Question

Which of the following is not true about the intervention of the colonial state and its impact on the institution of caste?

Options

• Land revenue settlements and related arrangements and laws gave legal recognition to the customary (caste-based) rights of the upper castes.

• Large scale irrigation schemes like the ones in Punjab were accompanied by efforts to settle populations there, and these also had a caste dimension.

• Colonial states did not work for the welfare of the downtrodden.

• Direct attempts to count caste and to officially record caste status changed the institution itself.

Answer 1

Colonial states did not work for the welfare of the downtrodden.