In Francis Buchanan's survey of Dinajpur district, the class of rich peasants is reported as:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Jotedars
Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal describes the class of rich peasants known as the jotedars, who held vast areas of land and controlled local trade and moneylending.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
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NCERT (2026-27): “1.4 The rise of the jotedars … While many zamindars were facing a crisis at the end of the eighteenth century, a group of rich peasants were consolidating their position in the villages. In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal we have a vivid description of this class of rich peasants known as jotedars. By the early nineteenth century, jotedars had acquired vast areas of land – sometimes as much as several thousand acres. They controlled local trade as well as moneylending, exercising immense power over the poorer cultivators of the region.…” |