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An Appraisal of Land Re-distributive measures in Leftist Regime in West Bengal

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In contrary to the popular belief of the existence of a simple self-sufficient village economy in the pre-colonial India, it has been observed that the rural population was divided into different ‘social classes’ according to the amount of wealth one accumulates. The highest class of the social echelon was comprised of landlords, money lenders and grain-traders. Rich peasants belonged to the second class and the third class comprised of the mass of rural farmers. In the next stratum, the peasants who were dependent on credit for getting agricultural inputs constituted the class of poor peasants. The bottom tier of this hierarchy comprised of share croppers and landless agricultural labourers who mostly belonged to the lower castes of the society. This differentiated class structure has a historical trajectory of formation. However, rural community in West Bengal as well as in other states is resembled with the characteristics of over determinism, i.e. landlords may well act as money lenders, grain-traders to the rural peasants and small farmers may well play the role of share-croppers, agricultural labourers. However, whatever be the nature of conglomerated structure of rural peasantry they were always subjected to ‘class exploitation’ -as the surplus labour exerted by the farmers are mostly usurped by the landlords, money lenders and grain traders. To put an end of this age-old exploitative class relation, government both at the centre and state levels took serious steps after Independence. Constitution, after its genesis in 1950, got amended for the first time in 1951 to provide legal safeguard to the land reforms acts. West Bengal, took an early endeavour to enact Estate Acquisition Act, 1953 and Land Reforms Act, 1955 to guarantee tenancy reforms. However, such acts became effective later when Left front voted into power in West Bengal and started implementing land redistributive measures rigorously and meticulously.

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Peasantry, Land Reforms, Agriculture, Share cropping, Leftist policy.

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"An Appraisal of Land Re-distributive measures in Leftist Regime in West Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.1013-1018, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807882.pdf

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"An Appraisal of Land Re-distributive measures in Leftist Regime in West Bengal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp1013-1018, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807882.pdf

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Published Paper ID: JETIR1807882
Registration ID: 185683
Published In: Volume 5 | Issue 7 | Year July-2018
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Page No: 1013-1018
Country: MURSHIDABAD, WEST BENGAL, India .
Area: Arts
ISSN Number: 2349-5162
Publisher: IJ Publication


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