A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... problems of quasi - tenants remain . Widespread evasion of tenancy legislation has taken place but it has had a measure of success in reducing absentee ownership . Ceilings on holdings caused breaking of large holdings but by a priori ...
... problems of quasi - tenants remain . Widespread evasion of tenancy legislation has taken place but it has had a measure of success in reducing absentee ownership . Ceilings on holdings caused breaking of large holdings but by a priori ...
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... problem until the 1930's ; even in the report of the Royal Commission on Agriculture , 1 / there is a conspicuous absence of any reference to land policy . A most important feature of the tenure development in India is its relationship ...
... problem until the 1930's ; even in the report of the Royal Commission on Agriculture , 1 / there is a conspicuous absence of any reference to land policy . A most important feature of the tenure development in India is its relationship ...
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... problems at the time of Independence . ( 1 ) Zamindar acquisition of property rights : Under the British , the one who had been strictly a revenue - collector under the Moghul became the proprietor , and accorded rights and privileges ...
... problems at the time of Independence . ( 1 ) Zamindar acquisition of property rights : Under the British , the one who had been strictly a revenue - collector under the Moghul became the proprietor , and accorded rights and privileges ...
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... problems and provided the basis for some of India's present reform measures . Land Resources Shortly after ... problems in post Independence India , see S. Thirumalai . Post War Agricultural Problems and Policies in India , esp . Chapter ...
... problems and provided the basis for some of India's present reform measures . Land Resources Shortly after ... problems in post Independence India , see S. Thirumalai . Post War Agricultural Problems and Policies in India , esp . Chapter ...
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... problems agriculture than a focus on production economies would provide . Population and Employment A large and growing Indian population was a major factor in national policy . Between 1891 , when the first census was taken , and 1921 ...
... problems agriculture than a focus on production economies would provide . Population and Employment A large and growing Indian population was a major factor in national policy . Between 1891 , when the first census was taken , and 1921 ...
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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.