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  • ...ced existing throughout its history until recent times, emperor on the top and village at the bottom. All the imperial dynasties preceding the colonial ru ...was worked out and maintained by a traditional system of custom, authority and mutual obligation. ...
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  • ...the existing possessions of cultivators. Both Kautilya in his Artha Sastra and Manu, the lawgiver of the Aryans, note that whoever makes land fit for cult ...er Dharmasutrakars such as Baudhayana, Yagnavalka, Apasthamba, Vaisishtha, and Vishnu set the king's share as annual tax from his subjects to the tune of ...
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  • ...he basis of the order of puritical precedence with the brahmans on its top and the sudras at the bottom. The sudras, who made the lowest rung of the socio ...tem, thereby resulting in an elaborate system of occupational distinctions and interrelations among various varnas. ...
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  • ...t rule, were to be vested in the deputy custodian of Enemy Property (Lands and Buildings) with effect from the date of this order. No person could transfe ...stant custodians; and later, the additional deputy commissioners (Revenue) and the subdivisional officers were also appointed assistant custodians. ...
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  • ...st delta. The self-subsistent village existence kept the people's physical and social mobility very limited. ...s, peasant movements were either non-existent or extremely rare in ancient and medieval times. ...
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  • ...and system being eroded by the jagirdars and thikadars coming as merchants and moneylenders. ...sought to reconstruct the tribal society disintegrating under the stresses and strains of colonial rule. ...
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  • ...on. Murshid Quli Khan settled these zamindaries with his trusted followers and cronies. In this process of replacement the most fortunate beneficiary was ...the most promising and enterprising. Darpanarain, the zamindar of Puthia, and Murshid Quli Khan had significant contributions behind Raghunandan's rise t ...
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  • ...diciary in Bangladesh consists of the higher judiciary (the Supreme Court) and the subordinate judiciary (the lower courts). ...ted in the Appellate Division sit in that division with the Chief Justice, and the judges appointed in the High Court Division sit in that division. ...
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  • ...orks, devaluing the Currency, and following a policy of stabilizing prices and securing credit. But the British colonial government did not do so in the i ...e was much lower than other crops. Rice prices began to recover in 1934-35 and that of jute, the next year. However, the pace was too slow to achieve full ...
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  • ...is 'a contribution exacted by the state'. It is a nonpenal but compulsory and unrequited transfer of resources from the private to the public sector, lev ...no tax shall be levied or collected except by or under the authority of an Act of Parliament&#8221. The imposition, regulation, alteration, remission or r ...
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  • ...ngal throughout its history and frequently established their polities here and ruled the country according to their own fashion. As land was always the ma ...he extant copperplate documents of the Gupta period concerning land grants and land sale. ...
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  • ...one’s confidence in another. Credit is the sale of money or goods on trust and it increases the purchasing power of the debtor. Most credit arises out of ...marily because of the increased participation of moneylenders, goldsmiths, and the merchant class. ...
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  • ...kars'; (the family middle name) were a relatively progressive, enlightened and unostentatious zamindar family. A number of its members made notable contri ...nder the provisions of the [[east bengal state acquisition]] [[and tenancy act]] of 1950. ...
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  • ...ndependent) talukdars who paid revenues straight to the khalsa (exchequer) and the peasants. ...ly a factor of production, but also a status symbol and a source of social and political influence. Hence land control offered manifold prospects to all a ...
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  • ...and movements (political or social), historians have taken notice of them and considered their activities of historical significance. ...ir exploiters, most of the time these struggles were short-lived, sporadic and under the control of non-peasant outsiders. ...
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  • ...engal (1937-1943) and East Bengal (1954), Home Minister of Pakistan (1955) and Governor of East Pakistan (1956-58). ...wyer of the Barisal Bar, and his grandfather Kazi Akram Ali, a good Arabic and Persian scholar, was a prominent muktear of Barisal. ...
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  • ...h. In some districts such as Mymensingh, Pabna, Bogra, Bakerganj, Noakhali and Chitagong more than 60 per cent of the population were Muslims. ...ip) in zamindari estates, opening of additional classes in village schools and special occasions such as marriages or births in zamindars' families. Benga ...
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  • ...bar coast by 58 AD. Since then various missionaries-Syrian, Roman Catholic and particularly the Jesuits-visited India at different times. But Christianity ...r, it established different branches of Don Bosco School, Auxilium Convent and St. Paul's School in different parts of Bengal. But with the advent of the ...
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  • ...was felt for fisheries education and research, because population was low and fish in plenty. ...ring 1996-97, of which inland fisheries contributed about 10,79,000 m tons and marine fisheries about 2,94,000 m tons. The growth rate of fish production ...
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  • ...nd forestry]]. The agriculture of Bangladesh largely depends on the amount and distribution of the rainfall ie the southwest [[Monsoon|monsoon]], which co ...er|ganges]], [[Brahmaputra River|brahmaputra]] and [[Meghna River|meghna]] and their innumerable tributaries, with plenty of rainfall, make agricultural o ...
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