Describe the condition of an average peasant of north India during the

1.	Describe the condition of an average peasant of north India during the seventeenth century .
Answer» Solution :Following was the condition of an average peasant of north India during the 17th century. (i)The average peasant hardly had more than a PAIR of bullocks and two PLOUGHS. However most of the peasants had even less. (ii)LANDS of peasants were bought and SOLD in the same way as thelands of otherproperty owners . (iii)According to the sources of the 17th century , there were two kinds of peasants : (a)Khud-kashta(b)Pahi-kashta (iv)The khud-kashta were residents of the village in which they had their own plots of land on theother hand. the pahi-kashta were non-resident cultivators who belonged to some other village but cultivated landselsewhereon a contractual BASIS. (v)Theoverall conditionof an averagepeasantof north India during the 17th century was very ordinary. They had to face economic distress after a famine

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