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Write short note: Social consequences of land ceiling legislation.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Ceiling laws were the redistributive leg of Indian land reform: a statutory maximum on holdings, with surplus vested in the state and distributed to the landless. Sociologically the interesting question is not how little land moved, but what the attempt itself did to rural social relations. Ronald J. Herring (Land to the Tiller, 1983) put…

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  • Anticipatory eviction and concealment
  • A new dominant stratum
  • The excluded
  • Legitimation, litigation and conflict
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