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Land Revenue Policy of the Indian Government

1920

The circumstances which led to the prepartion of these reports and to the promulgation of the views of the Government of India are explained in the opening paragraphs Of the Resolution. [...] where the landlord pays the land revenue to the State whether he cultivates the land himself or by means of rent-paying tenants ; and the ryotwari tracts where the cultivator pays directly to the State 8. The zemindari tenure is the prevailing form of land tenure in the Central Provinces the North-Western Provinces and Oudh and the Punjab. [...] It is dependent upon a number of varying factors such as the industry and resources of the cultivator the nature of the crop the capacity security and situation of the holding and the chance of the seasons. [...] The aim of local taxation is the benefit of the community and the spread of elementary education amongst the cultivating classes is the surest preventive of the carelessness which allows so large a proportion of the increased value that settled government and improvedOF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT. [...] The first of these is the pitch of enhancement ; the second is the levy of the same assessment in bad years as in good on the assumption that savings in the one will meet the losses of the other ; the third is the effect of local deteriortion upon land revenue payments.32 LAND REVENUE POLICY INDIA.
government politics public policy
Pages
299
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146191
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Cover
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I.—India
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Chapter II. —Summary of Replies of the Local Governments
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Chapter III. —Bengal
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Chapter IV. —The North-Western Provinces and Oudh
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Chapter V.—The Punjab
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Chapter VI.—The Central Provinces
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Chapter VII.—Madras
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Chapter VIII —Bombay
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Glossary of Vernacular Terms
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Index
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Backmatter
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