A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... British era , and those that preceded it , contained many acts affecting the tenure status of the Indian owners , tenants , and workers , the current land reform program of India properly begins with 1948-1951 . During this period ...
... British era , and those that preceded it , contained many acts affecting the tenure status of the Indian owners , tenants , and workers , the current land reform program of India properly begins with 1948-1951 . During this period ...
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... British era . During the Hindu period ( approximately 1500 B.C. 1 / to 1200 A.D. ) , the land was not considered as property of the King , but the property of village . made to the King by the villages . Payment of tax in kind was The ...
... British era . During the Hindu period ( approximately 1500 B.C. 1 / to 1200 A.D. ) , the land was not considered as property of the King , but the property of village . made to the King by the villages . Payment of tax in kind was The ...
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... British , the village still preserves its primacy and recently has been the focus of several programs for economic development . 1 / It can be said that , in general , the Muslim rule had comparatively little influence on the status of ...
... British , the village still preserves its primacy and recently has been the focus of several programs for economic development . 1 / It can be said that , in general , the Muslim rule had comparatively little influence on the status of ...
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... British . British rule . Near the end of the year 1600 , Queen Elizabeth char- tered the British East India Company . From that time until the company became directly responsible to the Crown in 1784 , India experienced a dramatic ...
... British . British rule . Near the end of the year 1600 , Queen Elizabeth char- tered the British East India Company . From that time until the company became directly responsible to the Crown in 1784 , India experienced a dramatic ...
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... British public . The concepts are necessary to an explanation of the British India revenue system , ( 1 ) the permanently settled estate and ( 2 ) the temporarily settled estate . Under the first type of estate revenue ( tax ) ...
... British public . The concepts are necessary to an explanation of the British India revenue system , ( 1 ) the permanently settled estate and ( 2 ) the temporarily settled estate . Under the first type of estate revenue ( tax ) ...
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administration agrarian reforms Agric agricultural amended Andhra Pradesh Bihar Land Reforms Bombay British rule caste ceilings century classes compensation Congress consolidation of holdings cooperative crops cultivators Delhi districts Econ economic effect enactment ex-intermediaries farmers Five Year Plan Government of India Gujarat Implementation of Land improved income distribution increase independence Indian Journ inputs intermediary interests irrigation K. B. Sahay Kerala khas possession land reform legislation land reform program Land Reforms Act land revenue land tenure landholding landless laborers landlords landowners Madhya Pradesh Madras Maharashtra ment million acres moneylenders Mysore Orissa Oudh output owners ownership payment peasant peasantry percent period Planning Commission political population production Punjab raiyat Rajasthan records redistribution reform in India region rent rights in land Rural India ryotwari Section sector security of tenure social Survey talukdars tenants tenure-holders Thorner Uttar Pradesh village West Bengal Zamindari Abolition zamindars
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Page 54 - It is hard to think of anything more likely to lift up the spirits of masses of depressed or "backward" folk. Carried out properly, such a step might even lead to a real burst of enthusiasm, a genuine release of energy among the working peasantry. Their rights in land would increase and so would their share of the land's product. They would forthwith want more food, clothing and non-luxury housing materials ; in time they would want other commodities, some of the better things of life, and more education...
Page 31 - These recommendations relate to: — (1) Abolition of Intermediaries; (2) Tenancy reforms, eg, security of tenure to the tenants, provision of fair rents and a right of purchase for the tenants; (3) Fixation of ceiling on land holding and the distribution of the surplus land; (4) Improvement of the conditions of the agricultural workers; and (5) Co-operative organisation of agriculture with the ultimate objective of cooperative village management.