What did the British do to reduce the landed Aristocracy to poverty?
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The British confiscated around 20,000 properties which were rent free, Imam Commission was appointed to inquire into the title-deeds on accounts of the passage of time. This reduced the landed aristocratic class to penury
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The British confiscated around 20,000 properties which were rent free, Imam Commission was appointed to inquire into the title-deeds on accounts of the passage of time. This reduced the landed aristocratic class to penury.
The Company increased land revenue. Not even a part of this revenue was spent on the development of agriculture or on the welfare of the cultivator. Increase in the land revenue forced many peasants into indebtedness or into selling their lands. The traditional zamindars were replaced by merchants and money-lenders.