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

1.13.1 Zamindars of the Northern Circars: Padmanabham 1794 and the Permanent Settlement 1802

In the Northern Circars the Company first left the zamindars in place for a fixed tribute (peshkash), crushed the defiant Vizianagaram raja at Padmanabham (1794), and in 1802 extended Cornwallis's Permanent Settlement of Bengal (1793), fixing the zamindars' revenue for ever.

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Key terms

  • zamindar
  • peshkash
  • haveli lands
  • chiefs and councils
  • Masulipatnam council
  • Vizagapatam
  • collectors 1794
  • Vizianagaram
  • Vijayarama Raju II
  • Chinna Vijayarama Raju
  • Padmanabham 10 July 1794
  • Colonel Pendergast
  • Narayana Gajapati Raju
  • Cornwallis 1793
  • Permanent Settlement
  • Regulation XXV of 1802
  • mittadar
  • moturpha
  • Madras Estates Land Act 1908
  • Pithapuram
  • Venkatagiri
  • Bobbili
  • Nuzvid

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