Read the passage and answer the questions below: India's economy under the British colonial rule remained fundamentally agrarian about 85 per cent of the country's population lived mostly in villages and derived livelihood directly or indirectly from agriculture. However, despite being the occupation of such a large population, the agricultural sector continued to experience stagnation and, not infrequently, unusual deterioration. Agricultural productility became low though, in absolute terms, the sector experienced some growth due to the expansion of the aggregate area under cultivation.... Show more

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India's economy under the British colonial rule remained fundamentally agrarian about 85 per cent of the country's population lived mostly in villages and derived livelihood directly or indirectly from agriculture. However, despite being the occupation of such a large population, the agricultural sector continued to experience stagnation and, not infrequently, unusual deterioration. Agricultural productility became low though, in absolute terms, the sector experienced some growth due to the expansion of the aggregate area under cultivation. This stagnation in the agricultural sector was caused mainly because of the various systems of land settlement that were introduced by the colonial government. Particularly, under the zamindari system which was implemented in the then Bengal Presidency comprising parts of India's present day eastern states.    

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