Land Revenue Policy of the Indian Government (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...frient's to assert their rights. 9. In paragraph 7 above I have invited special attention to the use of the word "cullurable" in the instruction to Settlement Officer to fix a fair jama not only with reference to cultivated but CENTRAL also culturable lands. Here, again, we have a further clue to PROVS. the procedure of the past, and I have not infrequently, during the course of my long connection with the Department, consulted old Settlement officials, such as Rao Bahadur Bhargao Rao, as to what was meant by the Settlement Officers of the past by the term "prospective " assets. I have gathered that what the Settlement Officer aimed at was to fix a revenue that would approximate to half-assets midway through the Settlement. Assets might increase direct ly after announcement of the revised revenue by the adjustment of rents in the manner above described. With a rise of prices there would be likewise appreciation of the produce of the home-farm. The rent-roll would also increase as new land was brought under the plough. In villages, then, where there was a large area of culturable land and owing to the pressure of population in the vicinity, the probability existed of much new land being brought under the plough in the approximate future, a higher percentage of assets could be taken than where no such scope existed. Similarly, where rents appeared low to the Settlement Officer, and he expected a considerable accession of income to the malguzars on the adjustment of rents which followed revenue announcement, he would take a higher fraction. There is another reason which accounts for high percentages of revenue in certain tracts, and that is the concealment of the rental by the malguzars. This was specially the case in Wardha, where, accordi...