Name any two demerits of the permanent settlement
Answers
2. The system was beneficial only for the landlords. The condition of farmers did not improve and they continued to be the victims of harassments by the landlord.
Explanation:
The Demerits of the Permanent Settlement:
1.The Permanent Settlement adversely affected the income of the company as the revenue was fixed quite on the low side due to lack of proper measurement.
2. It benefited only the landlords and the condition of the farmers could not be improved as much as was expected. The poor farmers continued to be the victims of the harassments of the landlords who exploited them for their own selfish motives.
3. The British government expected that with the implementation of permanent settlement the income of the company would increase tremendously but their expectations were not fulfilled.
4. This settlement also proved harm full for the landlords who failed to deposit the required revenue in the royal treasury in time. As a result, their land was sold off.
5. The landlords became indolent and led luxurious lives due to their richness. They did not pay proper attention to their lands and left them to their employees who made no serious efforts for the improvement of agricultural produce.
6. The peasants continued to be at the receiving end of the cruelties of the landlords. They continued to realise the maximum revenue from the peasants and deposited only the minimum in the treasury of the company.
7. It hurt the national feeling of the people because this system created a special class of zamindars in the country who became the true devotees of the English. This class did not support the people during the war of independence.
8. It was really a great mistake on the part of Cornwallis that he deprived the majority of the cultivators of the right of ownership of land and made the landlords owners 01 the land. Sir Charles Metcalfe writes about it, “Cornwallis instead of being the creator of prosperity in India was the great destroyer of it.”