UGC NET History Practice Question

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Land left fallow for 1 to 2 years to regain its natural soil fertility was designated as:

Parauti ✓

Chachar

Banjar

Polaj

Parauti land was deliberately rested for one to two years to recover fertility before being cultivated again — the second tier in Akbar's four-tier land classification system (Polaj, Parauti, Chachar, Banjar), which assessed revenue according to how continuously a plot could be farmed.

Land uncultivated for 3 to 4 years was classified under Akbar's revenue system as:

Chachar ✓

Banjar

Parauti

Polaj

Chachar land, left fallow for three to four years, sat between Parauti (1-2 years fallow) and Banjar (5+ years uncultivated) in Akbar's four-tier classification — each tier carrying a correspondingly different, lower revenue assessment.

What was the Nasaq system of land assessment in the Mughal state?

Group assessment method based on previous calculations or rough estimates of village revenue ✓

Direct individual field-by-field measurement every season

Revenue auctioning to lowest bidder

Tax payment exclusively in grain yield

Nasaq was a simplified assessment method using historical/customary figures rather than fresh individual measurement each season — administratively lighter than Zabti (measurement-based) assessment, often used where detailed annual surveys weren't practical.

Under the Delhi Sultanate, the revenue officer responsible for maintaining local land records at the village level was the:

Patwari ✓

Muqaddam

Chaudhary

Khut

The Patwari maintained village-level land and revenue records — a hereditary local office that, notably, persisted in various forms well beyond the Sultanate and Mughal periods into the colonial and even modern Indian revenue bureaucracy.

The village headman in Northern India under the Sultanate and Mughal periods was commonly designated as:

Muqaddam or Khut ✓

Deshmukh

Patel

Kulkarni

Muqaddam (or Khut) was the standard North Indian term for the village headman under the Sultanate and Mughals — Deshmukh, Patel, and Kulkarni were the equivalent regional titles used in different parts of the Deccan and Western India.

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