Page. 359 472, 473, 474 Tara Pershad Roy v. Soorjokant Acharjee Chowdry Thakoor Chand Banerjee v. Shurnumnissa Khatoon 470 393 230 Naidoo Tirthanund Thakoor v. Paresmon Jha Tweedie v. Ram Narain Doss Umirthnauth Chowdhry v. Koonjbehary Singh Unide Rajaha Raje Bommarauze, Bahadoor, v. Pemmasamy Venkatradry Unoda Pershad Banerjee v. Chunder Sekhur Deb 457 379 Unopoorna Dossee v. Oomachurn Doss ERRATA AND CORRIGENDA. Page 18, line 10 from top, for "northern" read "Northern." 40, line 11 of heading, for "formerly " read "formally." 61, line 7 from bottom, for "chucklah" read “circar." 108, line 4 from bottom, insert a comma after “able.” read " 132, line 11 from bottom, for "themselves;-" read "themselves." 134, line 13 from bottom, for "unecessary unnecessary." 135, line 9 from bottom, for "or fallow of" read "of fallow or." 337, line 4 from bottom, for " Deceninal" read "Decennial." 434, last line of heading, for "Mokuddum" read “Mokuddumee." LECTURE I. THE HINDOO PERIOD. Scope of the present subject-Nature of sources of information-Express Hindoo the present THE subject of the present course of Lectures, the Land Scope of Tenures of Lower Bengal, requires I think a word of pre- subject. liminary explanation. The term 'tenure' is not perhaps strictly applicable in India, but it is one which is used in the legislation relating to the land, and is a convenient term, liable to little misconception. I mean to include in the term 'Land Tenures' the rights and interests in and relating to the land in India, and the relations with respect. thereto between the persons entitled to those rights and interests. We shall find that the State, the zemindar and LECTURE Nature of sources of information. the cultivator stand in certain relations to the land, and have certain rights and interests in it, and also have certain relations with each other which are not perhaps exactly those of the landlord and tenant of English Law. I shall endeavour to show what those relations are, and what are the rights of the various parties. I shall also endeavour to show how those rights and relations are created, modified, transferred, and extinguished. It is a wide and difficult subject: one which high authorities have pronounced incapable of satisfactory treatment.1 All I can hope to do is to clear away a little of the confusion with which the subject abounds. In order to do this, and to come to some understanding of the true principles of the law on the subject, I shall have to treat it to a certain extent historically: not indeed with reference to points of antiquarian or historical or political interest-that would be beyond my province; but in order to show what was the state of the law at the commencement of the British rule, and to explain the subsequent modifications of the law, I must attempt to place before you the Hindoo system of Land Tenures as far as I can ascertain it, and the changes introduced under Mahomedan rule, so as to show what the law on the subject was at the British accession to the Government. The same historical treatment will be useful also, although not so necessary, in bringing down the law to the present time. I shall then first endeavour to describe the Hindoo system of Land Tenures. The materials for such a description are very scanty: we have extremely little accessible information of a direct nature: our main reliance has to be See the Preface to Mr. Justice Markby's Lectures on Indian Law (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1873). |