After India became independent, Nehru and his policy advisors embarked on a programme of planned development that focused on agrarian reform as well as industrialisation. The policymakers were responding to the dismal agricultural situation in India at that time. This was marked by low productivity, dependence on imported food grains, and the intense poverty of a large section of the rural population.

The abolition of the zamindari system was one of the important steps adopted by the Nehru government to change the agricultural structure of Indian villages. Select a statement which can be considered an appropriate critique of this legislation.

The abolition of the zamindari system made landlords poor and marginalized. The abolition of the zamindari system only removed the top layer of landlords, but landlords still persisted. The abolition of the zamindari system killed the agricultural structure in India> The abolition of the Zamindari system created a new Raiyatwari system.

The abolition of the zamindari system only removed the top layer of landlords, but landlords still persisted.

The abolition of the Zamindari system did not happen without a struggle, of course, but ultimately the effect was to strengthen the position of the actual landholders and cultivators at the local level. However, zamindari abolition did not wipe out landlordism or the tenancy or sharecropping systems, which continued in many areas. It only removed the top layer of landlords in the multi-layered agrarian structure.