In late eighteenth-century revenue records, the hill folks living around Rajmahal hills were known as ____________.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Paharias
In late eighteenth-century revenue records the hill folk of this area are called Paharias. They lived around the Rajmahal hills, living on forest produce and practising shifting cultivation: they cleared patches of forest by burning the undergrowth and grew pulses and millets on the land enriched by the ash.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
| 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
| 24-05 S2 | – | – | 19-06 S2* | – |
* A similar question.
NCERT (2025-26): “2.1 In the hills of Rajmahal … If we look at late-eighteenth-century revenue records, we learn that these hill folk were known as Paharias. They lived around the Rajmahal hills, subsisting on forest produce and practising shifting cultivation. They cleared patches of forest by cutting bushes and burning the undergrowth. On these patches, enriched by the potash from the ash, the Paharias grew a variety of pulses and millets for consumption.…” |