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          Name the different types of people who lived in the northern part of the subcontinent in the earlier times.

Answer:

In the northern part of the sub-continent:

(i) The village headman was known as the Grama Bhojaka.

(ii) The independent farmers were known as grihapatis, most of whom were smaller landowners.

(iii) The other men and women who did not own land, and had to earn their living by working on the fields owned by others, were known as dasa karmakara.