what is the impact of the land revenue system on the peisents
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Answer:
The new land revenue system fixed very high revenue over the peasants. However peasants were unable to pay them and as a result, villages were deserted and ryots fled the countryside. It also resulted in revolt s and protests from them.
Explanation:
Land revenue is tax or revenue levied on agricultural production on land.
The Indian state had since time immemorial taken a part of the agricultural produce as land revenue.
It has been the major source of revenue for empires.
It is either collected as a percentage of the share of the total crop or a monetary value is fixed on the land to be paid by the farmer.
It had done so either directly through its servants or indirectly through intermediaries, such as zamindars, revenue farmers, etc., who collected the land revenue from the cultivator and kept a part of it as their commission.
These intermediaries were primarily collectors of land revenue, although they did sometimes own some land in the area from which they collected revenue.
Land Revenue System Under British rule
Since the acquisition of Diwani rights (right to collect taxes on behalf of the Emperor) for Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa in 1765, a major concern of the Company was to increase the land revenue collection, which historically was the major source of revenue for the state in India.
Nearly all the major changes in the administration and judicial system till 1813 were geared to the collection of land revenues.
The main burden of providing money for the trade and profits of the Company, the cost of administration, and the wars of British expansion in India had to be borne by the Indian peasant or ryot.
British could not have conquered such a vast country as India if they had not taxed the peasant heavily.
They introduced the policy of revenue collection by abandoning the age-old system of revenue administration.
Their policies were aimed at getting maximum income from the land without caring about its consequences on cultivators and peasants.
Three major systems of land revenue collection existed in India.