sentences:  In times of prosperity, the headmen and zamindars generally obliged.However, since the East India Company had received the "Diwani" or right to collect the tax, many of the tax demands increased and the local landlords and headmen were unable to pay both the ascetics and the English.Crop failures, and famine, which killed ten million people or an estimated one-third of the population of Bengal compounded the problems since much of the arable land lay fallow.