Volume : VI, Issue : VI, June - 2017

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS UNDER NORTHERN CIRCARS

P. Gopal Reddy

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 This piece of paper exhibits how far the economic conditions should be helpful and uplift the agriculturists, Zamindars and poor people in the Northern Circars under the administration of East India Company, afterwards the entire administration came into the hands of British Crown. It is unfortunate that nobody could help them as they expected deeply in the period of the then rulers. The East India Company did not see even the welfareness of the people who were lying under the poverty line. At the time all classes of the people were ignored and witnessed the miserable life. In addition to that the permanent settlement was very useful to the Zamindars. It did not safe guard the interests of the ryots sufficiently. Besides modes of revenue settlement, revenue system in Haveli lands, agriculture of the ryots, famines and unfavourable seasons, transport, and communication and condition of the ports were the main cause of the people in the Northern Circars, who had been suffering from economical and financial conditions from the very beginning. No government, No ruler looked after the welfare of the victims of famines and disasters. The cultivation had become an unfavourable occupation. Irrigation works were looked down. The real cause of the famines in India is not the failure of rains or the increase of population, but the negligence of the British authorities and the heavy taxation imposed on the people, according to 1813 charter’s act, every citizen of England could do his business in British India. This also influenced greatly the agriculture conditions. During the period the rulers were being mental giants but moral dwarfs in the administration. So they turned a deaf ear to the needs and the problems of the people. The whole wealth belonging to India had been looting frequently to their country. In this way the poor became poorer and the Zamindars became richer by means of illegal and over assessments.

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P.Gopal Reddy, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS UNDER NORTHERN CIRCARS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-6 | JUNE-2017

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