Match List-I with List-II.List-IList-II(A) Women, including widows, s…

Match List-I with List-II.

List-I	List-II
(A) Women, including widows, selling inherited property in the rural land market	(I) Bengal
(B) Women zamindars known in the eighteenth century	(II) Western India
(C) Petitions sent by women to the village panchayat	(III) Punjab
(D) Migrant women from neighbouring villages working at a building site, shown in a painting	(IV) Fatehpur Sikri

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Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

List-I	List-II	Reason
(A) Women, including widows, selling inherited property in the rural land market	(III) Punjab	Records from the Punjab show women, widows too, selling land they had inherited.
(B) Women zamindars known in the eighteenth century	(I) Bengal	Bengal had women zamindars in the eighteenth century; Rajshahi had a woman at its head.
(C) Petitions sent by women to the village panchayat	(II) Western India	Documents from Western India (Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra) record women's petitions to the panchayat.
(D) Migrant women from neighbouring villages working at a building site, shown in a painting	(IV) Fatehpur Sikri	A painting of the construction of Fatehpur Sikri shows women crushing stones and carrying loads; migrant women from nearby villages worked at such sites.

NCERT (2026-27): “3. Women in Agrarian Society …
Documents from Western India – Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra – record petitions sent by women to the village panchayat, seeking redress and justice. Wives protested against the infidelity of their husbands or the neglect of the wife and children by the male head of the household, the grihasthi. While male infidelity was not always punished, the state and “superior” caste groups did intervene when it came to ensuring that the family was adequately provided for. In most cases when women petitioned to the panchayat, their names were excluded from the record: the petitioner was referred to as the mother, sister or wife of the male head of the household.”

“Amongst the landed gentry, women had the right to inherit property. Instances from the Punjab show that women, including widows, actively participated in the rural land market as sellers of property inherited by them. Hindu and Muslim women inherited zamindaris which they were free to sell or mortgage. Women zamindars were known in eighteenth-century Bengal. In fact, one of the biggest and most famous of the eighteenth-century zamindaris, that of Rajshahi, had a woman at the helm.”

“Fig. 8.8 a The construction of Fatehpur Sikri – women crushing stones Fig. 8.8 b Women carrying loads”

“villages often worked at such construction sites.”