Charles Cornwallis
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Governor-General of Bengal
As Governor-General, he oversaw the 1793 Permanent Settlement framework that fixed land revenue and formalized zamindar property rights under Company rule.
Late eighteenth-century East India Company state-building in Bengal.
Policies associated with his administration transformed agrarian power, landlord-cultivator relations, and colonial revenue governance in Bengal.
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