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Q39 (CDS-I/2019) History & Culture › Modern India (Pre-1857) › Land revenue settlements Answer Verified

The Summary Settlement of 1856 was based on which one of the following assumptions?

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The Summary Settlement of 1856 was the first British land revenue settlement introduced in Awadh immediately following its annexation. This policy was driven by the 'School of Utilitarianism' and a desire to establish direct relations with the actual cultivators. The British administration operated under the specific assumption that the Talukdars were interlopers with no permanent stakes in the land [1]. The British believed that Talukdars had acquired their vast estates through force, fraud, and the exploitation of the declining Mughal authority rather than through legitimate hereditary ownership [2]. Consequently, the settlement aimed to remove these intermediaries wherever possible, leading to a significant dispossession of Talukdari lands. Before the annexation, Talukdars held approximately 67% of the villages in Awadh, but this figure dropped significantly to about 38% following the implementation of the 1856 settlement [2].

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  1. [2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/44158846
  2. [1] THEMES IN INDIAN HISTORY PART III, History CLASS XII (NCERT 2025 ed.) > Chapter 10: REBELS AND THE RAJ > The Nawab has left > p. 268
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