A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... landlord over the 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 ...
... landlord over the 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 ...
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... landlords , moneylenders , and by the impersonal forces of the market . What is even more important for the purpose here is to recognize the tenuous claim to ownership rights held by the present landholders . The autonomy and isolation ...
... landlords , moneylenders , and by the impersonal forces of the market . What is even more important for the purpose here is to recognize the tenuous claim to ownership rights held by the present landholders . The autonomy and isolation ...
Page 13
... landlord and the State . Under the ryotwari system every registered holder of land was recognized as its proprietor , and thus could sub - let or transfer it . He was assured of permanent tenure as long as he paid his taxes . Most of ...
... landlord and the State . Under the ryotwari system every registered holder of land was recognized as its proprietor , and thus could sub - let or transfer it . He was assured of permanent tenure as long as he paid his taxes . Most of ...
Page 14
... landlords almost unrestricted power to seize the property of tenants and even to arrest the tenants without court proceedings in event that rent payments were in arrears . Regulation V of 1812 somewhat modified the earlier law but still ...
... landlords almost unrestricted power to seize the property of tenants and even to arrest the tenants without court proceedings in event that rent payments were in arrears . Regulation V of 1812 somewhat modified the earlier law but still ...
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... landlord . The result was a decline in the rights of the cultivator and an opening for maximum rent expropriation by the landlord . ( 2 ) Nature of the revenue system : The British fiscal system in India was not organized for the ...
... landlord . The result was a decline in the rights of the cultivator and an opening for maximum rent expropriation by the landlord . ( 2 ) Nature of the revenue system : The British fiscal system in India was not organized for the ...
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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.