Land Revenue Administration in India (Prescribed for the B.A. Examination)

The distinguishing and essential feature of the assesments of Bombay is that they rest on the principle of adhering to what are known as general considerations " rather than to statistical calculations of the soil the ecnomic conditions of the tract the past revenue history prices and the selling letting and mortgage value of the land. [...] The decennial settlement of the Assam Valley districts being about to expire re-settlement operations were inaugurated in 1902 on a new system known as the soil-unit" system by which the assessment of the land revenue is as far as possible fixed by the people themselves with reference to the popular estimate of the relative values of the different classes of soils and of the relative natural [...] In the case of the remaining tenants who &old; at will no limit is fixed to the discretion of the flaufUord.4n the matter of enhdncement but theprocedure to be followed in ejectment and the grant compensation for improvements legally executed are) provided for by law in respect of both classes of tenants.: The question of the alienation of land on the other' hand has in the Punjab taken a [...] The distribution of the land among the several classes the character of the people and the comparative absence of professional money-lenders of an alien class have rendered unnecessary any legislation or measures directed against the acquisition of land by non-agricultural classes.21 The status and rights of the cultivators in zamindari estates were not in the past everywhere clear though in m [...] The Aet f urther makes provision for the maintenance by the land-holder of irrigation works the survey of estates the preparation of a record-of-rights and the settlement of rents and for the ousting of the original jurisdiction of civil c4 )111'N in disputes between land-holders 1111(1 l'yOt S. imniedirete (.1ect of the Act in some district.