Discuss the nature of land reform laws in india after independence
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The permanent Settlement of 1793 created a class of superior proprietors who usurped the unwritten but age-old rights of tenants in their lands. By leaving a wide margin between the landlord’s rent and the revenue demand of the State, it enabled this class to live and prosper on the surplus by effectively using the power of ejectment.
The best remedy of the problem lay in undoing the blunder and in re-establishing the relations which existed between the revenue farmers and tenants before 1793. But landlords were the govt’s own creation and her powerful allies. Understandably, the govt. could not have destroyed them or undermined their position.
The best that could be hoped for was “a compromise here and an adjustment there” so as to maintain the otherwise crumbling structure of their land system. Thus came the tenancy legislation. The settlement of 1793 had left the ryots at the mercy of the Zamindars who ‘rack rented, impoverished and oppressed them’.
It was not that the govt. was unaware of the injustice done or the plight of the tenants. As far back as 1819, the Court or Directors of the East India Company observed that “consequences most injurious to the rights and interests have arisen from describing those with whom Permanent Settlement was concluded as the actual proprietors of the land”.
And yet 40 years elapsed before the govt. came forward to protect the interests of the ryots. The Bengal Rent Act (Act X) of 1859 was the first legislative attempt at defining the rights of tenants and protecting them against frequent enhancement of rent and arbitrary ejectment.
The Law applied to all provinces included in the Bengal Presidency. In the case of the North Western Provinces and Oudh, it was superseded by the Rent Act of 1873 while in the Punjab, certain safeguards were included in the terms of the Settlement itself.
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The best remedy of the problem lay in undoing the blunder and in re-establishing the relations which existed between the revenue farmers and tenants before 1793. But landlords were the govt’s own creation and her powerful allies. Understandably, the govt. could not have destroyed them or undermined their position.
The best that could be hoped for was “a compromise here and an adjustment there” so as to maintain the otherwise crumbling structure of their land system. Thus came the tenancy legislation. The settlement of 1793 had left the ryots at the mercy of the Zamindars who ‘rack rented, impoverished and oppressed them’.
It was not that the govt. was unaware of the injustice done or the plight of the tenants. As far back as 1819, the Court or Directors of the East India Company observed that “consequences most injurious to the rights and interests have arisen from describing those with whom Permanent Settlement was concluded as the actual proprietors of the land”.
And yet 40 years elapsed before the govt. came forward to protect the interests of the ryots. The Bengal Rent Act (Act X) of 1859 was the first legislative attempt at defining the rights of tenants and protecting them against frequent enhancement of rent and arbitrary ejectment.
The Law applied to all provinces included in the Bengal Presidency. In the case of the North Western Provinces and Oudh, it was superseded by the Rent Act of 1873 while in the Punjab, certain safeguards were included in the terms of the Settlement itself.
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