Historically Pinpoint the Socio-Economic Surroundings of Undivided Cuttack District in Colonial Orissa

Abstract

From the end of the eighteenth century, Orissa began to experience different socio-economic change that transformed patterns of production and consumption in the Cuttack region. These were the rise of colonial rule and the formally colonized by the British changed the markets for goods, capital and labour. Land Revenue was one of the traditional mainstays of British Indian Finance. 1 The land revenue administration and rent structure was deeply linked with the tenurial rights and the intermediate interest groups. The traditional tenurial expression of property rights was one of the factors in differentiation of socioeconomic status of the owner cultivator and the farmer.