Choose the incorrect sentence from the following:

The correct answer is Option (2) → The tenants lease their lands to landowners for cultivation

Option (1) The term agrarian structure is used to refer to the structure of distribution of landholding — True. The term agrarian structure is used to refer to the structure or distribution of landholding. Since land is the most important productive resource in rural areas, access to land shapes the rural class structure.

Option (2) The tenants lease their lands to landowners for cultivation — False. The roles are reversed. Tenants are cultivators who lease their land from landowners, and they have to pay a substantial rent to the landowner, often 50 to 75 per cent of the income from the crop.

Option (3) In raiyatwari system actual cultivators rather than the Zamindars were responsible for paying the tax — True. In the raiyatwari system the ‘actual cultivators’ rather than the zamindars paid the tax, and since the government dealt with them directly, the burden of taxation was less.

Option (4) Under the British, the Zamindars were given more control over land than they had before — True. The British ruled through the local zamindars and granted them property rights, so the zamindars were given more control over land than they had before.