INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

GS History Modern India
Q.

With reference to peasants revolts after 1857, consider the following statements:

1. They wanted to abolish system of lanlordism.

2. They did not wish to pay interest on the sums borrowed from moneylenders.

3. They rejected right of British to collect tax on land.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

Explanation:

Statement 1 is incorrect. Peasants did not protest against landlordism but against eviction and undue enhancement of rent.

Statement 2 is incorrect. They did not object to paying interest on the sums he had borrowed; they hit back against fraud and chicanery by the moneylender and when the latter went against tradition in depriving him of his land.

Statement 3 is incorrect. They did not deny the state's right to collect a tax on land but objected when the level of taxation overstepped all traditional bounds.

Thus, Option D is Correct.

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