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Report of the United Provinces Zamindari Abolition Committee

1948

Meanwhile the Committee's office was occupied with the collection of necessary statistics regarding the number of zamindars arranged according to the revenue payable by them the area of their sir and khiulkasht and the sizes of holdings in the province etc. [...] In the first part we have reviewed briefly our main economic problems the historical development of the land system of the United Provinces land systems and agrarian reforms in certain other provinces of India and the measures of land reform recently adopted in some of the agricultural countries of Europe where the system of peasant proprietorship prevails. [...] All the members having been driven home by the destruction of other means of livelihood the *"Collection of papers relating to the conditions of the Tenantry and the working of the present RentLaw in Oudh" 1883 p. 277."13 right of sub-division has been rigorously asserted and I believe it to be a fact that the small plots into which the sir of some villages has been cut up barely yield enough [...] Calculated in this way the average holding in the whole province (excluding the States) comes to 6.7 acres."* Any appraisal of the economic condition of the peasantry depends on the crucial question of the size of holdings. [...] The inclusion in the calculation of the average of holdings of the small minority with economic holdings and the still smaller minority who may be called comparatively substantial agriculturists raises the average much higher than the actual size of lands held by the vast majority.
government politics public policy
Pages
627
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145594
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii unknown view
Part I The Background
i-358 unkonwn view
Part II Recommendations
359-582 unknown view
Minutes of Dissent
583-611 unknown view