Question

Round ofthe concept by explaining how the new land revenue systems changed the face of agriculture and land ownership in india?

Answer 1

Answer:

Ryotwari System

Mahalwari system

Permanent Settlement

Explanation:

The main source of living during British rule is Agriculture most of the Indians were working as peasants and farm workers.

The British put a too heavy land tax on the Indian Farmers by introducing new lands revenue systems such as *Ryotwari System, *Permanent Settlement and *Mahalwari system.

• Ryot means farmer under "Ryotwari system" the land revenue was directly imposed on farmers on the land which he cultivates.

when farmers unable to pay the high land revenue the land of farmers directly transfer to the British.

• Under the "Permanent settlement" tax was directly collected by the zamindars, zamindaris the owner of the land, the farmer became tenant and tax should be paid in cash.

• Under the "Mahalwari system" land was divided into Mahals, Mahals is like big landlords each Mahal compromises with one or more villages.

Answer 2

The new land revenue systems changed the face of agriculture and land ownership in india:

India has been a country with an agrarian economy for centuries and the majority of people in India were indulged in agriculture or agricultural-related activities. The land revenue from farmers has always been the major source of income for kings ranging form the Guptas, the Khiljis, the Mughals or the British. The cropping pattern of earlier times was different from those introduced by the British.

The British introduced land reform policies such as the Zamindari system the Mahalwari system and the Ryotwari system. In all such types of land system a large piece of land was given to a zamindar and he was to collect the land revenue or taxes from the peasants, he was to give a fixed amount of tax to the British government and was allowed to keep the rest of the income with them. But, this led the zamindars to take exceptionally high rates of taxes from the peasants and their situations deteriorated.

They were subjected to exploitation from both the zamindars and the government. Also, most of them were forced to plant cash crops and they could not feed themselves properly with the little money they had left with them, and they were subjected to be starved to death. After independence of India, the Indian government realised the threat to the farmers and immediately after the government was formed they introduced the First Five Year Plan.

In this, the government took major steps to abolish the Zamindari system in India and distributed large pieces of lands of zamindars to marginalised farmers and Dalits. Now, those landless labourers had lands of their own on which they can cultivate whatever they wanted and a nominal tax was imposed on them by the government as government revenue. This revolutionary step for the betterment of marginalised section was proved to be utterly important to remove various social evils like caste also.