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Peasants and Farmers
Who was Captain Swing? What did the symbolise name represent?
Captain Swing was a mythic name used in letters addressed to landowners to break their threshing machines.
The landlords were alarmed because they were attacked by armed labourers at night and also because their farm houses were put on fire. Most of the landlords destroyed threshing machines.
Captain Swing’s name symbolised agrarian resistance and revolt by agricultural labourers against well-to-do farmers and landowners.
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Who was Captain Swing? What did the symbolise name represent?
What was the impact of the westward expansion of settlers in the USA.?
What were the advantages and disadvantages of the use of mechanical harvesting machines in the USA?
What lessons can be drawn from the conversion of the countryside in the USA from a bread basket to a dust bowl?
Write a paragraph on why the British insisted on farmers growing opium in India.
Why were Indian farmers reluctant to grow opium?
What is Sod?
What is known as ‘Milpa’ in Central Asia?
What stands for ‘Masole’?
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