16. • Zamindari system was introduced by Lord Cornwallis
through Permanent Settlement during the British
Period. Under the system Zamindar was the landlord
of an area and he had to pay a fixed sum of land
revenue to the State which he collected from the
peasants.
17.
18. • In India, the Panchayat Raj now functions as a system of governance
in which gram panchayats are the basic units of local administration.
The system has three levels:
1. Gram Panchayat (village level)
2. Mandal Perished or Block Samite or Panchayat Samite (block
level)
3. Zila Perished (district level)