To what extent is it possible to charcterise agricultural production in the sixteenth-seventeeth centuries as subsistence agriculture ? Givereasonsfor your answer .

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1.	To what extent is it possible to charcterise agricultural production in the sixteenth-seventeeth centuries as subsistence agriculture ? Givereasonsfor your answer .
Answer» Solution :(a) During MUGHAL reign, India was basically an agricultural country. In the Mughal stateof India different varieties of crops were produced. In Bengal two varieties of RICES were produced.Butthe focus on the cultivation of basic crops does not MEAN that only subsistence agriculture existed in medieval India. (b) The Mughal state encouraged peasants to cultivate varieties of CROP which brough in revenue especially cottonandsugarcane. (c)Cotton was mainly grown in vast area whichwas spread over central India and the Deccan plateau, WHEREAS in Bengal ugarcane wasmainly produced. (d)Many varieties of cash cropssuch as oilseedsincluding mustard and lentils. (e)an average peasant of that time grew bothcommercial andsubsistence crops.