A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... period was toward equality . The concentration ratio of size of operating units fell from .67 to .57 by 1961 . Effects on productivity and income are indirect so it is difficult to assign them to land reform . Productivity and ...
... period was toward equality . The concentration ratio of size of operating units fell from .67 to .57 by 1961 . Effects on productivity and income are indirect so it is difficult to assign them to land reform . Productivity and ...
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... period , landmark legislation abolishing intermediary tenures , regulating tenancy , and limiting size of holding was passed in many states . In some Land reform in independent India is not easily tied to particular dates because land ...
... period , landmark legislation abolishing intermediary tenures , regulating tenancy , and limiting size of holding was passed in many states . In some Land reform in independent India is not easily tied to particular dates because land ...
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... period prior to about the An evaluation of / progress of land reform requires an understanding of conditions existing before that time . Following is a brief summary of the development of the Indian land tenure system . Land Tenure ...
... period prior to about the An evaluation of / progress of land reform requires an understanding of conditions existing before that time . Following is a brief summary of the development of the Indian land tenure system . Land Tenure ...
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... period ( approximately 1500 B.C. 1 / to 1200 A.D. ) , the land was not considered as property of the King , but the property of village . made to the King by the villages . Payment of tax in kind was The amount of the tax was usually ...
... period ( approximately 1500 B.C. 1 / to 1200 A.D. ) , the land was not considered as property of the King , but the property of village . made to the King by the villages . Payment of tax in kind was The amount of the tax was usually ...
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... period of political upheaval the weakening of the central government permitted some encroachments on the rights of the ryot . In this respect , there was some virtue to the orderly treatment of property accorded to the British . British ...
... period of political upheaval the weakening of the central government permitted some encroachments on the rights of the ryot . In this respect , there was some virtue to the orderly treatment of property accorded to the British . British ...
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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.