Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Peasants, Zamindars and the State

Question:

Which of the following is a method of collection of revenue in kind, by the mansabdars in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries?

Options:

Polaj

Kankut

Banjar

Chachar

Correct Answer:

Kankut

Explanation:

All others are types of land.

Kankut- In the Hindi language, Kan signifies grain, and kut, estimates. If any doubt arise, the crops should be cut and estimated in three lots, the good, the middling, and the inferior, and the hesitation removed.