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‘Absentee landlordism was a consequential feature of Bengal’s Permanent land settlement.’ Comment.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

A revenue arrangement designed to create a resident, improving gentry ended up producing the very opposite kind of landholder within a generation.

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  • The Settlement's Financial Logic and the Seeds of Absenteeism
  • Indebtedness, Forced Sales and a New Landholding Class
  • Sub-Infeudation: The Patni Taluqdari System
  • The Zamindar as Urban Rentier
  • Consequences for Agriculture and the Peasantry

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