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Report of the Land Revenue Commission Bengal Replies to the Commission’s Questionnaire by Government Officers and their Oral Evidence

1941

If we use the term Permanent Settlement to include the law for the protection of raiyats which sprang directly from the legislation of 1795 then it is possible to maintain that the principal gainers from the Permanent Settlement are the raiyats and not the zamindars. [...] The root of the matter seems to be that the Tenants' Party feels that the rights of the zamindars stand in the way of reduction of rent. [...] In a sense then the proper maintenance of the cultivator is the first charge on the land and the rent comes out of the surplus. [...] To calculate the price of the average gross produce and subtract a sum equal to the cost of the cultivators' labour and all the expenses of cultivation is not practicable. [...] He imagined that the grounds of enhancement which were then legal were not the same as the grounds of enhancement nowadays and that the quotation which the Khan Bahadur had made from the Court of Directors' Despatch was their opinion at the time.

government politics public policy
Pages
590
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100001
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Reply by Mr. W. H. Nelson C.S.I. I.C.S. Member Board of Revenue Bengal
1-23 unknown view
Memorandum by Mr. L R. Fawcus CLE. I.C.S. Commissioner Dacca Division
24-32 unknown view
Reply by Mr. F. W. Robertson C.I.E. I.C.S. (Retd.) ex-Divisional Commissioner and ex-Settlement Officer
33-41 unknown view
Memorandum by Rai Bahadur B. B. Mukherjee ex-Director of Land Records and Surveys Bengal
42-47 unknown view
Reply by Rai Kalipada Maitra Bahadur B.C5. (Retd.) Manager of the Estate of the Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad
48-91 unknown view
Reply by Rai J. N. Sircar Bahadur B.A. B.C.S. (Retd.) Manager Cossimbazar Raj Wards’ Estate
92-172 unknown view
General Note Dated the 27th February 1939 by Rai M. N. Gupta Bahadur M.A. B.L. B.C.S. (Retd.)
173-271 unknown view
Reply by Babu Jogesh Chandra Chakrabarty Deputy Collector and Khas Mahal Officer Mymensingh
272-343 unknown view
Reply by Mr. A. E. Porter I.C.S. Collector of Tippera
344-364 unknown view
Reply by Mr. M. M. Stuart I.C.S. Collector of Nadia
365-377 unknown view
Memorandum by Mr. S. K. Dey I.C.S. Additional Collector Dacca
378-406 unknown view
Reply by Mr. S. C. Mitter B.Sc. (Eng.) London A.M.I.E. (Ind.) Director of Industries Bengal
407-422 unknown view
Reply by Mr. M. Carbery M.A. B.Sc D.S.O. M.C. Director of Agriculture Bengal
423-443 unknown view
Reply by Mr. S. C. Majumdar B.Sc M.I.E. Chief Engineer Communications and Works Department Irrigation Branch
444-461 unknown view
Reply by Khan Bahadur Maulvi A. M. Arshad Ali Registrar of Co-operative Societies Bengal
462-478 unknown view
Reply by Khan Bahadur Maulvi Ataur Rahman Retired Assistant Commissioner of Income-tax Calcutta
479-494 unknown view
Reply by the Finance Department of the Government of Bengal
495-587 unknown view