Jajmani system stood for?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Small daily allowance and diet money in Bengal for artisans
Eighteenth-century records show zamindars in Bengal paying blacksmiths, carpenters and even goldsmiths “a small daily allowance and diet money”, a system later described as the jajmani system.
NCERT (2026-27): “2.3 Village artisans … For example, eighteenth-century records tell us of zamindars in Bengal who remunerated blacksmiths, carpenters, even goldsmiths for their work by paying them ‘a small daily allowance and diet money’. This later came to be described as the jajmani system, though the term was not in vogue in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.…” |