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The ryotwari system was a land revenue system in British India introduced by Thomas Munro, ... [Zamindars] the system of assessment was known as zamindari.
In 1911, zamindari estates covered 26 million acres (110,000 km 2) and occupied over one-fourth of the total area of the presidency. [1] In 1945-46, there were 20,945,456 acres (84,763.25 km 2 ) of Zamindari estates which yielded a revenue of 97,83,167 Rupees and 58,904,798 acres (238,379.26 km 2 ) of ryotwari lands which yielded a revenue of ...
The ryotwari system was known as "severality villages" and based on the system of peasant proprietorship. [10] The ryotwari (or ryotwary) tenure related to land revenue imposed on an individual or community owning an estate and occupied a position analogous to that of a landlord. The assessment was known as "zamindari". [11]
A zamindar [a] in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal ruler of a zamindari (feudal estate). The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals, and later the British began using it as a native synonym for "estate". The term means landowner in Persian. They were typically hereditary and held the right to ...
In 1898, Madras produced 7.47 million tons of food grains from 21,570,000 acres (87,300 km 2) of crops grown on 19,300,000 acres (78,000 km 2) of ryotwari and inam lands, which supported a population of 28 million. [133]
It has a glorious past. Which once saw the glory of many zamindari estates and also huge estates like Peddapuram, Pithapuram, Kota Ramchandrapuram, Polvaram etc. each comprising 372, 128, 66, 128 respectively. It later got bifurcated into East and West Godavari in 1925. [1] But before that these districts compressed few Zamindaries and their ...
The Permanent Settlement, also known as the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, was an agreement between the East India Company and landlords of Bengal to fix revenues to be raised from land that had far-reaching consequences for both agricultural methods and productivity in the entire British Empire and the political realities of the Indian countryside.
List of Zamindaris in Krishna District in the year 1874-75 Zamindari Holder Peskash Krishna district Nuzvid Estate: 95,443 Virsanapettah 20,829 Challapalli: 81,397 Chintalapati Vantu 17,500 Chevendra 4,776 Chanubanda 1.357 Mylavaram Muttah 1.25 vantu 4,858 Mylavaram Muttah 1 vantu 3,887 Vutukur Muttah 2,156 Half of Tiruvur Muttah 2,117