...ed Record of Rights for the holders of land on the one hand and government and the courts of justice on the other.
...me that is preserved in the Collectorate Record Room and Judge Record Room and also in the Tahsil (rent collection office) for reference. The holder of ea
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...to government through the intermediary of the great zamindars called rajas and maharajas. However, many old taluqdars paid revenues to government directly
...states and assessed as independent revenue paying estates. All independent and dependant taluqs of various denominations were thus turned into independent
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...ny of its provisions are borrowed from various enactments which it repeals and supersedes.
...so interests comprised therein. It includes the right of equity redemption and a debt secured by charges. Actionable claims are also properties of this ca
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...ndard rate which was not variable, and the raiyat had the right to possess and enjoy the land from generation to generation if they paid jama regularly ac
...ajasva' became 'jama' during Mughal period. However, the spirit of rajasva and jama remained the same. The cultivators had customary rights in land which
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...decrees with far reaching consequences on the relations between zamindars and raiyats.
...ding at fixed rate of rent; and raiyats having acquired no occupancy right and paying rent at a competitive rate.
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...711 AD. Ramsundar Ray, the fifth descendent of Balaram Ray, died childless and their next four descendents were adopted sons.
...Acquisition and Tenancy Act 1950|east bengal state acquisition and tenancy act 1950]]. [Kazi Mustafizur Rahman]
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...s, many Bengal zamindars created intermediate interests between themselves and actual cultivators. The ''hawla'' tenure was one of them.
...o agreed to clear the jungle lands by laying out their own capital, labour and organisation. They became attracted to the zamindar's reclamation drive, be
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...anjeeb found the bureaucratic segregation of the colonial service stifling and resigned within a year of his appointment.
...which led to the enactment of the [[Bengal Tenancy Act 1885|bengal tenancy act]] (1885). [Sirajul Islam]
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...vaguely recognised their customary rights. With the increase of population and rise of prices of agricultural produce in the nineteenth century, demand fo
...ement. The government tried to accommodate this class by enacting the Rent Act of 1859. But the discontents of the peasantry did not subside.
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...te secretary to [[Hastings, Warren|warren hastings]], was educated at Eton and Haileybury. He arrived at Calcutta in 1850 to start his Indian Civil Servic
...ssil. The idea was incorporated into the Bill before it was passed into an Act. But finally, even the native ICS officers were not allowed the trial juris
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...ted fellow. He left two sons and one daughter named Loknath, Ishwarchandra and Kamalmoni.'
...other Ishwarchandra. Loknath Motryo established Loknath School in Rajshahi and built Tahirpur-Bilmoy road named Loknath Danra' in 1849. He was conferred u
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...his son Khulu Muhammad, brother Khairullah Chowdhury, wife Anarkoli Begum and another brother Mojorullah Chowdhury became the zamindar of Mohipur consecu
...during the time of the next two zamindars, Enayetullah Chowdhury (d.1832) and Ziaullah Chowdhury (d.1883).
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...gal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act 1950| east bengal estate acquisition act of ]]1950 under which the raiyats got a new legal nomenclature, malik or ow
...erefore, not inheritable. Many khudkasta raiyats, to maximise their profit and at the same time conserve their khudkasta right, got their own lands cultiv
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...this relation oppressive enough to instigate them to resist this relation and establish their rights in land.
...ee to give them seven ari for every twenty ari production as labour charge and that the adhiars must receive two thirds of the harvests for cultivation of
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...the KPP 21-point manifesto for the general elections of 1937. The Congress and the [[Muslim League|muslim league]] were also highly sympathetic to the pea
...Acquisition and Tenancy Act 1950|east bengal state acquisition and tenancy act]], 1950. [Sirajul Islam]
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...loyal to the British regime. Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 defined the rights and liabilities of the tenants in relation to their superior landlords.
...referred to Special Committee of the House. Thereafter the bill was passed and it got the assent on 16 May 1951.
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...Mughals to invade Bangla. Later this jagir turned as an immense zamindari and it was renamed as Jahangirpur after the name of the emperor.
...and Govindanath Raichowdhury. Govindanath was an influential, kind-hearted and learned zamindar. After his death his son Shaymanath Raichowdhury succeeded
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...more than cultivating slaves, and were thus not entitled to raiyati rights and the right to commutation from kind to cash rent.
...Acquisition and Tenancy Act 1950|east bengal state acquisition and tenancy act]] (1950) all tonk peasants were recognised as normal proprietors of the lan
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...riod, rate of rent, and mode of payment of rent. A peasant holding a patta and giving a kabuliyat, in turn, was known as pattadari raiyat. To collect rent
...em socially. The patwari collected state revenue from the pattadar raiyats and village headmen. While most pattas were issued for a definite term only, th
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...t wise description of ownership, area, classification, share of ownership, and the status thereof shown in a list called khasra.
...Os called charge officers, who all stand empowered under the Bengal Survey Act 1875.
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...a wrongdoer from committing an offence, and to compensate personal injury and damage caused to a property of a person, are the aim of tort law. This reme
...discharges water on the land of others or even after determination of his tenancy remains in possession against the will of the landlord he commits offence o
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...the abolition of the zamindari system and in the amendment of the Tenancy Act.
...956, Ramizuddin Ahmad was elected member of the Pakistan National Assembly and became Minister for Communication in 1957. During his office as Minister fo
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...e landlord and two-third for the tenant and (3) two-fifth for the landlord and one fifth for the landlord.
...s were recorded as payers of produce rent, dhankarari (fixed rent in kind) and bargadars or sharecroppers.
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...ishna Mohan|rev. krishna mohan banerji]] in 1843. In 1851, he was ordained and sent to Burdwan district.
...also wrote two novels, ''Chandramukhi'', ''A Tale of Bengali Life'' (1859) and ''Govinda Samanta'', which portray the suffering of peasants under the zami
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...ricts of Bengal and their supporters had gone to fields and cut down crops and thrashed them on their own khalan (harvest processing field).
...s. They argued that the harvests would be stacked at the tenant's compound and the landlord would not get any share from the by-products.
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...proprietary ownership of the zamindari. Later, Bishnuram Sen, Balaram Sen and Kashiram Sen bought zamindari of Selimabad pargana by their own names.
...teepassa zamindari divided in to two parts named Boro Hissha (large share) and Chhoto Hissha (small share).
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...career he served in various capacities in the North West Provinces, Punjab and Oudh.
...Office and the Government of India as the most neglected in administration and backward in economic conditions in the whole of British India.
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...district (1905-06), diara operation areas in Bakerganj district (1910-15) and in Tushkhali Government estate in Bakerganj district (1905-06).
...of each district operations chronologically, with total years of operation and the names of the settlement officers who conducted those operations.
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...hat). His zamindari comprised the sarkars of Ghoraghat, Barbakabad, Tajpur and Panjor. During his time, a huge dighi named Shuksagar was dug on the east s
...the English East India Company acquired ''diw''''a''''n''''i'' of Bengal, and the Englih officials started supervision over the local revenue system.
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...6; Governor General of Canada, 1872-78; ambassador in St. Petersburg, 1879 and ambassador to Turkey, 1881.
...ercome. Ripon had enjoyed unexampled goodwill and respect from the Indians and to the [[Anglo-Indians|anglo-indians]] he was equally unpopular. To them he
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...l India outlook, the leaders kept the organisation above narrow provincial and communal politics.
...lied that national movement was assuming an all India character in outlook and approach.
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...ries: lands held by proprietors but not under the permanent settlement law and khas lands or lands held not by private proprietors but by the government.
...d to conduct periodical [[Revenue Survey|revenue survey]] of these estates and revise the rates of assessment in the light of the findings of the survey.
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...66), [[Secretary of State for India|secretary of state for india]] (1866), and Lord President of the Council (1868-73). He was made a Marquess in 1871.
...gh posts in the India Office two times, was appointed the Governor General and Viceroy of India. Lord Ripon, a radical liberal among the liberals, set his
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...dan was the founder of Chandradwip royal family. Ramaballav, Krishnaballav and Hariballav were the inheritors of Danujmardan.
...was shown inTodormal's revenue records as part of Bakla [[Sarkar|sarkar]] and divided into three parganas.
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...hat the ownership of land belonged to the person who cleared jungles on it and prepared it for cultivation. The king claimed a share in the produce of the
...network of rivers, tributaries and canals. Diluvion of land by the rivers and formation of new lands are annual features. The peculiar geographical condi
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...tre of the Bengali language. He was well versed in Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu and English, apart from his mother tongue Bangla.
...ile a law student and honorary secretary of the Muslim Institute, he wrote and published a pamphlet on Mohammedan Education.
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...gar High School in 1904, graduated from the Calcutta Ripon College in 1908 and obtained BL Degree from the same institution in 1910.
...on. He was associated with the activities of the ‘Abhay Ashram’ of Comilla and was elected a member of the Comilla District Board in 1936. During the [[Fa
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...vion) since time immemorial must have led to the growth of a body of usage and custom regulating the rights of ownership of such lands.
...introduce any new rule of law. On the contrary, it declared the supremacy and applicability of the rules of usage wherever a clearly established usage wa
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...r are concerned the greatest figures of the estate were Khwaja abdul ghani and his son [[Ahsanullah, Khwaja|khwaja ahsanullah]]. Though they had nothing t
...nts in Dhaka, he developed a flourishing business in hides and skins, salt and spices. Under the operation of the [[Permanent Settlement, The|permanent se
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...to include Ghoraghat, Nawabpur, Khetlal, Shibganj, Panchbibi, Badalgachhi and Adamdighi thanas.
...7. His youngest son Prannath succeeded him in 1682. He was the most famous and powerful potentate of the family who began the construction of the fabulous
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...rests existing between the paramount power at the top i.e., the government and the men actually behind the plough i.e, the actual cultivators. Moreover, t
...n his direct possession. But the East Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act contained a specific provision to the effect that no individual land holder
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...e of fighting the first provincial elections under the Government of India Act, 1935 thus turning it more or less into an electioneering machinery. It wen
...pion the cause of tenants and working class people and support the dyarchy and appointment of ministers if their selection was as per the choice of the pa
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...ociation was a necessity for influencing Indian and British public opinion and also government policy the Missionaries established it in 1831.
...s were held to exchange ideas and experiences, to promote mutual good will and encourage one another in their evangelical efforts.
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...ment, the Board of Revenue kept changing its set-up, jurisdictions, powers and functions until the end of the British rule.
...centrally, was discarded in 1773. The Board of Revenue was soon abolished and so was the system of district collectors. Instead, the country was divided
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...abs, there were also many other abwabs, which were imposed by ''faujdars'' and ''kotwals''.
...lgrimage, ''shraddha'', festivals, [[Punya|punya]], ''chandas'', and so on and without any interventions from the concerned authorities.
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...established later in 1924 were entrusted with only the realization of Tax and Customs Duties, relieving them from the collection of land revenue.
...l and most importantly, agrarian situations of the Bengal [[Mouza|mouza]]s and [[Pargana|pargana]]s. The [[Thakbast Surveys|thakbast survey]] that precede
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...in Jessore and Nadia in 1859. It quickly spread in other indigo districts and continued through 1862, when government interfered in favour of the raiyats
...' system under which raiyats owned the means of production including their tenancy rights in land. In the new indigo estates of the planters, the raiyats turn
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...angladesh. The Tripura raj existed as an independent kingdom for centuries and according to legend its territory was extended from the Garo Hills down to
...tuting largely the Bangladesh districts of Habiganj, Brahmanbaria, Comilla and Feni. Comilla was the zamindari headquarters of the raja. The zamindari par
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...s) from Chittagong College in 1912 and obtained BA (Hons) degree in Arabic and Persian in 1915. He got MA degree in History from Calcutta University in 19
...e year following, he introduced compulsory primary education for the girls and took up a plan for establishing primary schools in each of the areas. Schoo
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...f the land under their control. As absolute proprietors of land, zamindars and talukdars were required to pay revenue to government at a rate fixed perman
...ater part of the zamindari lands of Bengal were sold through auction sales and their lands were transferred to new hands.
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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”. 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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