between the forks, tie a rope to a large bucket, put the rope over a roller, and tie its other end to the bullock. One person must drive the bullock, another empty the bucket.” |