WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A taluqdar is a powerful landowner in northern India. In Bengal, however, a taluqdar is second only to a zamindar in terms of land control and social standing. During the Mughal dynasty’s emperorship, the taluqdar was a lower-ranking official than the Zamindar, who was superior to the taluqdar.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the auction, many of the purchasers turned out to be servants and agents of the raja who had bought the lands on behalf of their master. And over 95 per cent of the sale at the auction was fictitious.

Detailed explanation-3: -After two decades of debate on the question, the Company finally introduced the Permanent Settlement in 1793. By the terms of the settlement, the rajas and taluqdars were recognised as zamindars. They were asked to collect rent from the peasants and pay revenue to the Company.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: Buchanan reached the Rajmahal Hills in the early nineteenth century. He found these hills as impenetrable. They posed a great risk and danger to the travellers like him.

Detailed explanation-5: -How the expansion of settled agriculture affected relations between hill folk and settled cultivators? Ans. (i)As settled agriculture expanded, the area under forests and pastures contracted. (ii)This sharpened the conflict between hill folk and settled cultivators.