Question

explain zamindari system

Answer 1

Under British colonial rule in India, the permanent settlement consolidated what became known as the zamindari system. The British rewarded supportive zamindars by recognizing them as princes. Many of the region's princely states were pre-colonial zamindar holdings elevated to a greater protocol. However, the British also reduced the land holdings of many pre-colonial aristocrats, demoting their status to a zamindar from previously higher ranks of nobility.

Answer 2

the british introduced various zamindari systems like dual system by lord clive the mahalwari system and quininal system which all has a single motive that to absorb more and more taxes from the peasants