A Manual of the Land Revenue Systems and Land Tenures of British India ...Superintendent of Government Printing, 1882 - 787 страници |
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Страница 23 - State, to conduct the business transacted in the United Kingdom in relation to the government of and the correspondence with India...
Страница 26 - Regulations, so revised, were passed, of which the forty -first declares the purpose of forming into a regular Code, all Regulations that might be enacted for the internal government of the British territories in Bengal. That these Regulations did not exactly comply with the terms of the Act of 1773, while they exceeded the limits of the powers given by the Act of 1 78 1, there can be no doubt.
Страница 411 - Division, again, while regular village communities were frequently found in the fertile lands fringing the rivers, all trace of these disappeared where the cultivation was dependent on scattered wells beyond the influence of the river. Here the well was the true unit of property ; but where the proprietors of several wells lived together for mutual protection, or their wells were sufficiently near to be conveniently included within one village boundary, the opportunity was taken to group them into...
Страница 569 - ... operations in Sindh, though in practice they have been subjected to great and material modification as regards details, so that the present form of Settlement differs largely from that adopted about 1864-65, the failure of which became more and more evident eight or ten years later. The organization of the department was completed by 1864-65, and regular survey and Settlement work has been going on ever since. At first there were two Superintendents, one upon the right bank, and the other on...
Страница 560 - In determining, then, upon the extent of country to be assessed at uniform rates, we are of opinion that the more permanent distinctions of climate, markets and husbandry should receive our chief attention. We should not think of imposing different rates of assessment on a tract of country similarly situated in respect of these three points, in consequence of the actual condition of the cultivators varying in different parts of it.
Страница 553 - ... land revenue assessed on any village shall be first charge on all land in the entire village and on the rents, profits or produce thereof. 242. Land held by bhumidhar or sirdar liable to payment of land revenue.— (1) All land held by a person who is or is deemed to be a bhumidhar or sirdar as such and wherever situate, is liable to the payment of land revenue to the State Government, except such land as may hereafter be exempted whether wholly or partially from such liability by grant of, or...
Страница 631 - was formerly, and is still, very common in Berar. These are the ordinary terms of the batai contract : the registered occupant of the land pays the assessment on it, but makes it over entirely to the metayer, and receives as rent half the crop after it has been cleared and made ready for market. The proportion of half is invariable, but the metayer...
Страница 594 - Government from all the rayats ; conducts all its arrangements with them, and exerts himself to promote the cultivation and the prosperity of the village. Though .originally the agent of the Government, he is now regarded as equally the representative of the rayats, and is not less useful in executing the orders of the Government than in asserting the rights, or at least in making known the wrongs, of the people.
Страница 23 - ... and disposed of for the purposes of the government of India alone, subject to the provisions of this Act.
Страница 160 - Directors at home announced their intention ' to stand forth as Diw&n, and by the agency of the Company's servants to take upon themselves the entire care and management of the revenues.