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Land Revenue System Under British. British got Diwani rights of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa in 1765. The major aim of British East India Company was to increase their land revenue collection. So its policies were aimed at getting maximum income from land without caring about its consequences on cultivators and peasants.
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- The indian peasants had been forced to bear , the main burden of providing money for the trade and profits of the company, the cost of administration, and the wars if British expansion in India . in fact , the British could not have conquered such a vast country as india if they had not taxed him heavily.
- The indian state had since times immemorial taken a part of the agriculture produce as land revenue. it had been done so either directly through it's servants or indirectly through intermediaries , such as Zamindars, revenue _ farmers, etc who collected the land revenue from the cultivator and kept a part of it as their commission.
- The intermediaries were primarily collectors of land revenue, although they did sometimes own some land in the area from which they collected revenue.
- The land revenue policy in India can studied into three following heads.
Land Revenue policy.
- Permanent settlement
- Ryotwari settlement
- Mahaleari settlement.
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