DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2020.v08i02.006

Pages: 86-88

The izaradari/revenue farming system in India introduced during the medieval period and later revived under the British and the Marathas and subsequently gets meta-morphed when put into application in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The paper attempts to throw light on the evolution and characteristics of izaradari/revenue farming system in Gaekwad State of Baroda in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This was the time when the administration of the Baroda State was in its nascent stage. Hence the land revenue collection had not yet been formed. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Baroda State had witnessed a period of significant changes and rapid experimentation in the revenue administration.