Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Peasants, Zamindars and the State

Question:

What was the term used for forest dwellers in contemporary texts?

Options:

Asabhya

Jangli

Abhadra

None of the above

Correct Answer:

Jangli

Explanation:

Forest dwellers were termed jangli in contemporary texts. Being jangli, however, did not mean an absence of “civilization”, as popular usage of the term today seems to connote.