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Systems of Land Tenure in the British India
Introduction
From times immemorial, the right of the State to claim a portion of the agricultural produce has been recognized in almost all countries on the assumption that the government, as the custodian and guardian of society’s interests, is the ultimate proprietor of all lands and therefore the revenue received by the State from the people has been considered in the nature of rent from such domains. The collection of such revenue necessitated certain classification; Banerjee categorizes the proprietary rights into five clauses where, (i) the government may be the direct owner: (ii) the cultivator or landowner may be, for all practical purposes, considered as proprietor, paying revenue to the ...
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