what did the british impose on the indian farmers
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The British changed the nature and structure of an industry that 80% of Indians considered their livelihood. A new class of landlords emerged that rented the land to farmers. Farmers began a cycle of debt that led to poverty as they were expected to give a majority of their crops to the landlord. HOPE IT WILL HELP YOU
Like so many other sectors of domestic industry, Indian agriculture was decimated by British colonialism. In order to protect and strengthen colonial rule, the British created an artificial class system in the Indian countryside in the hopes that a new class of landlords would act as a reliable political foundation for the Raj.
The so-called Zamindars did indeed fulfill this function, but unfortunately, they did nothing for the Indian agricultural economy. The Zamindars systematically squeezed every last penny out of the land they owned, impoverishing the local peasantry and turning them into tenants with no rights, who could thus easily be evicted from the land they had worked for generations.
As farmers were increasingly required to grow cash crops to be exported to Great Britain, much domestic..
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