Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Peasants, Zamindars and the State

Question:

Which Mughal Chronicle describes the irrigation devices in Northern India?

Options:

Akbar Nama

Babur Nama

Ain-i Akbari

Humayun Nama

Correct Answer:

Babur Nama

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Babur Nama

" This is an excerpt from the Babur Nama that describes the irrigation devices the emperor observed in northern India: The greater part of Hindustan country is situated on level land. Many though its towns and cultivated lands are, it nowhere has running waters … For … water is not at all a necessity in cultivating crops and orchards. Autumn crops grow by the downpour of the rains themselves; and strange it is that spring crops grow even when no rains fall. (However) to young trees water is made to flow by means of buckets or wheels "