A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... ( revenue ) system , that land reform became not the cutting edge of major social and economic revolution but a set of conscientiously legislated and executed regulations . The major types of legislation were : abolition of intermediary ...
... ( revenue ) system , that land reform became not the cutting edge of major social and economic revolution but a set of conscientiously legislated and executed regulations . The major types of legislation were : abolition of intermediary ...
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... revenue system and the tenure system . The Indian State derived most of its revenue from the land and hence the village became the agency of collection . During the Hindu period , the 1 / Fifteen hundred B.C. is the approximate date ...
... revenue system and the tenure system . The Indian State derived most of its revenue from the land and hence the village became the agency of collection . During the Hindu period , the 1 / Fifteen hundred B.C. is the approximate date ...
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... land measurement and classification . The settlement was made specifically in terms of the individual ryots ( peasants ) recognizing no interests between the government and the cultivator , even when the revenue was collected through a ...
... land measurement and classification . The settlement was made specifically in terms of the individual ryots ( peasants ) recognizing no interests between the government and the cultivator , even when the revenue was collected through a ...
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... land for which he was responsible in revenue - collection . The end result was a substantial diminution of the rights of the cultivators or ryots . The permanently settled system is not synonymous with the zamindari tenure system , but ...
... land for which he was responsible in revenue - collection . The end result was a substantial diminution of the rights of the cultivators or ryots . The permanently settled system is not synonymous with the zamindari tenure system , but ...
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... land . Later ( 1855 ) a survey and resettlement were made in an effort to produce a more equitable system but in ... revenue system was again revised under the Bombay Revenue Code of 1879 the ryots . which provided for assessments ...
... land . Later ( 1855 ) a survey and resettlement were made in an effort to produce a more equitable system but in ... revenue system was again revised under the Bombay Revenue Code of 1879 the ryots . which provided for assessments ...
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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.