Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonialism and the Countryside

Question:

While many zamindars were facing a crisis at the end of the eighteenth century, a group of rich peasants was consolidating their position in the villages. In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal, we have a vivid description of this class of rich peasants known as jotedars.

Which of the following zoo was organized by Buchanan?

Options:

Marble Palace Zoo

Calcutta Alipore Zoo

Both options 1 and 2

Neither 1 nor 2.

Correct Answer:

Calcutta Alipore Zoo

Explanation:

Francis Buchanan, during his stay in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), organized a zoo that became the Calcutta Alipore Zoo.