Which of the following are correct about Deccan riots?
A. The movement began at Supa, a village in Poona.
B. Supa was an inaccessible forest area with no markets.
C. On 12 May 1875, ryots attacked the shopkeepers.
D. Ryots set fire to the houses of British and protected the houses of Sahukars and moneylenders.
E. Account books were not destroyed by the ryots rather preserved by them.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A and C only
A. The movement began at Supa, a village in Poona. Correct. The revolt of 1875 began at Supa, a large village in Poona (present-day Pune) district.
B. Supa was an inaccessible forest area with no markets. Incorrect. Supa was a market centre where many shopkeepers and moneylenders lived.
C. On 12 May 1875, ryots attacked the shopkeepers. Correct. On that day ryots from the surrounding rural areas gathered and attacked the shopkeepers, demanding their bahi khatas (account books) and debt bonds.
D. Ryots set fire to the houses of British and protected the houses of Sahukars and moneylenders. Incorrect. The ryots turned against the sahukars: they looted grain shops and in some cases set fire to the houses of sahukars.
E. Account books were not destroyed by the ryots rather preserved by them. Incorrect. The ryots burnt the khatas; everywhere the revolt spread, account books were burnt and debt bonds destroyed.
NCERT (2026-27): “3.1 Account books are burnt … The movement began at Supa, a large village in Poona (present-day Pune) district. It was a market centre where many shopkeepers and moneylenders lived. On 12 May 1875, ryots from surrounding rural areas gathered and attacked the shopkeepers, demanding their bahi khatas (account books) and debt bonds. They burnt the khatas, looted grain shops, and in some cases set fire to the houses of sahukars. From Poona the revolt spread to Ahmednagar. Then over the next two months it spread even further, over an area of 6,500 square km. More than thirty villages were affected. Everywhere the pattern was the same: sahukars were attacked, account books burnt and debt bonds destroyed.…” |