A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... Congress Committee and the machinery of the Five Year Plans , Delhi sought to unify the land reform measures that were constitutionally the juris- diction of the states . After a year or two of speechmaking , major enactments abolishing ...
... Congress Committee and the machinery of the Five Year Plans , Delhi sought to unify the land reform measures that were constitutionally the juris- diction of the states . After a year or two of speechmaking , major enactments abolishing ...
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... Congress party . Since it became the government on Independence , the Congress party is politically most responsible for the shaping of land reform in India . Land reform was an important plank in the Congress platform and in the First ...
... Congress party . Since it became the government on Independence , the Congress party is politically most responsible for the shaping of land reform in India . Land reform was an important plank in the Congress platform and in the First ...
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... Congress party . Although land reform has been politically opposed by various land owner groups from time to time , legislation has been widely passed . Obstacles to land reform have more commonly been in the form of local and ...
... Congress party . Although land reform has been politically opposed by various land owner groups from time to time , legislation has been widely passed . Obstacles to land reform have more commonly been in the form of local and ...
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... Congress Committee , integrated into the national develop- ment plans by Congress dominated central government and initiated by State governments most of which initially at least were Congress . In India , land reform was an ...
... Congress Committee , integrated into the national develop- ment plans by Congress dominated central government and initiated by State governments most of which initially at least were Congress . In India , land reform was an ...
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... Congress Committee early in the history of the programs clearly hold out an expectation of improved productivity . But land reform is a distributive measure . Measuring the relationship between reform and production is extremely ...
... Congress Committee early in the history of the programs clearly hold out an expectation of improved productivity . But land reform is a distributive measure . Measuring the relationship between reform and production is extremely ...
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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.