Advantage of mahalwari system
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Advantages of the Mahalwari System:
• Revolutionised land as an asset or property that can be pledged for mortgage, sale, or purchase. The land became a market commodity product with exchange, transfer or purchase value assigned according to its condition.
• Introduced capitalistic agrarian production and introduced commercial agriculture as farmers were forced to do so to meet their financial needs.
• Village community or the mahals were institutionalised with the village headman being in charge of the whole process.
• The system was more flexible. It had simplified the processing of estimating the produces and fixing the rents according to the condition of the land.
• It proved to be a great stabilised income generator for the then British Government because the land was always pledged by the farmers due to ever-growing agrarian financial needs .