Land Ownership Pattern
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Land Tenure Reforms under British Rule
Thursday, 09 September 2010 17:32 Caroline Laldinsangi
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LAND TENURE REFORMS
(New Land System / British Land Revenue)
In the Pre-British period in India there is no evidence to show the existence of private ownership of land. The peasants worked the land and the King of Government received a proportion of the produce, which was usually fixed at 1/6th to 1/12th of the produced and in times of trouble, was raised to 1/4th. The British conquest of India led to a change in the existing land system. The new system introduced by the British created two forms of property of land- landlordism in some parts of the country and the individual peasants’ proprietorship in others. The first step taken for this change was that of assessments and registration the ownership of land. The King’s or Government’s share was replaced by fixed money payments irrespective of the year’s production, in good or bad harvest, and whether more or less of the land was cultivated or not.
Lord Cornwallis created the first group of landlord in India by introducing the permanent settlement for Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in 1793, it was
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Land Tenure Reforms under British Rule
Thursday, 09 September 2010 17:32 Caroline Laldinsangi
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LAND TENURE REFORMS
(New Land System / British Land Revenue)
In the Pre-British period in India there is no evidence to show the existence of private ownership of land. The peasants worked the land and the King of Government received a proportion of the produce, which was usually fixed at 1/6th to 1/12th of the produced and in times of trouble, was raised to 1/4th. The British conquest of India led to a change in the existing land system. The new system introduced by the British created two forms of property of land- landlordism in some parts of the country and the individual peasants’ proprietorship in others. The first step taken for this change was that of assessments and registration the ownership of land. The King’s or Government’s share was replaced by fixed money payments irrespective of the year’s production, in good or bad harvest, and whether more or less of the land was cultivated or not.
Lord Cornwallis created the first group of landlord in India by introducing the permanent settlement for Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in 1793, it was