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Download Solution PDFWhich British official had written about the uncertain land conditions prevailing in northern India that, “.... in the landed property of the country a very extensive and melancholy revolution” had been affected ?
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Download Solution PDFThis statement is made by the British official Holt Mackenzie, and is quoted in the book by Eric Stokes. Stoke’s work titled “Peasants and the Raj” examines the changes that came in the agrarian society in the 19th century, especially in the immediate aftermath of the 1857 revolt.
Holt remarks the policies of the colonial government which had overturned the existing land relations in northern India, had greatly impacted the landed elites, who could now no longer get back to their earlier position, the newer kinds of revenue settlements brought in by the new government disposed of the hereditary rights of these landowners, which Holt refers to the “melancholy and extensive revolution.
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