British Land Policy in U.P. in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century

The rule of the East India Company was established, in 1801-1803, over about two-thirds of the area now coming under the State of Uttar Pradesh. The Company had already put into force, in Bengal, the Permanent Settlement and cheated there a class of land-owners, who were expected to improve agriculture and to pay regularly a fixed amount of land revenue to the Government.