Q.Ryotwari system was initially introduced in :

This concept describes the overall character of the Indian economy under British rule. India functioned as a feeder economy for Britain: it supplied raw materials (raw cotton, jute, indigo and others) to British factories and, in turn, served as a large market for British manufactured goods, especially machine-made textiles. This relationship shaped almost every other feature of the colonial economy discussed in this chapter — the neglect of food-crop agriculture in favour of cash crops, the decline of Indian handicrafts in the face of British imports, the narrow and lopsided pattern of modern industrial growth, and the design of railways and ports mainly to serve e …