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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record October 1901

1901

These come mainly under five heads : the establishment of a more definite system for the suspension and remission of the land revenue in the case of severe failure of crops ; the siplification and development of the rules for making advances and loans to agriculturists ; the creation of agricultural banks ; remedies for the indebtedness of the peasantry in the Bombay Presidency ; and agricultur [...] The results of their inquiry are foreshadowed in the remarks made by the Commission after narrating the high ratios the total population reached in certain districts and the steady rise in the numbers on relief uninfluenced by the harvesting of the spring crops and the setting in of the rains. [...] To take only a few : the rush on the works in the Buldana district of Berar and in the Chattisgarh division of the Central Provinces and the complete disorganization of those works; the failure to open works at an early period of the distress in the Central Provinces ; in Bombay the unreadiness of the Public Works Department in nearly all districts/ the system of weekly instead of daily payments [...] The resolution concludes : The Commission makes a series of important suggestions as to the improvement of the condition of the agricultural classes recommends a greater elasticity of revenue collection generally and particularly in the Bombay Deccan the establishment of agricultural banks the encouragement of land improvement the expediture of a larger share of State funds on irrigation [...] The framing of the first of these was a task requiring great acumen a nice apprciation of the exact meanings of words and phrases and the capacity to reduce to practice the theories of the logicians as to the relevancy of facts and as to the admissbility of inferences and presumptions.
government politics public policy
Pages
221
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120018
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