1. What problems did shifting cultivators face under British rule?
2. Why were Rayots reluctant to grow indigo?
3. What is Secularism?
Answers
Explanation:
1.The British wanted the shifting cultivators to settle down and became peasant cultivators. But settled plough cultivation is not easy in areas where water is scarce and the soil is dry. In fact, shifting cultivators who took to plough cultivation often suffered. Their fields did not produce good yields
2. The ryots were reluctant to grow indigo because: The planters paid a very low price for indigo. ... The planters insisted that the peasants cultivate indigo on the most fertile parts of their land, but the peasants preferred growing rice on the best soils after an indigo harvest.
3.The most common definition of secularism is the separation of religion from civic affairs and the state, yet it may connote anticlericalism, atheism, naturalism, banishment of religious symbols from the public sphere and much more