cover image: Report of the Land Revenue Commission  Bengal  Replies to the Commission’s Questionnaire by the Associations Concerned with Tenants  Bar Associations  etc.  and their Oral Evidence

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Report of the Land Revenue Commission Bengal Replies to the Commission’s Questionnaire by the Associations Concerned with Tenants Bar Associations etc. and their Oral Evidence

1941

it must be remembered that any satisfactory solution of the problem will lead to two things (1) relief of the cultivator of the burdca of a century and a half of rack-renting and (2) the increase of the revenue of the State so as to enable it to put into effect large scale.schemes for the rehabilitation of agriculture. [...] The second concerns the intentions of the authors of the settlement in regard to the status and interests of the peasantry. [...] The causes of this failure may be ascribed in a great degree to the error of assuming at the time of making the Permanent Settlement that the rights of all parties claiming an interest in the land were sufficiently established by usage to enable the Courts to protect individual rights; and still more to the measures which declared. [...] On the contrary we are of opinion ttat such a measure so far from being in any way beneficial to the police of the district would be a source of great oppression to the lower class of the inhabitants and of innumerable complaints to the magitrtte we have reason to believe that the zamindars not only in many instances encourage and harbour dacoits but frequently partake of the property plun [...] The growing pressure of the population on the land combined with fluctuation of prices to place the cultivator at the mercy both of the landlord and of the moneylender.
government politics public policy
Pages
596
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100001
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Associations Concerned with Tenants
1-93 unknown view
Bar Associations
94-326 unknown view
Anjuman Associations
327-348 unknown view
Political Parties
349-374 unknown view
Miscellaneous
375-592 unknown view