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Do you agree that the idea of permanent fixation of land revenue of 1793 in Bengal was highly influenced by the Physiocratic school of thinking? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

The Permanent Settlement of 1793, introduced by Lord Cornwallis in Bengal and Bihar, is usually explained through administrative failure and fiscal necessity — but its intellectual roots reach into contemporary European economic theory.

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  • What Physiocracy Actually Argued
  • Carriers of Physiocratic Ideas into Bengal Policy
  • Cornwallis's Settlement as Applied Physiocracy
  • Where Pragmatism Diverged From the Theory

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