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The Present Condition of India A Study in Social Relationships

1939

The Congress will be unable to avoid the implications of the class struggle as is exemplified by the present struggle in Cawnpore and the recent decision of the U. P. lanowners to organise to protect their interests. [...] But it must be remembered that on ryotwari land the Zemindar is a peasant proprietor though the weight of land revenue and the alienation of land through debt is making even the lot of the peasants of this kind very miserable.' The Report of the U. P. Provincial Congress Committee issued in to' is still worth studying. [...] The very foundations of rural economy were shaken; even the privileged and occThe Zemindari System.—All authorities agree that during the Hindu and Mohammedan periods the legal ownership of the land belonged either to the State or to the cultivator or to the village community. [...] Revenue farmers were found all over the Mogul Empire but with the decline of the Empire and the consequent weakness of the central government they grew in number and made themselves the virtual owners of the land under their control. [...] Is it to the interest of the Congress that under its rule the illegal violence of the Zemindars' men and the legal violence of the State should unite to suppress the peasant movement?
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Pages
204
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146888
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
iv-viii Leonard Schiff view
Foreword
ix-xi Jawahar Nehru view
Introduction
1-8 Leonard Schiff view
Chapter One Kisan
9-39 Leonard Schiff view
Chapter Two Mazdoor
40-72 Leonard Schiff view
Chapter Three Babu
73-113 Leonard Schiff view
Chapter Four Rajah
114-135 Leonard Schiff view
Chapter Five Sahib
136-159 Leonard Schiff view
Chapter Six Mazhab
160-184 Leonard Schiff view
Conclusion a Letter to an Average Englishman
185-196 Leonard Schiff view

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