A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... village were rooted in antiquity ; assertion of new rights was done with hesitance . The land reform laws were largely conferred upon , rather than stemming from , the peasants . On the assumption that the role of foreign assistance in ...
... village were rooted in antiquity ; assertion of new rights was done with hesitance . The land reform laws were largely conferred upon , rather than stemming from , the peasants . On the assumption that the role of foreign assistance in ...
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... village . The village itself was preceded - 2 - Land Tenure Structure: Development Pre-Independence.
... village . The village itself was preceded - 2 - Land Tenure Structure: Development Pre-Independence.
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United States. Agency for International Development. settlement was the village . The village itself was preceded by tribal communes which did not recognize individual rights in land within the clan . When the clan eventually outgrew the ...
United States. Agency for International Development. settlement was the village . The village itself was preceded by tribal communes which did not recognize individual rights in land within the clan . When the clan eventually outgrew the ...
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... 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 irresponsible cultivation . The village ...
... 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 irresponsible cultivation . The village ...
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... village retained its position of primacy as the source of proprietary rights . The decline of the Muslim and the ascendency of the Mahratta during the late 17th and early 18th century had very little effect on the tenure structure ...
... village retained its position of primacy as the source of proprietary rights . The decline of the Muslim and the ascendency of the Mahratta during the late 17th and early 18th century had very little effect on the tenure structure ...
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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.