Consider the following statements:
1. Indian cities like Dacca, Murshidabad, and Surat were known all over the world as centers of trade and industry in the precolonial period.
2. Such centers of trade and industry went down in the face of foreign competition in the colonial period.
3. Indian artisans, manufacturers, and weavers were provided alternative employment by the British Indian government after the decline of these centers of trade.
Which of the statements given above is/are not correct?
Important Questions on History
You are to carefully examine these two statements and select the answers to these questions using the codes below. \
Statement-I: The Jajmani system was one in which the village artisans supplied traditionally fixed quantities of their products to peasant families in return for shares in the harvest.
Statement-II: The Jajmani system consisted of the Jotedars (wealthy farmers) and the Bargadars (sharecroppers).
