Q. Consider the following statements regarding “Chuar Uprising”:
1. Chuar aboriginal tribesmen belong to the Baluchistan province of North Western India.
2. They held their lands under a kind of feudal tenure.
3. They are not strongly attached to the soil and always ready to change from farming to hunting.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: C
Notes:
Famine, enhanced land revenue demands and economic distress goaded the Chuar aboriginal tribesmen of the Jungle Mahal of Midnapore district and also of the Bankura district (in Bengal) to take up arms.
They held their lands under a kind of feudal tenure, but were not strongly attached to the soil, being always ready to change from farming to hunting, at the bidding of their jungle chiefs or zamindars.
Source: Spectrum Modern India.
