RURAL LIFE ANDSOCIETY

EFFECT ON RURAL LIFE

Rural life basically those areas which are not developed and the villages those were more or less self-sufficient. The villages mainly cultivates crops and some part is given to the rubers as part of revenue. Disputes were settled withen the villages by the panchayat gradually by the outside panchayat lost its identy. -Anupam bardhan

New land revenue settlement

The main motive of the British like any other imperial power was to collect revenue from land and that could not done without a proper system. The British to collect revenue and rule to Indian farmer they evaled different laws.

– Arman

Permanent settlement

The permanent settlement was introduced by cornwallis in Bengal in 1793 the main prorision of the settlement were:

1. The zamindar were made the owaers of the land. They worked as the government in the land revenue.

2. The zamindar had to pay about 89% of the collected land revenue to the government.

- Abhishek roy

Commercialisation of agriculture

By the mid-eighteenth century, the east India company had acquired territories in south India, Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, etc. These areas were rich in agriculture and possessed a flourishing trade in handicrafts. The crops on which the company concentrated were indigo, cotton, raw silk, opium, peppor, tea and sugar. -Ankur

sugar In the 1830s the indigo planters suffered of prices and sales

and began to invest in the production of sugar for the london market often that planters begain setting up sugar plantation in eastern up. They were produce gur for local consumption and sale to other parts of India.

The local consumption were now found to produce a sugarcane juice called root for delivery to the planters who ahead in sugar

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Impact of the colonial agrariam policy

The impact British rule on Indian agriculture sector was that the farmer land became saleable property.

The system of playing revenue within the specifiel time compelled many small peasant and land holders to dispose of their property.

The government put his land for sale to collect the arrears of revenue in such care.

Gunajit das

THANK YOUGroup members names Ankur Anupam Abhishak Shivaji ARMAN