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Who owned India's land? The three revenue experiments that broke the peasant
Bengal's tax-collectors became landlords, Madras dealt directly with the peasant, the north taxed whole villages. Three revenue experiments, one verdict: the peasant paid for the empire.
27 September 2026 · 24 min read