a)In this system of cultivation the planters produced indigo in the lands that he controlled directly.
b)He either bought the land or rented it from the zamindars.
c)Under nij cultivation the cultivator grew indigo by employing hired laborers.
a. Ryotwari Settlement:
Realizing the disadvantages of the
Permanent Settlement was also due to
administrative difficulties the East India
Company introduced settlement in other
parts of India which were quite different
from the line adopted in Bengal, Bihar and
Orissa.
In the Deccan, for example, new land
settlement was introduced which came to
be known as the Ryotwari Settlement.
In this system settlement of land was
directly made between the government
and the ryot, i.e., the cultivators or
tenants.