Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Peasants, Zamindars and the State

Question:

Who among the following acted as a money-changer during the medieval India ?

Options:

Shroff

Patwari

Amin

Muqaddam

Correct Answer:

Shroff

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (1) → Shroff

MONEY IN THE VILLAGE: The seventeenth-century French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier found it remarkable that in “India a village must be very small indeed if it has not a moneychanger called a Shroff. (They) act as bankers to make remittances of money (and who) enhance the rupee as they please for paisa and the paisa for these (cowrie) shells”.