Which of the following statement is incorrect?
A. Taluqdar literally means “one who holds a taluq” or a connection which came to refer to a territorial unit.
B. Raja (literally king) was a term that was often used to designate powerful zamindars.
C. Ryots in Bengal always cultivate the land directly, but never leased it out to under-ryots.
D. In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal there is a vivid description of the class of rich peasants known as jotedars.
Answer:C
Which of the following statement is incorrect?
A. Taluqdar literally means “one who holds a taluq” or a connection which came to refer to a territorial unit. B. Raja (literally king) was a term that was often used to designate powerful zamindars. C. Ryots in Bengal always cultivate the land directly, but never leased it out to under-ryots. D. In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal there is a vivid description of the class of rich peasants known as jotedars.
Explanation: While many zamindars were facing a crisis at the end of the eighteenth century, a group of rich peasants were consolidating their position in the villages. In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal we have a vivid description of this class of rich peasants known as jotedars. By the early nineteenth century, jotedars had acquired vast areas of land – sometimes as much as several thousand acres.