COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Jotedars.
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Ryots.
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Amins.
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Amlahs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Village headmen were called Jotedars and Mandals. They controlled local trade as well as money lending. They were too happy to see the zamindar in trouble. The zamindar could not easily assert his power over them.
Detailed explanation-2: -The village headman is also known as the Patla.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Jotedars opposed the moves of Zamindars to increase the Jama of a village. The Jotedars lived in villages only. Hence they were in a better position to interact with and influence the peasants. Jotedars were rich and owned big areas of land under cultivation.
Detailed explanation-4: -This class of rich peasants came to be known as jotedars. They had a control over vast areas of land. Sometimes they had even a control on many thousand acres of land. They even controlled local trade and money lending. They exercised immense power over the poor cultivators of the region.
Detailed explanation-5: -(i) They cleared forests and cut down timber. (ii) They ploughed land and grew rice and cotton. (iii) They expanded cultivaion and increased the inflow of revenue in the coffers of the East India Company. (iv) They cultivated many commercial crops for the market.