NCERT Class 12 History Chapter 4 Peasants, Zamindars and the State Test Mock Test
This free online test covers Chapter 4, Peasants, Zamindars and the State, from the NCERT Class 12 Themes in Indian History-II textbook. The 30 questions are written directly from the chapter — definitions, processes, worked examples and the points the book italicises — so a score here tells you how much of the chapter actually stuck, not how well you guess. Each answer carries an explanation that says why the right option is right and why the other three fail, which is where most of the learning happens. Attempt it after your first read of the chapter, then again before the exam. There is no negative marking, and you can review the full solution the moment you submit.
Duration
30 mins
Questions
30 MCQs
Total Marks
30 pts
Negative
0 per wrong
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Sample Questions
Q1.What proportion of India's population lived in villages during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, according to the chapter?
- AAbout 40 per cent
- BAbout 60 per cent
- CAbout 85 per cent
- DAbout 95 per cent
Q2.Why does the chapter caution that whatever we learn about peasants from the Ain-i Akbari remains "a view from the top"?
- AIts author never held any office at the Mughal court
- BIt recorded only the customs of forest dwellers and not those of settled peasants
- CIt was written two centuries after the events it describes
- DIts central purpose was to present a vision of Akbar's empire in which social harmony was provided by a strong ruling class, with any revolt predestined to fail
Q3.Seventeenth-century sources distinguish khud-kashta peasants from pahi-kashta peasants. The pahi-kashta were:
- AResidents of the village in which they held their lands
- BNon-resident cultivators who belonged to another village but cultivated lands elsewhere on a contractual basis
- CPeasants who held their land directly from a zamindar's milkiyat
- DAgricultural labourers who owned no land at all
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