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Report of the Land Revenue Commission Bengal Volume III Landholders’ Replies to the Questionnaire Issued by the Land Revenue Commission and their Oral Evidence

1940

Further the whole of the income—the correctness of the percentage calculated is not admitted—does not go to the coffers of the zamindars. [...] The middle classes are like the pillars of the State and if they are pulled down great will be the fall of the superstructure for they will be communists and will desire the downfall of the Government. [...] It should vary according to the money value of the produce and the needs of the State from time to time and the period of revision should be 30 years. [...] Density of population reclamation of almost the whole of the waste lands the smallness of holdings the primitive mode of cultivation laws of inheritance and lack of a spirit of co-operation home-sickness laziness and prejudice of the cultivators high rate of interest and lack of facility in obtaining credit on easy terms extrvagance lack of marketing facilities ignorance and illiterac [...] This unsatisfactory result seems to be due partly to the ignorance and illiteracy of agriculturists and partly to the formalities of the law great publicity unlimited liability and forcible measures for the realisation of the debt.

government politics public policy
Pages
549
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100001
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Reply by the Bakarganj Landholders’ Association
1-29 unknown view
Reply by the Bankura Landholders’ Association
30-36 unknown view
Reply by the Bengal Landholders’ Association
37-108 unknown view
Reply by the British Indian Association
109-357 unknown view
Oral evidence of the British Indian Association 13th and 14th March 1939
358-378 unknown view
Reply by the Burdwan Landholders’ Association
379-426 unknown view
Reply by the Chittagong Landholders’ Association
427-432 unknown view
Reply by the Dinajpur Landholders’ Association
433-443 unknown view
Reply by the East Bengal Landholders’ Association Dacca
444-458 unknown view
Reply by the Faridpur Landholders’ Association
459-476 unknown view
Reply by the Hooghly Landholders’ Association
477-519 unknown view
Reply by the Howrah Landholders’ Association
520-544 unknown view
Appendix “A”
545-546 unknown view