Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Peasants, Zamindars and the State

Question:

Match the following terms in List I correctly with their meanings in List II:

List I- Term

List- II Meaning

(a) Raiyat

(i) Sugarcane

(b) Jins-i kamil

(ii) Scavengers

(c) Mallahzadas

(iii) Indo-Persian term for peasants.

(d) Halalkhoran

(iv) Sons of boatmen



Options:

(a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- ii, (d) iv

(a)- i, (b)- iii, (c)- iv, (d) ii

(a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) ii

(a)- iii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d) ii

Correct Answer:

(a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) ii

Explanation:

In the sixteenth-seventeenth century, Raiyat was an Indo-Persian term for peasants.

Jins-i kamil (literally, perfect crops), Crops such as cotton and sugarcane were called Jins-i kamil.

In Muslim communities, men like the halalkhoran (scavengers) were housed outside the village's boundaries; similarly, the mallahzadas (literally, sons of boatmen) in Bihar were comparable to slaves.