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What role did the economic ideas plays in the early phase of the British rule in the shaping of land tenure policy?

  • UPSC 2010
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

Land revenue was the fiscal lifeline of the colonial state, and the search for the "correct" way to assess and collect it became a testing ground for successive schools of British economic thought.

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