describe the main feature of the permanent settlement
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Cornwallis, who followed Warren Hastings, as Governor General of Bengal was sent with specific instructions to improve the land revenue to be collected from Bengal.
The British Parliament by an Act of 1784 directed the Court of directors to give up the practice of annual settlement of revenue to be collected and to fix up the collection of revenue of land on a permanent basis.
Cornwallis appointed an inquiry committee under the headship of Sir John Shore and asked him to inquire about the usages, tenures and rents of land revenue collection in pre-colonial India.
The Permanent Settlement System was a land revenue system introduced in 1793 by East India Company. Rajas and taluqdars were recognized as Zamindars to collect rent from the peasants and pay revenue to the Company. The main features of the Permanent Settlement system are:
a. The amount paid by the zamindars to the company was fixed permanently.
b. The Rajas were made the zamindars.
c. Zamindars lost their right over the lands whenever they fail to make payments to the company.
d. Exorbitant prices of land which zamindars had to pay to the company (which they failed).