Within a few years, there was no zamindari in all of Bengal which was not neck-deep in litigation. There was no investment in land, little by the way of upgradation of tools, methods and processes—-just a surfeit of hapless peasants toiling away supporting effete zamindars, their mistresses and their lawyers. And zamindari became such a socially upscale vocation, that many families who were prospering in trade and industry actually shut down their businesses and acquired zamindaris. They could now live in Calcutta and consume asserting all along that they had never heard of Weber and the Protestant ethic. This love of landed wealth, the love of litigious landed income, the attachment to illusions of status and attendant to all of this, a disdain for trade—-these were perhaps at the root of the disappearance of entrepreneurialism in Bengal.