Role of intermediaries during the pre independence era
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(c) Exploitation:
The Zamindari system itself was based on exploitation as it conferred unlimited rights on the Zamindars to extract as much rent as they wished. Approximately, one-fourth of the produce was taken away by the intermediaries in the form of rent.
Moreover, the tenants had to work in the houses of Zamindars on occasions like marriage, religious festivals without any return.
(d) Psychological insecurity:
Under the Zamindari system the actual tiller of the land was not the owner of the land. Hence he was always in fear of his ejection from the land.c) Exploitation:
The Zamindari system itself was based on exploitation as it conferred unlimited rights on the Zamindars to extract as much rent as they wished. Approximately, one-fourth of the produce was taken away by the intermediaries in the form of rent.
Moreover, the tenants had to work in the houses of Zamindars on occasions like marriage, religious festivals without any return.
(d) Psychological insecurity:
Under the Zamindari system the actual tiller of the land was not the owner of the land. Hence he was always in fear of his ejection from the land.