Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Under the colonial agrarian system, the Indian peasant was described as suffering under a “triple burden”. Which one of the following correctly identifies its components?

  1. Government, factory owner and foreign merchant
  2. Prince, village panchayat and revenue official
  3. Government, zamindar and moneylender
  4. Railway company, plantation owner and British banker
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