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Our Administration of India. Being a Complete Account of the Revenue and Collectorate Administration in All Departments With Special Reference to the Work and Duties of A District Officer in Bengal

1886

of ascertaining and settling the rights of the ryots and of determining the proportion of the produce payable by them was reserved by the Regulations of 1793 ; but nothing was done until the whole rent law was remodelled by Act X. of 1859. [...] The greater portion of the Madras and Bombay Presidencies and of the Province of Assam is under a ryotwari settlement ; while in the North-Western Provinces Oudh the Central Provinces and the Panjab the form of settlment is zemindari. [...] The Privy Council has pointed out the distinction between the grant of an estate burdened with a certain service and the grant of an office the performance of whose duties are remunerated by the use of certain lands and have ruled that a tenure of the former description cannot be resumed merely on the ground that the service is no longer required. [...] in a ryotwari settlment the assessment and the name of the occupant ; and in a zemindari settlement the rent paid the tenant's name and the name of the proprietor. [...] Certain rulings of the Calcutta High Court have considerably curtailed the powers of Settlement Officers and virtually set aside the principle (affirmed in the Regulations) that the State should be ufettered in the exercise of its paramount right of determining the share of the produce of the soil which should be taken as revenue for State purposes.

government politics public policy
Pages
280
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147237
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xvi H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter I. Form of Administration Character of Land Tenures and Relations of Landlord and Tenant
1-20 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter II. Land Revenue Settlements
21-40 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter III. Government Estates Wards’ Estates and Forest Administration
41-61 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter IV. Miscellaneous Duties of Collectors: Alluvion Diluvion and Islands
62-78 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter V(1). The Excise Revenue and Opium
79-110 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter VI. Census Operations and the Census of 1881
111-133 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter VII. Road Cess and Public Works Cess Drainage Embankments and Irrigation
134-146 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter VIII. Land Acquisition Land Registration and Legal Practitioners
147-160 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter IX. The Salt Revenue and the License Tax
161-178 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter X. Stamp Revenue Notarial Registrations and Treasuries
179-197 H. A. D. Phillips view
Chapter XI. An Agricultural Sketch Manufactures and Trades
198-215 H. A. D. Phillips view
Summary and Conclusion
216-234 H. A. D. Phillips view
Index
235-240 H. A. D. Phillips view
Backmatter
i-xxiv H. A. D. Phillips view