India's Changing Villages
This increasing pressure on agriculture was one of the major causes of the extreme poverty of India under the British rule. In the very beginning of British rule in Bengal, the policy of Clive and Warren Hastings of extracting the largest possible land revenue had led to such devastation that even Cornwallis complained that one-third of Bengal had been transformed into ‘a jungle inhabited only by ...
This increasing pressure on agriculture was one of the major causes of the extreme poverty of India under the British rule. In the very beginning of British rule in Bengal, the policy of Clive and Warren Hastings of extracting the largest possible land revenue had led to such devastation that even Cornwallis complained that one-third of Bengal had been transformed into ‘a jungle inhabited only by ...
