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Peasants and Their Land

The term which Indo-Persian sources of the Mughal period most frequently used to denote a peasant was raiyat (plural, raiyay) or muzarian. In addition, we also encounter the terms Nisan or asami. Sources of the seventeenth-century refer to two kinds of peasants-khud-kashta and pahi-kashta. The former were residents of the village in which they held their lands. The latter were non-resident cultivators who belonged to some other village, but cultivated lands elsewhere on a contractual basis. People became pahi-kashta either out of choice -for example, when terms of revenue in a distant village were more favorable -or out of compulsion-for example, forced by economic distress after a famine. Seldom did the average peasant of northern India possess more than a pair of bullocks and two loughs: most possessed even less. In Gujarat, peasants possessing about six acres of land were considered to be affluent. In Bengal, on the other hand, five acres were the upper limit of an average peasant farm; 10 acres would make one a rich asami. Cultivation was based on the principal of individual ownership. Peasant lands were bought and sold in the same way as the lands of other property owners. This nineteenth-century description of peasant holdings in the Delhi-Agra region would apply equally to the seventeenth century: the cultivating peasants (asamis), who plough up the fields, make the limits of each field, for identification and demarcation, with borders of (raised) earth, brick and thorn so that thousands of such fields army be counted in a village.

How many acres would make one a rich asami?

10 Acres

The correct answer is Option (1) → 10 Acres

he passage states: “In Bengal, … five acres were the upper limit of an average peasant farm; 10 acres would make one a rich asami.” Hence, owning 10 acres was the benchmark for being considered rich.