A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... ownership . Ceilings on holdings caused breaking of large holdings but by a priori distribution to relatives . Legislation and the profitability of new technology have encouraged personal cultivation . Consolidation of holdings was slow ...
... ownership . Ceilings on holdings caused breaking of large holdings but by a priori distribution to relatives . Legislation and the profitability of new technology have encouraged personal cultivation . Consolidation of holdings was slow ...
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... ownership . The essential feature of the land 1 / Nanavati and Anjaria point out that partition had the effect of leaving present India with 77 percent of the area , 81 percent of the people , but only 68 percent of the irrigated area ...
... ownership . The essential feature of the land 1 / Nanavati and Anjaria point out that partition had the effect of leaving present India with 77 percent of the area , 81 percent of the people , but only 68 percent of the irrigated area ...
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... ownership that are found in the present - day tenure structure . It is through the medium of the village that it is possible to see the close connection of the revenue system and the tenure system . The Indian State derived most of its ...
... ownership that are found in the present - day tenure structure . It is through the medium of the village that it is possible to see the close connection of the revenue system and the tenure system . The Indian State derived most of its ...
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... ownership and were managed through the village panchayat . The element of private property in land was quite limited and there was a strong implication of stewardship in the land . The Code of Manu provided for very severe fines for ...
... ownership and were managed through the village panchayat . The element of private property in land was quite limited and there was a strong implication of stewardship in the land . The Code of Manu provided for very severe fines for ...
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... important innovation in the revenue system . The recognition of a more subtle form of property right than the absolute ownership concept in the British Isles was in itself notable . And what of the effect of the British revenue system - 9 -
... important innovation in the revenue system . The recognition of a more subtle form of property right than the absolute ownership concept in the British Isles was in itself notable . And what of the effect of the British revenue system - 9 -
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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.