Question

IV. Long Answer Type Questions
1. How were the peasants affected by the agrarian policies of the British? HOTS
2. What was the Mahalwari System ? Discuss.
3. What was the Wahabi Movement ? Discuss.​

Answer 1

1)This happened in India as a result of the policies of the British. The beneficiaries were landlords and the government and victims were the peasants. ... Even for paying land revenue to the government:the peasants were obliged to borrow and unable to pay an indebted peasantry develop agriculture

2) Mahalwari system, one of the three main revenue systems of land tenure in British India, the other two being the zamindar (landlord) and the ryotwari (individual cultivator). The word mahalwari is derived from the Hindi mahal, meaning a house or, by extension, a district.

3)Founded by Sayyid Ahmad (1786-1831) of Rae Bareli, the Wahhabi Movement in India was a vigorous movement for socio-religious reforms in Indo-Islamic society in the nineteenth century with strong political undercurrents