Question Q.2GS1GS1
British colonial rule had a profound impact on Indian agriculture, fundamentally altering the traditional economy which led to severe peasant resistance. Discuss.
Main Body
British had come to India with colonial & imperial ideology.
Post Battle of Plassey (1757), they got direct political authority over Bihar & Bengal.
Impact on on Indian Agriculture & altering of the traditional agrarian economy:
1Changed the revenue administration.
2Introduced District Collectors performed for district at administrative unit & g.g.
3Introduced new zamindari, Mhalwari, Permanent Settlement & Ryotwari.
4Permanent Settlement forced zamindars to extract exorbitant tax from peasant.
5New levies of exploitation emerged.
6Money lenders changing expansionist interest rates → "debt-trap" of already impoverished peasantry. (ED: Maidarpara Uprising)
7No incentive with zamindars to invest in agricultural productivity.
8"Absentee landlordism" emerged after auctioning of zamindari rights.
9Shift to commercial crops like indigo, tea in Assam from subsistence farming.
10Plantation at Indigo & tea in British companies forced peasants for these crops size indigo. (ED: Naxalbari play)
Hence, British policy impoverished peasantry & gave rise structural. (Diagram: British Peasant Impoverishment play)
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Diagram
Structure showing relationship between British policy and peasant impoverishment
- Comprehensive coverage of policy mechanisms
- Connection between policies and peasant resistance
- Reference to specific uprisings
- Good use of diagram
Topper
SATVIK SHARMA
AIR 3272025
Subject & Paper
GS1GS1
Topic
Modern Indian History from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present
British Policies
Impact on Agriculture and Peasant Resistance
Writing Stats
160
Total words
14
Paragraphs
analytical
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