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| Read the following passage and answer the below question: While dominant landowning groups are usually middle or high ranked castes, most of the marginal farmers and landless belong to lower caste groups. In official classification they belong to the Scheduled Castes or Tribes (SC/ STs) or Other Backward Classes (OBCs). In many regions of India, the former Untouchable or dalit castes were not allowed to own land and they provided most of the agricultural labour for the dominant landowning groups. This also created a labour force that allowed the landowners to cultivate the land intensively and get higher returns. |
| Which one of the following is an example of dominant landowning group? |
Komati in Tamil Nadu Jats in Uttar Pradesh Mahar in Andhra Pradesh All of the above |
| Jats in Uttar Pradesh |
| Examples of dominant landowning groups are the Jats and Rajputs of U.P., the Vokkaligas and Lingayats in Karnataka, Kammas and Reddis in Andhra Pradesh, and Jat Sikhs in Punjab. |
