Mains Paper I · 1 AP Social & Cultural History · 1.13 Colonial revenue and economy in Andhra

1.13.4 Rural economy in colonial Andhra: the Torture Commission, cotton boom and zamindari abolition

Colonial rule reshaped rural Andhra: revenue was collected by force (exposed by the Torture Commission, 1855), commercial crops rose and fell with world markets (the cotton boom of the 1860s), weavers lost their trade, tenants paid rents far above the revenue, and the zamindari system was finally abolished in 1948.

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Key terms

  • Torture Commission 1855
  • revenue coercion
  • kittee
  • tahsildar
  • American Civil War
  • cotton boom 1861-65
  • cotton crash
  • 12 annas
  • 6 annas
  • commercial crops
  • tobacco Guntur
  • groundnut
  • indebtedness
  • tenants
  • rents three to seven times
  • deindustrialisation
  • weavers
  • Madapollam
  • delta prosperity
  • N.G. Ranga
  • Nidubrolu
  • Madras Estates Land Act 1908
  • Madras Estates Abolition Act 1948
  • Rs 15.5 crore
  • Hyderabad Tenancy Act 1950

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