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Volume : III, Issue : VII, August - 2013 Revenue Experiment :pro And Anti-trends On Village Lease Settlement In Early Eighteenth Century Tamil Country G. Rengaraju Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Based on the exhaustive report of Hodgson, a Member of the Board of Revenue who examined the local
revenue system, the Government directed the introduction of Villlage Lease Settlement from 1808 to 1809 , a
system of village –rents for three years -Triennial Lease Settlement (faslis 1218-1220). The rates were finally fixed
in April 1809 due to the difficulty in finding figure and because of the fluctuation of revenue from year to year. The
system was evidently considered satisfactory enough. Hence in 1811 the Government ordered for the introduction
of a decennial village –rent intending thus to pave the way for the establishment of permanent leases. The Court of
Directors, on learning of these arrangements , strongly disapproved and directed that the system of Village Lease
Settlement should be withheld. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : G. Rengaraju, (2013). Revenue Experiment :pro And Anti-trends On Village Lease Settlement In Early Eighteenth Century Tamil Country. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. VII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2696.pdf References : - Collector of Trichinopoly, letter, to the Board, 30 November1806
- Board of Revenue Consultations, 25 June 1808
- Board of Revenue, letter , to the Madras Government, 25 May 1808.
- Report of the Board to the Fort. St. George, 25 April 1808; Fifth Report from the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company, Vol.III, London, 28 July 1812, p. 434.
- Paden Powell, P.H., The Land System of British India, New Haven, 1956, p. 27.
- Hodgson's Report on the Province of Tinnevelly, 24 September 1804, para 109
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