Maharashtra State PSC Model Paper 3

The correct answer 1, 2 and 3.

• The Permanent Settlement :
  • The Permanent Settlement had come into operation in 1793.
  • The East India Company had fixed the revenue that each zamindar had to pay.
  • The estates of those who failed to pay were to be auctioned to recover the revenue.

• At the time of rent collection, an officer of the zamindar, usually the amlah, came around to the village. But rent collection was a perennial problem.
• Sometimes bad harvests and low prices made payment of dues difficult for the ryots.
• At other times ryots deliberately delayed payment.
• Rich ryots and village headmen – jotedars and mandals – were only too happy to see the zamindar in trouble.
• The zamindar could therefore not easily assert his power over them.
• Zamindars could prosecute defaulters, but the judicial process was long drawn. In Burdwan alone, there were over 30,000 pending suits for arrears of rent payment in 1798.