Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chapter 30
- The Land and the People
- Increase in population led to increase in
unemployment, deforestation, and
extensive irrigation.
- Classes
- Peasants = Most of population, taxes to
government, interest to money lenders, and
rent to land owners.
- Land owners = government protects them from villiage
money lenders to maharajahs
- maharajahs = ruling princes who
owned huge tracts of land
- Indians spoke many different
languages
- Hindus = 1/4 of the population of India, but are the
majority in the northwest and in East Bengal