What was the other name of the Bombay Deccan revenue system of the 1820s? Mention any three features of it.
The revenue system introduced by the British Government in the Bombay Deccan was called as the Ryotwari Settlement. It had the following features: The revenue was directly settled with the peasant or the ryot. It estimated the average income from different types of soil. It also assessed the revenue-paying capacity of the ryot. It fixed a proportionate amount of the revenue as the share of the state.
