How the colonial and nationalist legacy shaped the nature of post-colonial Indian state

MHI-04: POLITICAL STRUCTURES IN INDIA

Course Code: MHI-04

Assignment Code: MHI-04/AST/TMA/2016-17

Total Marks: 100

Q9:- Explain how the colonial and nationalist legacy shaped the nature of post-colonial Indian state.

The colonial state was to maximize the appropriation of agrarian surplus through land – revenue. Being an agrarian economy, land revenue continued to be the main source to be exploited. The changes in the cropping pattern and the attempts to expend irrigation were undertaken partly to meet the revenue demands of the colonial state. Gradually, however, there was a change in the composition of revenue resources of the colonial state and the significance of land revenue in government tax structure declined in proportion.

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