Landlords or Zamindars were recognised as the owners of the land. They were given hereditary rights of succession of the lands under them. The amount to be paid by the landlords was fixed. It was agreed that this would not increase in future (permanent in nature).
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophers believed that society could best achieve progress through "rational thought and pragmatism", since these thinkers called into question the blind faith many people had in monarchy and God.
