Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Peasants, Zamindars and the State

Question:

Which of the following statement is incorrect about Tobacco?

a- It arrived first in the Deccan.
b- The Ain mentions tobacco in the lists of crops produced in Northern India.
c- Akbar and his nobles came across tobacco for the first time in 1604.
d- Jahangir banned tobacco due to its addiction.
e- By the end of the seventeenth century, tobacco was completely banned and was found nowhere in India. 

Options:

a and e

b and d

b and e

a and d

Correct Answer:

b and e

Explanation:

Few facts about Tobacco in India- 

It arrived first in the Deccan.
The Ain does not mention tobacco in the lists of crops in Northern India.
Akbar and his nobles came across tobacco for the first time in 1604.
Jahangir banned tobacco due to its addiction.
By the end of the seventeenth century, tobacco became a major article of consumption, cultivation, and trade all over India.