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During British period, land reforms had a very limited scope and content. These land reforms were... more During British period, land reforms had a very limited scope and content. These land reforms were motivated not by consideration of improving production, nor did they have any sense of social justice. They were meant to safeguard British political influence in the rural areas and save the rural market from being completely pauperized. Thus, the structure of agrarian society evolved under British rule, created a socio-economic set up in which parasitism flourished, land concentration in the hands of a few rural rich continued to grow, and landlessness and land hunger of the peasants mounted at an over increasing pace. Evictions and insecurity of tenancy and rack-renting became a general phenomenon and the cultivators were ground down by a colossal burden of indebtedness.
During British period, land reforms had a very limited scope and content. These land reforms were... more During British period, land reforms had a very limited scope and content. These land reforms were motivated not by consideration of improving production, nor did they have any sense of social justice. They were meant to safeguard British political influence in the rural areas and save the rural market from being completely pauperized. Thus, the structure of agrarian society evolved under British rule, created a socio-economic set up in which parasitism flourished, land concentration in the hands of a few rural rich continued to grow, and landlessness and land hunger of the peasants mounted at an over increasing pace. Evictions and insecurity of tenancy and rack-renting became a general phenomenon and the cultivators were ground down by a colossal burden of indebtedness.