Match List – I with List – II.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)

The correct answer is Option (2) - (A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)

The correct Match is:

Explanation:

In 1797 there was an auction in Burdwan (presentday Bardhaman). It was a big public event. A number of mahals (estates) held by the Raja of Burdwan were being sold. The Permanent Settlement had come into operation in 1793. The East India Company had fixed the revenue that each zamindar had to pay. The estates of those who failed to pay were to be auctioned to recover the revenue. Since the raja had accumulated huge arrears, his estates had been put up for auction.

The Pahariyas and Santhals settled around the Rajmahal hills in Bengal around the later half of the eighteenth century. Around the 1770s, the lower hills (of Rajmahal hills) were taken over by Santhal settlers, the Paharias receded deeper into the Rajmahal hills. If Paharia life was symbolised by the hoe, which they used for shifting cultivation, the settlers came to represent the power of the plough. The battle between the hoe and the plough was a long one.

Taluqdar literally means “one who holds a taluq” or a connection. Taluq came to refer to a territorial unit.