A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... owners , tenants , and workers , the current land reform program of India properly begins with 1948-1951 . During this period , landmark legislation abolishing intermediary tenures , regulating tenancy , and limiting size of holding was ...
... owners , tenants , and workers , the current land reform program of India properly begins with 1948-1951 . During this period , landmark legislation abolishing intermediary tenures , regulating tenancy , and limiting size of holding was ...
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... owners ( under the Peshwas the Malguzars had no proprietary rights ) . They were analogous to the zamindars of Bengal but settlements were temporary . Later on , as the British territories in India expanded , the permanent settlement ...
... owners ( under the Peshwas the Malguzars had no proprietary rights ) . They were analogous to the zamindars of Bengal but settlements were temporary . Later on , as the British territories in India expanded , the permanent settlement ...
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... owner position . In the ryotwari the ryot arrangement , no intermediary exists between the government and the land- holder . It is a so - called " occupancy tenure " thereby permitting the ryot to inherit , transfer , and otherwise ...
... owner position . In the ryotwari the ryot arrangement , no intermediary exists between the government and the land- holder . It is a so - called " occupancy tenure " thereby permitting the ryot to inherit , transfer , and otherwise ...
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... owners of 1.6 3.3 .4 44.8 5.3 ( 18.0 ) ( 2.1 ) land and agricultural rent receivers Total of agricultural classes ... owner cultivators . The major difference is that in the 1951 Census all cultivators holding right of permanent ...
... owners of 1.6 3.3 .4 44.8 5.3 ( 18.0 ) ( 2.1 ) land and agricultural rent receivers Total of agricultural classes ... owner cultivators . The major difference is that in the 1951 Census all cultivators holding right of permanent ...
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... 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 individual resistance . In the case of the Bhoodan land gifts movement , land reform has ...
... 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 individual resistance . In the case of the Bhoodan land gifts movement , land reform has ...
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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.