The demand said to be based on 34th gross produce was actually two thirds or more. This was achieved by changing the natural and artificial classes of soil, by arbitrarily enhancing the irrigated assessed area, by assuming a higher than the actual yield, and by evaluating the gross pro duce at a rate higher than actually re ceived by the cultivator. This excessive demand was accompanied by a policy of regressive taxation which subjected the irrigated land to a lighter and the dry barani land to a heavier taxation. The inequity was compounded when the Brit ish also introduced a new intermediary class of landed proprietors and provided it with invisible 50% land revenue as profit rent built in the structure. This mopping up of the accumulated reserves was virtu ally drain of wealth from the Indian states.
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