Titles People Held
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Q. Who were the tenant cultivators?
- Peasants who cultivated lands which they rented from the zamindars.
- Peasants who cultivated on their lands.
- Zamindars who cultivated on their lands.
- Zamindars who cultivated on lands which they rented from the peasants.
Q.
Who was known as grama bhojaka?
Educated persons
Illiterate persons
Village headman
Ordinary people of village
Q. Match the following in terms of the titles people held.
- Grama Bhojaka
- Dasa Karmakara
- Ploughmen
Q. Identify the types of settlements in which people generally live in today.
- Villages
- Towns
- Caves
- Cities
Q. A present-day village headman functions as the leader of which important institution?
- Village Panchayat
- High Court
- Supreme Court
- Municipal Corporation
Q. In what ways did the zamindars take away the produce of the peasants?
- Directly, as the land belonged to them.
- Indirectly, by imposing vetti peasants were unable to tend to their produce.
- Directly, though revenue and share for renting the land.
- Indirectly, by demanding their produce free of cost despite owning vast lands themselves.
Q. The village headman was responsible for
- collecting food
- collecting taxes
- collecting grains
- collecting money
Q. A village headman was someone who had lot of
- money and food
- money
- land
- land and money
Q. Who were benefited by the new land laws, imposed by the British in the nineteenth century?
- Farmers
- Mill workers
- Money lenders
- Zamindars
Q. Around 2, 500 years ago, different kinds of people lived in the villages in the northern and southern parts of the Indian subcontinent. Identify the incorrectly matched pair.
- Large landowners: Vellalar
- Village headman: Grama bhojaka
- Ordinary ploughmen: Uzhavar
- Landless labourers: Grihapatis
Q. While the Panch only meet once in a while the headman functions on a daily basis.
- True
- False
Q. "Vellalur" is the term used to refer to a ploughman.
- True
- False
