Define permanent settlement. - Vidyadip

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Define permanent settlement.

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Revenue was collected by the East India Company through middlemen known as Zamindars.
Permanent Settlement was the system on how the Zamindar would collect revenue, and what would be the relation between the East India Company and the Zamindars. Under permanent settlement amount payable to the government was fixed. The system was founded by Lord Cornwallis in 1790.

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