A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... interest in property , chiefly with respect to the arable land . The degree and form of communal interest varied : for example , in some cases , the right to cultivation of a plot was heritable , whereas , other arrangements provided ...
... interest in property , chiefly with respect to the arable land . The degree and form of communal interest varied : for example , in some cases , the right to cultivation of a plot was heritable , whereas , other arrangements provided ...
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... interests between the government and the cultivator , even when the revenue was collected through a village headman or zamindar . 1 / See M. S. Randhawa . Longmans Ltd. Rev. ed . 1951 . Developing village India . Bombay , Orient ...
... interests between the government and the cultivator , even when the revenue was collected through a village headman or zamindar . 1 / See M. S. Randhawa . Longmans Ltd. Rev. ed . 1951 . Developing village India . Bombay , Orient ...
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... interest . Thus , for over 3,000 years the village retained its position of primacy as the source of proprietary rights ... interests of the people . 1 / Romesh Dutt , Early British rule , p . 39. [ Brackets own ] Until late in the 18th ...
... interest . Thus , for over 3,000 years the village retained its position of primacy as the source of proprietary rights ... interests of the people . 1 / Romesh Dutt , Early British rule , p . 39. [ Brackets own ] Until late in the 18th ...
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... interest charges on rent arrears . From the brief review of the period of British administration above at least five factors may be viewed as significant in their effects on India's tenure structure and land problems at the time of ...
... interest charges on rent arrears . From the brief review of the period of British administration above at least five factors may be viewed as significant in their effects on India's tenure structure and land problems at the time of ...
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... interest and principal payments on rent in arrears , represent examples of the government's efforts to reduce hardship on the ryots . Although the measures were usually local , weak , and unaccompanied by sufficient complementary ...
... interest and principal payments on rent in arrears , represent examples of the government's efforts to reduce hardship on the ryots . Although the measures were usually local , weak , and unaccompanied by sufficient complementary ...
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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.