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Why do you think were the tribal people unable to pay the land revenue demanded by the government?

Since the government handed over tracts of land to the zamindars and cultivators and the tribals were consequently forced to work on these lands, the evicted tribal people had to pay very amounts of revenue. They often had to borrow money from moneylenders to pay this amount but were most of the times compelled to sell off their lands to the moneylenders because they were unable to pay the land revenue.


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