alleryStart learning →Whose economic ideas shaped the early revenue settlement in Maharashtra?
AAdam Smith
BKarl Marx
CDavid Ricardo
DJohn Mill
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. David Ricardo
Officials trained in Ricardian ideas of average rent and taxing the surplus formulated the 1820s settlement.
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