The Wealth and Welfare of the Bengal Delta: Comprising the Districts of Mymensingh, Dacca, Bogra, Pabna, Faridpur, Bakarganj, Tippera and Noskhali |
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abwabs acre advantages agricultural aman amount artisans Assam average Bakarganj barga become Bengal delta beparis Bhadralok Bihar Bogra Brahmaputra Calcutta cattle Census cent co-operative considerable cottage industries crops Dacca demand district boards economic rent estates exist factors Faridpur farms fibre flood Government gradually grant grown Hindus holding homesteads important improvement income increase India interests irrigation jute labour land revenue landlords large number latter less mahajans manure marriage ment money-lenders Moreover Mymensingh necessary Noakhali obtain occupancy rights organisation Pabna paddy Permanent Settlement plough practical present pressure of population produce profits Punjab purchase rabi crops raiyats realise reason regard rent result rivers rural secure seeds silt society soil standard of living sub-infeudation subsistence Sugarcane supply tenants tenure-holders tenures tion Tippera union boards United Provinces village wages weavers Western countries whole winter rice zemindars
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Page 99 - The rent of land may be defined to be that portion of the value of the whole produce which remains to the owner of the land, after all the outgoings belonging to its cultivation, of whatever kind, have been paid, including the profits of the capital employed, estimated according to the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock at the time being.
Page 82 - Indostan is now a jungle, inhabited only by wild beasts ; will a ten years' lease induce any proprietor to clear away that jungle, and encourage the...
Page 82 - I may safely assert that one-third of the Company's territory in Hindostan is now a jungle inhabited only by wild beasts. Will a ten years...
Page 133 - The Governor General in Council trusts that the proprietors of land, sensible of the benefits conferred upon them by the public assessment being fixed for ever, will exert themselves in the cultivation of their lands, under the certainty that they will enjoy exclusively the fruits of their own good management and industry, and that no demand will ever be made upon them, or their heirs, or successors, by the present, or any future Government, for an augmentation of the public assessment, in consequence...
Page 80 - ... for settling and establishing, upon principles of moderation and justice, according to the laws and constitution of India, the permanent rules by which their respective tributes, rents, and services shall be in future rendered and paid to the said United Company, by the said rajahs, zemindars, polygars, talookdars, and other native landholders.
Page 84 - 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 Governor-General in Council, will, whenever he may deem it proper, enact such Regulations as he may think necessary for the protection and welfare of the dependent talookdars, ryots, and other cultivators of the soil...
Page 114 - ... which is not supported by the experience of any civilised country, which is not justified by the single great experiment that has been made in India, and which was found in the latter case to place the tenant so unreservedly at the mercy of the landlord that the State has been compelled to employ for his protection a more stringent measure of legislation than has been found necessary in temporarily settled areas.
Page 102 - The enhanced rent shall bear to the previous rent the same proportion as the average prices during the last decennial period bear to the average prices during the previous decennial period taken for purposes of comparison, provided that, in calculating this proportion, the -average prices during the later period shall be reduced by onethird of their excess over the average prices during the earlier period.
Page 80 - Majesty (intituled an Act for the better Regulation and Management of the affairs of the East India Company, and of the British Possessions in India, and for establishing a Court of Judicature for the more speedy and effectual trial of persons accused of offences committed in the East Indies...
Page 85 - A landholder possessing a zamindari estate, which is heritable and transferable by sale, gift or bequest ; subject under all circumstances to the public assessment fixed upon it ; entitled after the payment of such assessment to appropriate any surplus rents and profits which may be lawfully receivable by him from the under-tenants of land in his zamindari or from the alteration and...