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Calcutta University Readership Lectures. Land Problems of India

1933

Apart from these openings for tenancy exploitation, both in the United Provinces at present and in the Central Provinces before the passing of the Tenancy Act, the existence of a periodic protected tenancy depending upon the consent of the landlord, and hence difficult to acquire, has been a fertile cause of the levy of exactions in various guises. [...] During the movement of tribes like the . fats, Gujars, Rors, etc. , along the river in the South-Eastern districts of the Punjab, they exhibited the same group solidarity and control of the landed property of the household by the tribes, which characterise the tribal communalism of the Pathans and the Bilochis of the North-Western districts. [...] Vestiges of the original grouping in the local areas held by the brethren of a single clan are represented also by the Chaurasi, or division of eighty-four villages, the Satasi, of eighty-seven, the Biyalisi, of forty-two, and the Tara, of thirteen, which is the traditional number of villages presented by Jay °hand of Kamm' to the bodies of Rajput colonists who settled24 LAND PROBLEMS OF INDIA und [...] Abuse of Protected Tenant Right. —The conferment of protected tenant right with security of tenure and restricted transfer has led everywhere to the evils of nazarana, or the uneconomic practice of the extortion of a large sum by the landlord in consideration of his recognising the status of the in-coming tenant, while there also has arisen the custom of sub-letting at high rents. [...] CHAPTER IV BREAK-UP OF THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY , Feudal and Communal Villages and their Agricul- ture. —The above survey of the evolution of the Indian agrarian system shows the predominance of rural com- munalism, though the economics of conquest and the farming of the revenue have left deep marks on this scheme.
agriculture environment
Pages
380
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xi Radhakamal Mukerjee view
Select Opinions
1-2 unknown view
Chapter I Agrarian Unsettlement
1-12 unknown view
Chapter II Origins of Communal Land-Ownership
13-27 unknown view
Chapter III The Landlord Tenures
28-38 unknown view
Chapter IV Break-Up of the Village Community
39-54 unknown view
Chapter V Fractionlisatios of Holdings
55-68 unknown view
Chapter VI Protection of Peasant Farming
69-89 unknown view
Chapter VII The Chain of Subinfeudation
90-122 unknown view
Chapter VIII Absentee Landlordism: Forms of Rent and Irregular Exaction
123-148 unknown view
Chapter IX Defects of Tenancy
149-169 unknown view
Chapter X Reform of Tenancy
170-197 unknown view
Chapter XI The State As Landlord
198-213 unknown view
Chapter XII The Aqricultural Labourer
214-239 unknown view
Chapter XIII The Landless Peasant
240-256 unknown view
Chapter XIV Agricultural Indebtedness and Land Alienation
257-281 unknown view
Chapter XV The Food Position in Famine and Normal Years
282-297 unknown view
Chapter XVI Taxation of Agricultural Income
298-319 unknown view
Chapter XVII Retrospect and Forecast
320-362 unknown view
Index
363-369 unknown view

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