Indian Economy Under Mughuls (1526-1856)

Higher Level Questions

1. What was the first English ship that came to India
A. May Flower (b) Red Dragon
c. Bengal (d) Elizabeth
2. In his entire empire of Sher Sha, goods paid customs duty only at two places:
A. Sikrigali, and At Indus
b. Jaunpur and Broach
C. Kanuaj and Ahmadabad
D. Sikrigali, and Broach
3. Which of the following wrongly matched with regard to 1700 sarais or rest
houses built by Shersha in his empire along the trade routes:
A. Qasba Town developed around sarai
B. Dak chouki Postal system used at sarai
C. Sahana An officer appointed to look after security and safety of traders
and travelers in sarais
D. None of the above
. Which revenue system among the following is also known as the bandobast

system?
(a) Zabti (b) Dabsala
(c Nasaq (d) Kankut
During the reign of which Great Mughal was tobacco introduced in India?

(a) Aurangazeb (b).,Jahangir

(c) Akbar (d) Shah jahan
. Who among the following Englishmen was given the title of Khan by

jahangir?
(a) Thomas Roe (b) Ralph Fitch
(c) Hawkins (d) Newbery
What was duaspa-sihaspa and who introduced it?

(a ) A revenue system introduced by Akbar

b) A decorative method introduced by Shah Jahan
(c) A special rank having higher sawar than zat introduced by Aurangazeb
(d A sub-rank of sawar introduced by jahangir.
8. Who among the following Mughal ministers was the Paymaster-General as
well?
(a) Diwan (b) Mir Bakshi
(c) Kban-i-Sarnan (d) Vakil
. What was a tanab in the Mughal period?

(a) A revenue circle of the smallest size

(b) A uniform medium size unit of measurement
c A measuring instrument made of bamboo sticks joined by iron rings

d) A register containing information about cultivators, their lands and assessed

revenue
. Uparis of Maharashtra were same as which of the following of north India?

(a) Muzariams (b) Pabikashta

(c) Khuakashta (d) Gaveti
. Who among the following category of rural elite do not get nankar, though

they get malikana, of the surplus produce of peasants?

a) Autonomous zamindars b) Revenue-farmers
c) intermediary zamindars d) Primary Zamindars
2. Which of the following revenue systems were Akbars own innovations?

(i) Batai (ii) Kankut (iii)Nasaq

(iv) Zabti v) Dabsala
Select the answer from the codes below:
(a i and iv (b) ii and v
(c iii and iv (d) iv and v
Which of the following were the main items of export of India during the

Mughal period?
 Cotton textiles 2. Indigo and salt petre 3. Bullion and horses

4. Raw silk and sugar 5. Opium and pepper 6. Metals and perfumes
(a) All of them (c) ii, iii, iv and v
(b) i, ii, iii and iv (d) i, ii, iv v and vi
. Which of the following statements about the revenue reforms of Sher Shah

Sur are true?

(i) Assessment of land revenue on the basis of measurement of land
(ii) introduction of a new unit of measurement called ilahi gaz
(iii) Classification of land into three categories on the basis of their yield, i.e. good,
bad and middling.
(iv) Computation of the average produce of three kinds of land and fixing 1/3rd of
it as the land revenue.
(v) Issue of title deeds to peasants and acquisition of acceptaice deeds from them
Choose the answer from the codes below:
(a) All of them (b) i, ii, iii and iv
(c i. iii. iv and v (d) i, ii, iii and v
5. What were the various measures taken by Sher Shah to improve trade and

commerce?
(i) Building several new roads and restoration of all old ones
(ii) Construction ofrest houses along the roads for the convenience of the
travellers and traders
(iii) Issue of fine coins ofgold, silver and copper of uniform standard
(iv) Collection of customs duties and tolls at several places all through the empire
(v Making the local headmen and zamindars responsible for the loss of the goods
of merchants in transit
Select the answer from the codes below:
a) 1. ii. iii and iv (b) i, ii, iii and v
C) ii. iii. iv and v (d) All of them
6. Match the following

List I List II
(i) Jama (A) Assessed or stipulated revenue from a unit of land.

(ii) Hasil (B) Final and permanent assessed revenue from a unit of land
(iii)Dastur (C) Revenue actually collected from a unit of land
(iv) Bahi D) A particular unit of land

(v) Bigba (E) A revenue register kept at the village level

(a> i-A, li-C, ill-B, iv-E, v-D
(b) i-A, li-B, ui-C, iv-D, v-E
(c) i-B, il-C, iii-D, iv-A, v-E
(d) i-C, u-A, ill-B, iv-E, v-D
17. Match List I and List II and select the answer from the codes given below:
List I List II
1.Batai Assessment of land revenue on the basis of measurement
(2) Kankut Crop-sharing in different ways
(iii) Nasaq Estimation of revenue payable on the basis of past experience
(iv) Zabti Estimation of crop yield of the whole area on the basis of
sample survey
(v) Dabsala Collection of 1/3rd of the past 10 years average produce in
terms of cash
Which of the above are not correctly matched?
Choose the answer from the codes below:
(a i, ii and iii b. i, ii and iv
(c ii, iii and iv (d) i, iii and iv
18. Which of the following is correctly matched?
(.a) Polaj Annually cultivated land
(b) Chachar Left fallow for 1 or 2 years
(c) Banjar Left fallow for 3 or 4 years
(d) Parauti -Uncultivated for 5 or more years
19 . Match the following:
List I List II
(i) Mohur A. Mughal silver coin
(ii) Shahrukhi (B) Mughal gold coin
(iii) Patta E (C) Market town
(iv) Qabuliyat (D) Revenue acceptance
(v) Kasba (E) Revenue title deed

(a) i-A, u-B, i-C, iv-E, v-D

(b) i-B, iA, i-C, iv-E, v-D
(c a- i-B, u-A, iii-E, iv-D, v-C
(d) i-A, ii, iii-D, iv-E, v-C

20. Match the following:

List I List II
(i) Ganj (A) Proprietorship in land
(ii) Hat (B) Gift from an inferior to a superior
(iii) Milki (C) Hereditary lands
(iv) Nazrana ` (D) Market or trade centre
(v) Watan ` (E) Periodic village fair

(a) i-C, u-B, iii-E, iv-A, v-D

(b) i-B, iA, th-D, iv-E, v-C
(c i-D, ii-E, ui-A, i-B, v-C
(d) i-E, ii-D, ui-C, iv-A, v-B

Follow the following instructions for Questions from 21 to 25

Assertion and Reason Instructions
Mark (a) if Assertion (A) is correct and Rea50C (RI is wrong.
Mark (b) ifA is wrong and R is correct.
Mark (C) if both A and R are correct, and ifR is the correct explanation
or justification forA.
Mark (d) if both A and R are correct, but if R is not the correct
explanation or justification for A.

21. Assertion: Both Shah jahan and Aurangazeb expanded the khalisa lands
considerably at the expense of the jagir lands.
Reason: The number of mansabdars of the Mughal empire increased from
around 2000 in 1605 to almost 12,000 by 1675

22. Assertion: All mansabdars were jagirdars, but all jagirdars were not
mansabdars. ,
Reason: A few mansabdars were paid in cash and not through the
assignment of jagirs.
23. Assertion: In the Mughal period the peasants were recognised as the
proprietors of the soil in the pre-capitalist sense.
Reason: Under the Mughals the emperor, the jagirdars and the zarnindars
had superior rights over land revenue.

24 . Assertion: By his 24th regnal year, Akbar completed a series of revenue

reforms, which are together known as the ain-i-dahsala.
Reason: From Akbars 24th regnal year onwards, the only revenue system
that prevailed throughout his empire was the dahsala system.
25 . Assertion: The European traders were instrumental in introducing and
developing the institution of hundis in Mughal period.
Reason: The merchant class of the Mughal period was a highly stratified
class economically as well as socially.
Lower Level Questions
26. 114. Which of the following varieties of land during
Mughal period did not yield any land revenue to the state?
(a) Kbalisa (b)Jagir
(C) Sayurghal (d) Raiyati

27. Which one of the following was not a chief

feature of the dabsala system of land revenue?
(a) Survey and measurement of land
(b) Classification of land
(c) Fixation of rates
(d) Biennial assessment
28. 116. What portion of actual produce was fixed as the demand of the
state under the zabti?
(a) one-half (b) one-third
(c) one-fourth (d) one-ftfth

29. Under Aurangazeb, the amin collected:

(a) grazing tax (b) jizya
(c) kharaj (d) zakat

30. 131. Certain mansabdars were paid in cash. They were called:
(a) naqdis (b) jagirdars
(c) amirs (d) mirzas
31. Todar Mal was a brilliant revenue officer who first served under:
(a) Bhagawan Das (b) Sher Shah
(c) Humayun (d) Baz Bahadur

32. Who imposed the taxes like jaribana (surveyors

fee), mahasilana (tax collectors fee) and insurance tax on the
cultivators?
(a) Sher Shah (b) Akbar
c) Shah jahan (d) Aurangazeb

33. The land grants made to the scholarlymen were known as:
(a) inam (b) waqf
c. Sayurghal (d) madad-i-maash

34. Villages with no zarnindari rights were called:

(a) raiyati (b) milkiyat
(c) peshkasi (d) bisvi

35. The only type of jagir which could not be transferred was the:
(a) khidmati jagir (b watan jagir
 (c) milkiyat jagir (d) tan jagir

36. Who was the Frenchman that visited India six times during the reigns
of Shah Jahan and Aurangazeb and wrote his accounts of India in his work
Six Voyages?
(a) Tavernier (b) Manucci
(C) Thevenot (d) Bernier
37. The French traveller Francois Bernier served as physician to:
(a) Akbar (b) jahangir
(c) Shah jahan (d) Aurangazeb
38. Who introduced Silver Rupee in India that continued to be the name of
present Indian currency
a. Iltutmish b. Muhamad bin Tuglaq
C. Sher Sha D. Akbar

39. What was the early capital of the Portuguese in India?

(a) Goa b) Cochin (c) Calicut (d) Cannanore

40. Who was the Zamorin?

(a) Religious head of the Portuguese in India

(b) Commercial head of the Arab merchants in india

(c) The Muslim ruler of Cochin (d) The Hindu ruler of Calicut

41. Who established factory at Sutanuti in 1690?

(a) job Charnock

(b) Sir John Child

(c) Sir William Courten

(d) Eyre Coote

42. Who obtained the site of Madras and from whom?

(a) Captain Hawkins from the Nawab ofCarnatic (

b) Sir Thomas Roe from the Nizam of Hyderabad

(c) Sir Charles Evre from the Baja of Valikondapuram

(d) Francis Day from the Baja of Chandragiri

43. Identify Fort St. George and Fort William with their respective settlements?

(a) Bombay and Madras

(b) Bombay and Calcutta

(c) Madras and Calcutta

(d) Calcutta and Madras

44. At which of the following places did the Dutch set up factories in 1658?

(i) Kasimbazar (ii) Baranagore

(Ui) Hugh (iv) Patna

(v) Cochin (vi) Balasore

Choose the answer from the codes below:

(a i, ii, iii and iv (b) ii, iv, v and vi

(c) ii, iii, v and vi (d) All of them

45. Who obtained the site of Madras and from whom?

(a) Captain Hawkins from the Nawab ofCarnatic

(b) Sir Thomas Roe from the Nizam of Hyderabad

(c) Sir Charles Evre from the Baja of Valikondapuram

(d) Francis Day from the Raja of Chandragiri

46. At which of the following places on the west coast did the English have their
factories?

(i) Ahmadabad (ii) Salsette

(iii) Baroda (iv) Broach

(v) Bassein

Select the answer from the codes below:

(a) i, ii and iii (b) i, ii and iv

(c) i, iii and iv (d) ii, iii and v

47. Which code gives the correct matching of the following lists?

List I List II

(i) 1611 (A) Jahangirsfarman permitting the English to set up a factory

at Surat

(ii) 1613 (B) Establishment of an English factory at Masulipatarn

(iii) 1619 (C) Establishment of an English factory at Armagaon near

Pulicat

(iv) 1626 (D) Departure of Sir Thomas Roe for England

(a) i-C, iA. iii-D. iv-B

(b) i-A, ii-D. ui-C. iv-B

(c) i-D. ii. ui-A. iv-C

(d) i-B. u-A. m-D. iv-C

48. Which of the following were the main items that were imported by
Europeans from India?

(I) Textiles (ii) Indigo (Hi) Perfumes

 (iv) Saltpetre (v) Opum (vi) Horses

Choose the answer from the codes below:

(a) I, ii, iii andy (b) ii, iii, ivandv

(c i, H, iv and v (d) i, H, v and vi

49. Which region in India provided the best quality saltpetre and opium to
the Europeans?

(a) Coromandal (b) Gujarat

(c) Bihar (d) Malabar

50 . Which crop was introduced in India by the Portuguese?

(a) Coffee (b) Chili

(c) Tobacco (d) Groundnut

Key: 1- B ,2a, 3d, 4a b c d b d d c b a 17b,

18a, 19c, 20c, 21d, 22b, 23d, 24a, 25b, 26c, 27d, 28b, 29b, 30a,31b,32a, 33C,
34a, 35.b, 36a, 37d, 38. C, 39b, 40 d, 41a, 42d, 43c, 44d, 45d, 46c, 47d, 48 c, 49c,
50c