Question

How did the zamindari system of revenue settlement introduced by the colonial govt cause immense. mesery and social tension among the cultivators​

Answer 1

Answer:

India’s economy under the Britishcolonial rule remained fundamentally agrarian — about 85 per cent

of the country’s population lived mostly in villages and derived livelihood directly or indirectly from agriculture. However, despite being the occupation of such a large population, the agricultural sector continued to experience stagnation and, not infrequently, unusual deterioration. Agricultural productivity became low though, in absolute terms, the sector experienced some growth due to the expansion of the aggregate area under cultivation. This stagnation in the agricultural sector was caused mainly because of the various systems of land settlement that were introduced by the colonial government. Particularly, under the zamindari system which was implemented in the then Bengal