Consider the following statements about the Bengal countryside at the time of the Permanent Settlement: 1. The zamindars’ troops were disbanded. 2. Within the villages, the power of jotedars was more effective than that of zamindars. 3. The East India Company made a rule that the property of women would not be taken over. 4. Adhiyars were sharecroppers on the land owned by bargadars.
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