How did the farmers ruin during the British rule ?
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The growth of minimum of subsistence crops led to the deterioration and impoverishment of the Indian agriculture and the cultivators. The peasant was suppressed under triple burden of the government, landlord and the moneylender.
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All these system brought following changes :
a) Land became property. Private ownership of land came.
b) Farmers became poor and food insecurity grew. Britishers demanded revenue in cash which made farmers to grow cash crop like indigo, cotton so area under food crop declined. As a result india saw many famines and many people died of starvation.
c) Britishers constructed many canals and more area was brought under cultivation but most of the canals caused salanity and swamps . Productivity declined over years. As tax on canal irrigation was high so mostly it was used to grew cash crop.
d) Indebted farmer- Britishers forced farmers to grew cash crop for which input cost was high. They were not spared even during drought and famines. In such situations they borrowed money from local money lenders which trapped them in debt cycle.
e) British land revenue system transferred ownership of land from farmer to local moneylender.
f) India became village based agriculture economy- deurbanization and deindustrialization crated great pressure on agriculture.