Ryotwari under Alexander Read and Thomas Munro in Madras, then Bombay: survey and assessment, pattas to ryots, revenue paid directly to the state, periodic revision
Whole chapter · 18–28 focused hours
Company administration and colonial economy
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Exclude current economic policy and independent India’s institutions; post-1858 press examples stay here to avoid a second press budget.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
Where to study this topic
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 3: Ruling the Countryside ↗
ch. 3 Ruling the Countryside, The Munro system, pp. 4-5 (printed 29-30)
- Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 9 Colonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives ↗
Theme 9 Colonialism and the Countryside, 3.2 A new revenue system, pp. 21-22 (printed 247-248)
- UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗
heading: Economic Policies of The British
- History Syllabus (Drishti IAS, Delhi branch) ↗
Paper 2, item 4
Whole chapter reading
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 2: From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power ↗
The administrative changes after conquest
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 3: Ruling the Countryside ↗
Land revenue, cultivation and the indigo case
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 6: Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation ↗
Colonial education debates and institutions
- Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 9 Colonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives ↗
Bengal zamindars and revenue administration; Deccan credit and revenue cases. Read Santhal resistance with the resistance chapter.
- Social Changes ↗
Sections 18.3–18.4, education policy and press
- India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗
Chapters 7–8, economic criticism and press freedom; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.
Book required - Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 3, chapters 1–3; appendices 3–4 as targeted reference; study only material not covered by the selected school-text passages.
Book required - Courseware on Indian Polity, 8th edition (M. Laxmikanth) ↗
Chapter 1: Company-era Acts only; one historical chronology shared with Polity
Book required · Supplementary