Question

Why were the Jotedars powerful figure in many areas of rural Bengal at the end of the Eighteenth Century? Give two reasons.

Answer 1

Answer:

Jotedars were "wealthy peasants" who comprised one layer of social strata in agrarian Bengal during Company rule in India. Jotedars owned relatively extensive tracts of land; their land tenure status stoods in contrast to those of under-ryots and bargadars, who were landless or land-poors.