Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Zamindars (6. Zamindari consolidation (colonisation of new lands, transfer…
Zamindars
6. Zamindari consolidation
colonisation of new lands
transfer of rights
by the order of the state
by purchase
This also halped the consolidation of clan or lineage based zamindari
7. Zamindars
colonised agricultural lands
set up cultivation
cash loans to cultivators
means of cultivation
established markets
3. derivation of power
they collected revenue on behalf of the state
they were compensated financially for this service
control over military resources
had a fortress
had an armed contingent
cavalry
infrantry
artillery
8
.Their relationship with peasantry had elements of patronage
bhakti saints did not call them exploitative
peasants supported the zamindars in their struggle against the state
1. lived off of agriculture but did not directly participate in the production process
had socio-economic privileges
Why?
caste
performed services for the state
2. they owned land called Milkiyat
this was cultivated by hired or servile labour
was for their personal use
4. Zamindars were the narrow apex of the pyramid of the countryside in Mughal period
Abu'l Fazl's account says that Brahmana and Rajput zamindars were taking over the countryside
5. Some docs say that conquest was the source of the origin of some zamindaris
dispossession of the weaker people by a powerful military chieftain was a way of expanding zamindari
however :warning: it is unlikely that the state would have allowed any zamindar to show this extent of aggression unless they were confirmed by the state
Allowed people from "lower caste" to become zamindars