Question

what is mahalwari system?

what r its main features? ​

Answer 1

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• In 1822, Holt Mackenzie devised a new system to collect revenue that came to be known as Mahalwari Settlement.

• This was enacted in the Northwest provinces of the Bengal Presidency.

• He understood that village being an important social institution in the social set up of India, needed to be preserved.

• He ordered the collectors to visit villages, gather not only important information pertinent to the land but also about the customs and rights practised by the village people.

• On the basis of these records, the revenue that each village (mahal) had to pay was fixed.

$\textbf{\small{\underline{The Main Features of Mahalwari System -}}}$

• The land revenue was not collected by the zamindars but the village headman

was entrusted with the responsibility of collecting revenue and paying it to the Company.

• The revenue demand was not fixed permanently as in the case of Permanent Settlement.

• According to the prevailing conditions, the revenue demand was to be revised periodically.

• This system came to be known as the mahalwari settlement because a village was called as mahal.