UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2006 · Q1(b) · 20 marks
‘A self-sufficient village, based on agriculture carried on with the primitive plough and bullock-power, and handicraft by means of simple instruments, was a basic feature of pre-British Indian economy.'
- Chapter
- Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule
- Topic
- The Village, Landlordism and the Peasantry
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