ABSTRACT
The manorial system, which arose under the pressure of a strong military interest in connection with the economic, and was originally directed toward using dependent land and dependent labor force to support an upper class life, showed a strong tendency to develop in a capitalistic direction. This tendency manifested itself in the two forms of the plantation and estate economy. The motivating force in connection with the breakdown of the manorial system operated in the first place from within the manor and was primarily economic in character. However, these considerations either failed to bring about the dissolution of the manorial system, or if they did it was done in accordance with the interests of the lords who expropriated the tenants and used the land to establish large farming enterprises. In India, the manorial system still persists; indeed it first arose in a secondary manner out of the practice of tax farming by the fisc.
