The Santhals were given land and persuaded to settle in the foothills of Rajmahal. By 1832 a large area was declared to be land of the Santhals. It was demarcated as-
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Damin-i-Koh
From the 1780s the Santhals began to come to the Rajmahal hills, and the British persuaded them to settle there and clear the forest for settled farming. In 1832 a large area was marked out as the land of the Santhals and its boundary fixed with pillars. This area was called the Damin-i-Koh, a Persian name meaning the ‘skirts of the hills’. Later the heavy revenue and the moneylenders and traders, whom the Santhals called dikus (outsiders), led to the Santhal rebellion of 1855–56.