Question

write a short note on the merits of mahalwari system?

Answer 1

 

A modified version of the zamindari settlement, introduced in the Ganga valley, the North-West Provinces, parts of central India, and he Punjab, was known as the Mahalwari System.

The revenue settlement was to be made village by village or estate (mahal) by estate with landlords or heads of families who collectively claimed to be the landlords of the village or the estate. In the Punjab a modified Mahalwari System known as the village system was introduced. In Mahalwari areas also, the land revenue was periodically revised.