In the eighteenth century revenue records, the hill folk around Rajmahal hills were known as:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Paharias
Late-eighteenth-century revenue records show that the hill folk who lived around the Rajmahal hills were known as Paharias.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
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* A similar question.
NCERT (2026-27): “2.1 In the hills of Rajmahal … For that historians have to turn to other records. If we look at late-eighteenth-century revenue records, we learn that these hill folk were known as Paharias. They lived around the Rajmahal hills, subsisting on forest produce and practising shifting cultivation.…” |