What do you mean by Zamindari system
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Under British colonial rule in India, the permanent settlement consolidated what became known as the zamindari system. The British rewarded supportive zamindars by recognizing them as princes. Many of the region's princely states were pre-colonial zamindar holdings elevated to a greater protocol.
ZAMINDARI SYSTEM ------» zamindari system was made a hereditary rights of zamindars under the permanent settlement of zamindari bandobast in 1783. They word made the owners of the land and were forced to pay 89% of the total revenue to the British government. Their own share was 11%.
The system gave birth to a new class of landlords consisting of the rajas and taluqdars is called the Zamindars Who had the power to evict any cultivator of the soil due to the non payment of revenue as such they used oppressive methods to collect the taxes. The peasants were compelled to take loans from the money lenders to pay unpaid rent, which made their life miserable. On the other hand, maximum benefit went to the zamindars. As the company could not claim on the increased income of zamindars as they had fixed it permanently, they decided not to implement this system in the newly conquered territories.