Define the following terms: Bigha, Slave and Plantation.
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Bigha - The bigha (also formerly beegah) is a traditional unit of measurement of area of a land, commonly used in India (including Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Gujarat and Rajasthan but not in southern states of India), Bangladesh and Nepal .
Slave - (in past times) a person who was owned by another person and had to work for him/her.
Plantation - a large area of land, especially in a hot country, where tea, cotton, tobacco, etc. are grown.
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While bigha is a measurement unit, sl ave refers to a dominant person and plantation is a plant's group.
- Bigha - It is a traditional unit of land area measurement. It does not have a uniform size and varies greatly from location to location. In India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, it is widely utilised.
- Sl ave - It represents an individual who is in ownership of and completely obedient to another, and is made to work without a pay. Such an individual is often at the influence of another person.
- Plantation - It is a broad collection of plants, notably trees, that are under cultivation and are intended for cash crop farming. The types grown are coffee, cotton etc.
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