Question

Why has the indian government abolished land revenue since independence?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.