Q. In context of the society during the Mughal period, the term ‘talluqa’ refers to which of the following?
Answer: Right of a zamindar to collect land revenue from an area
Notes: Zamindars were a powerful class during the medieval period. It was a heterogeneous class. Many of them had large tracts of land under personal ownership and cultivation. In addition to the land they owned and cultivated, a considerable section of the zamindars had the hereditary rights of collecting land revenue from a number of villages. This was called his talluqa or his zamindari. For collecting the land revenue, the zamindars received a share of the land revenue which could go up to 25% in some areas. The zamindar was not the owner of all the lands comprising his Zamindari. The peasant-cultivators could not be disposed as long as they paid the land revenue. So, option b is the correct answer.

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