Condition of Peasants: Rural Indebtedness and Recurrent Famines

One hundred years of colonial revenue policy of the British East India Company made the entire Indian peasantry impoverished and indebted to unscrupulous moneylenders and bankers. It is all because of the high incidence of land revenue fixed and imposed by the British, existence of many intermedi­aries between the cultivator and the state, subdivision and fragmentation of landholdings and pressure [...]