why did the British put in practice different types of revenue settlement for different areas how did they affect the life of the people
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East India Company achieved the right of collecting land revenues from the states of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, as a part of the Treaty of Allahabad.
Warren Hastings started a revenue system of auctioning the revenue rights for five years in 1773, where the highest bidders got the chance of extracting land revenues from the poor farmers.
Permanent Settlement was another land revenue system introduced in 1793, by Lord Cornwallis and the zamindars were made owners of all the lands, till they paid fixed taxes to the British on due dates.
So the poor cultivators lost their lands to the zamindars and were highly exploited.
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