While many zamindars were facing a crisis at the end of the eighteenth century, a group of rich peasants was consolidating their position in the villages. In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal, we have a vivid description of this class of rich peasants known as jotedars.

In the survey of which district of North Bengal by Francis Buchanan, we have a vivid description of this class of rich peasants known as jotedars?

Dinajpur

In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal, we have a vivid description of this class of rich peasants known as jotedars.