HISTORY
SULTANS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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1, 4
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1, 2, 3
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3, 4
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1, 2
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Detailed explanation-1: -A variety of crops were grown, including food crops such as wheat, rice, and barley, and non-food cash crops such as cotton, indigo, and opium. Potato and maize were introduced from the Americas, much later with the colonization by the British. Hence, Option A is correct.
Detailed explanation-2: -Wheat and barley rose as irrigated land produced these crops.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the time period of Delhi sultanate, the main occupation of the people was agriculture. Most of the land during this period was cultivated. Wheat, rice, sugarcane, and cotton were the chief crops. During the sixteenth century, the production of potato and tobacco started on large scale.
Detailed explanation-4: -Major crops grown in India are rice, wheat, millets, pulses, tea, coffee, sugarcane, oil seeds, cotton and jute, etc. of canal irrigation and tubewells have made it possible to grow rice in areas of less rainfall such as Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh and parts of Rajasthan.