Question

How far the parmanent settlement helped the agriculture development?

Answer 1

the condition of the Bengali peasantry became increasingly pitiable, with famines becoming a regular occurrence as landlords (who risked immediate loss of their land if they failed to deliver the expected amount from taxation) sought to guarantee revenue by coercing the local agriculturalists to cultivate by the countrymen cash crops such as cotton, indigo, jute (opium plantations were managed directly by the Company), while the long-term private investment by the zamindars in agricultural infrastructure failed to materialise.