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From: "Mandeep Singh Bajwa" <>
Subject: Re: [INDIA-ROYALTY] Zamindari Abolition
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 20:27:21 +0530
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Pakistan's promises were not worth the paper they were made on. Have we
forgotten so easily the ethnic cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs in that country
? It has been estimated that over 500,000 non-Muslims were brutally
massacred. What to speak of non-Muslims, the Bengali Muslims were not spared
either.

Pakistani offers to the Princes were only meant to Balkanise India and
render it weak.This is the verdict of history.

Mandeep
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>
> Jagirdars/Inamdars/Deshmukhs/sardeshmukhs were the titles of Zamindars in
> Mahrastra.Iwas adopted in the Patankar Family from Gaikwad family of
> Baroda and am aware of all facts about the abolition.I had personally met
> Shri Morarji Desai the then Chief Minister Bombay State (which included
> parts of present Maharastra)
>
> Tenancy Act provided that whosoever is in possesion of any land and is
> cultivating the same will become owner of the land and copensation will be
> paid not exceeding 20 times the assesment of the land .Assesment used to
> be a rupee or so per acre so the Inamdar would get 20rupees for an
> acre-maket value of which would be many times more.Secondly this petty
> amount was to be paid over a period of 20 years in annual istalments with
> interest of 3 or4% per annum Tenants did not pay even this and the Inamdar
> had to go to Revenue Authorities
> Secondly the Inamdars got a small annual income for collection of revenue
> from villages under their control and they had to pay major portion to
> Govt .This annual income was abolished without paying a penny on the
> ground that these services are not required by Govt
>
> These and other laws were expropriatory and would have been struck down by
> High Court being against the right to property (fundamental righrt) but
> the contitution was amended to provide that no court -includingSupreme
> Court -can question the valdity of Acts included in the spacial schedule.
> These Acts also provided that even if an Inamdar is himself cultivating
> some lands on his own ,the lands in excess of the ceiling will be taken
> over by the Govt(virtually without compensation.
> The Princes were in a much stronger position with Pkistan offerring them
> what they wanted if they joined Pakistan.And many Jagirdars who had been
> given many of these privileges and land felt that Princes have not tried
> to do do anything for them(various feudatories) .
> Shri Morarji Desai advised me to study hard,and discard the past and move
> with changing times-which I did (willingly or otherwise)
>
> Patankar
> 1st Oct 2007
>
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