The Land-systems of British India, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1892 - Land tenure |
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administration adopted agricultural Ajmer allotment Aryan Assam assessment Benares Bengal body Bombay British British India Burma called ceded Central Provinces chapter Chief Commissioner Chittagong cis-Sutlej claim clans co-sharers common conquered Council cultivation custom Date districts divided Division Dravidian estates existing Expired fact fixed Governor Governor-General grant groups headman held hills Hindu holders holding idea joint villages land-revenue land-tenures landholders landlord villages leases Legislative Legislature Lieutenant-Governor Madras Maráthá ment Mughal Muhammadan Narbada North-West Provinces North-Western Provinces officers original Orissa Oudh owner Panjab pargana Permanent Settlement Peshwa Presidency proprietor raiyats raiyatwárí Rájá Rajput recognized regards Regulations rent Revenue Settlement revenue-farmers Revision rule ruler settled share Sikh Sindh sír soil Taluk Taluqdár tenants tenures term territory tion tracts treaty tribes tricts types of village Vict vince waste lands whole Zamindars
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Page 76 - State, to conduct the business transacted in the United Kingdom in relation to the government of and the correspondence with India...
Page 488 - I am also convinced that, failing the claim of right of the zemindars, it would be necessary for the public good to grant a right of property in the soil to them, or to persons of other descriptions.
Page 75 - ... and disposed of for the purposes of the government of India alone, subject to the provisions of this Act.
Page 159 - The sons will take the places of their fathers ; the same site for the village, the same position for the houses, the same lands will be reoccupied by the descendants of those who were driven out when the village was depopulated ; and it is not a trifling matter that will drive them out, for they will often maintain their post through times of disturbance and convulsion, and acquire strength sufficient to resist pillage and oppression with success.
Page 79 - A Regulation for forming into a regular code all regulations that may be enacted for the internal government of the British territories in Bengal", laid down the mode of exercise of legislative powers which was subsequently approved by Parliament.
Page 158 - The Village Communities are little Republics, having nearly everything they can want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down; revolution succeeds to revolution; Hindoo, Patan, Mogul, Mahratta, Sikh, English, are all masters in turn; but the Village Communities remain the same.
Page 584 - It being the duty of the ruling power to protect all classes of people, and more particularly those who from their situation are most helpless, the...
Page 203 - The first thing then the student has to do is to get rid of the idea of absolute ownership. Such an idea is quite unknown to the English law. No man is in law the absolute owner of lands. He can only hold an estate in them.
Page 372 - ... taluqdars, andjagirdars under the Mughal and Hindu Governments, and what they were bound to pay ; it also directed the redress of the grievances of those who had been unjustly displaced in the course of the earlier tentative and imperfect revenue arrangements.