Francis Buchanan's survey of __________ district in North Bengal gave us a vivid description of the rich peasants known as jotedars.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Dinajpur
Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal gives a vivid description of the jotedars, rich peasants who by the early nineteenth century had acquired vast areas of land and controlled local trade and moneylending.
NCERT (2025-26): “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.…” |