India suffred revenue collecting mechanisms of british India, like, permanent settlement, rayotwari system, mahalwari system, jagirdari system and jamindari system.
These systems gave ownership of the lands to landlords, and reduced the farmers to tenants, tillers and labourers, who paid rent In form of cash share or crop share.
After independence GOI introduced land reforms, based on socialistic principles of distributive justice and inclusive growth.
These reforms can be viewed under following heads-
- Abolistion of intermediaries- the above systems were aboloshed.
- Tenancy reforms- under these reforms three measures were taken-
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Regulation of rent- GOI decided to collect directly from the tenants at reduced rates.
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Right ownership transferred to actual tiller of the land.
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Tenancy rights of the tenants were safrgaurded
- Reorganisation of agriculture- under this there are 2 measures-
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Ceiling on land holdings. Surplus land above the ceiling cap, was acquired by govt. and redistrubuted among the landless.
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Consolidation of land holdings- consolidation of fragmented land.
- Land reforms still continue in form of computerisation and data base creation of land.