INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Commercial crops like cotton, jute, groundnuts, oilseeds, sugarcane, tobacco, etc., sold for higher prices than food grains. Instead of food and sustenance crops, peasants began growing cash crops in hopes of clearing their debts and paying their taxes.

Detailed explanation-2: -A peasant is a man or woman of the land, who has a direct and special relationship with the land and nature through the production of food and/or other agricultural products. Peasants work the land themselves, rely[ing] above all on family labour and other small‐scale forms of organizing labour.