Which one of the following pairs of a person in N.G. Ranga's speech a…

Which one of the following pairs of a person in N.G. Ranga's speech and how he exploited the villagers is correctly matched?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → Money-lender - got the villagers in his pocket with his money

Option (1) Merchant - lent money to get the ordinary villagers in his pocket — Incorrect. Merchants worked in the tribal areas. Getting villagers in the pocket with money was the money-lender's way.

Option (2) Zamindar - snatched tribal lands in the so-called free market — Incorrect. It was the merchants who went to tribal areas and snatched tribal lands in the so-called free market. The zamindar exploited villagers.

Option (3) Malguzar - turned the tribal people into hereditary bond-slaves — Incorrect. Bonds that made tribal people hereditary bond-slaves were the work of the merchants. The malguzar was among the village exploiters.

Option (4) Money-lender - got the villagers in his pocket with his money — Correct. Ranga said the money-lender, with his money, was able to get the villagers in his pocket.

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You go to the tribal areas. According to law, their own traditional law, their tribal law, their lands cannot be alienated. Yet our merchants go there, and in the so-called free market they are able to snatch their lands. Thus, even though the law goes against this snatching away of their lands, still the merchants are able to turn the tribal people into veritable slaves by various kinds of bonds, and make them hereditary bond-slaves. Let us go to the ordinary villagers. There goes the money-lender with his money and he is able to get the villagers in his pocket. There is the landlord himself, the zamindar, and the malguzar and there are the various other people who are able to exploit these poor villagers. …”

Which one of the following pairs of a person in N.G. Ranga's speech and how he exploited the villagers is correctly matched?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → Money-lender - got the villagers in his pocket with his money

Option (4) Money-lender - got the villagers in his pocket with his money — Correct. Ranga said the money-lender, with his money, was able to get the villagers in his pocket.