With Statement to the history of India, consider the following pairs: 1) Aurang - In-charge of treasuary of the State 2) Banian - Indian agent of the East India Company 3) Mirasidar - Designated revenue payer to the State Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

The correct answer is C, because only pair 3 is correctly matched.

• Pair 1 is wrong. An aurang was a state-run workshop or manufactory, typically for textiles, under the Mughals. It was not a treasury. The treasury was handled by officers such as the khazanadar, and the mushrif-i-khazana kept the accounts.
• Pair 2 is wrong. A banian was a personal servant or financial agent, usually a merchant-broker attached to an individual European in a private capacity. The Company's formal Indian agents were the dubash in Madras and the gomastha, who was a commercial agent in the Company's trade. Treat banian as a term for a household or private agent, not for the Company's official agency.
• Pair 3 is correct. A mirasidar was a holder of hereditary landed rights in the Madras region who paid land revenue directly to the state. This is the basis of the ryotwari settlement, which was introduced in the Madras Presidency and bypassed intermediaries.

This topic links to Modern Indian History on land revenue systems and to Mains GS-III on agrarian relations and the colonial revenue structure.

Trap: candidates tend to accept any pair that sounds like a revenue or trade term. Check each term's exact function. Aurang is a workshop, not a treasury, and the Company's official Indian agents were not called banians.