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Land Revenue Policy of the Indian Government

1902

The circumstances which led to the preparation of these reports and to the promulgation of the views of the Government of India are explained in the opening paragraphs of the Resolution. [...] It has already been stated on the authority of Regulation XIX of 1793 that the ruling power in India has always by the ancient Ancient right of law of the country been entitled to the State to a share of the produce of share in the produce of the soil. [...] before the Mutiny the question of the relative shares of the State and of the landlords in the net produce of the soil came again under careful review in Northern India ; and the result of this further consideration of the matter was embodied in what are known as the Saharanpur Rules" (so called because they were issued in connection with the resettlement of the land revenue of the Saharapur d [...] 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 improved communications have given to the produce of agricultural industry to slip through the fingers of the people. [...] 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 assumtion that savings in the one will meet the losses of the other ; the third is the effect of local deterioration upon land revenue payments.
government politics public policy
Pages
297
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146578
Segment Pages Author Actions
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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