...long-term policy required that India had to undergo a complete agrarian revolution: The Zamindaree and the Ryotwar were both of them agrarian revolutions,...caricature of English landlordism, the other of French peasant proprietorship; but pernicious, both combining the most contradictory character— both made...

...long-term policy required that India had to undergo a complete agrarian revolution: The Zamindaree and the Ryotwar were both of them agrarian revolutions,...caricature of English landlordism, the other of French peasant proprietorship; but pernicious, both combining the most contradictory character - both made...

...and that of the agricultural proletariat. As Marx wrote in 1853: "The Zemindari and Ryotwari system were both of them agrarian revolutions effected by...aristocratic, the other democratic; the one a caricature of the English landlordism, the other of French peasantproprietorship; but pernicious, both combining...