A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... zamindar . 1 / See M. S. Randhawa . Longmans Ltd. Rev. ed . 1951 . Developing village India . Bombay , Orient Localization of economic development efforts is reflected in the Intensive Agricultural District Programme begun in the early ...
... zamindar . 1 / See M. S. Randhawa . Longmans Ltd. Rev. ed . 1951 . Developing village India . Bombay , Orient Localization of economic development efforts is reflected in the Intensive Agricultural District Programme begun in the early ...
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... zamindars " who received a portion of the revenue , usually about 1/11 . Under the Muslim regime these zamindars were held strictly to the position of revenue- collectors ; however , in keeping with landed estate system in England , the ...
... zamindars " who received a portion of the revenue , usually about 1/11 . Under the Muslim regime these zamindars were held strictly to the position of revenue- collectors ; however , in keeping with landed estate system in England , the ...
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... zamindar's private lands . In between these two grades was the large class of " khud - kasht " tenants who were permanent resident cultivators and who had held the land for generations . Since the State retained the right to revise ...
... zamindar's private lands . In between these two grades was the large class of " khud - kasht " tenants who were permanent resident cultivators and who had held the land for generations . Since the State retained the right to revise ...
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... 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 comparable to an English landlord . The result ...
... 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 comparable to an English landlord . The result ...
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... zamindar rather than occupant . In the temporary settlement and ryotwari areas , record systems existed but often were poorly kept and often , at the village level , completely useless . The quality of records deteriorated after ...
... zamindar rather than occupant . In the temporary settlement and ryotwari areas , record systems existed but often were poorly kept and often , at the village level , completely useless . The quality of records deteriorated after ...
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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.