UPSC Prelims · 2019 · GS Paper I · Q52

With reference to land reforms in independent India, which one of the following statements is correct?

  1. (A)The ceiling laws were aimed at family holdings and not individual holdings.
  2. (B)The major aim of land reforms was providing agricultural land to all the landless.
  3. (C)It resulted in cultivation of cash crops as a predominant form of cultivation.
  4. (D)Land reforms permitted no exemptions to the ceiling limits.
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Answer: (B) The major aim of land reforms was providing agricultural land to all the landless.

Subject
History
Chapter
Post-Independence India

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