A Company surveyor admired the rice valleys of a hill village and wished the woods cleared; unfit land, he wrote, might rear certain trees. Identify the hills and the trees.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Lower Rajmahal hills; palmyra and mahua
Option (1) Lower Rajmahal hills; palmyra and mahua — Correct. The surveyor is Buchanan, in a village of the lower Rajmahal hills. For land unfit for cultivation he proposed palmyra and mahua.
Option (2) Lower Rajmahal hills; Asan and Palas — Incorrect. The hills are right, but Asan and Palas were meant to replace the woods, for Tassar silk worms and lac. His trees for unfit land were different.
Option (3) Hills of the Bombay Deccan; palmyra and mahua — Incorrect. Palmyra and mahua are right, but the village was in the Rajmahal hills of the east. The Bombay Deccan in western India comes later in the chapter, with a peasant revolt.
Option (4) Hills of the Bombay Deccan; Asan and Palas — Incorrect. Both parts are wrong: Asan and Palas were for the woods, and the village lay in the Rajmahal hills.
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