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Deccan riots(a) When and where did the first recorded incident of rioting against the moneylenders in the Deccan appear?(b) What was the right given to moneylenders under a new law of the British?(c) What did it result in?(d) Against whom was the violence directed in the Deccan riots. |
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Answer» (a) In May 1875 in Supa, a village near Poona the first recorded incident of rioting against the moneylenders in the Deccan appeared. (b) Under the new law of the British the moneylenders were given the right to attach the mortgaged land of the defaulters auction it of (c) It resulted in the transfer of land from the cultivators to the non-cultivating classes (d) In the Deccan riots violence was directed against the Gujarat money lenders. |
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