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Explain how the Permanent Settlement initiated a rule of property in Bengal and what were its consequences?
- UPSC 2022
- Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule
The Permanent Settlement of 1793 did something no prior Indian revenue arrangement had done — it created, by legal fiat, a class of persons holding absolute, heritable, transferable private property in land, and in doing so imported an entirely new legal category into Bengal's agrarian order.
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- From Diwani to Permanent Settlement: The Legal Genealogy
- How the Settlement Constructed a Rule of Property
- Consequences for the Peasantry
- Consequences for the Zamindars Themselves
- Consequences for Agriculture, State and Society
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