Abstract
Land alienation and dispossession issues in the scheduled states are a part of critical discourse in India since Independence. There are various protective legislations and land laws passed to protect the interest of these tribal communities during colonial rule, carried forward by various state governments and central government with or without some extent of amendments in the post-colonial period. This paper studies land alienation issues in Jharkhand right from colonial period and analyses whether the phenomenon could be looked as colonial legacy in independent India.
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Wilkinson rule, 1937 is complementary rule to Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908 applied in the Kolhan division of Jharkhand (the division comprises three districts, namely East Singhbhum, Seraikela-Kharsawan district and West Singhbhum). This Act was proposed to adhere to the customary tenure system specially ‘munda-manki system’ of the Kol tribes.
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A Raiyat can be explained as a person who has acquired a right to hold particular land for the purpose of cultivation by himself, or by member of his family or by his hired servants and can be inherited by his successor. Mundari khunt-kattidars or Bhuinhari lands are lands made arable by clearing the forest first time by a man and which are inherited by his descendants along the male line.
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Chapperbandi: it refers to the process of conversion of agricultural land into non-agricultural use by declaring it homestead land and unfit for cultivation.Chapperbandi land refers to land made unsuitable for agricultural process.
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1 kath = about 40 kg of dhan (paddy).
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Bhugut Bandha means transfer of the interest of tenant in his tenancy to other with whom the land is mortgaged.
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Sinha, A.A., Behera, H.C., Behura, A.K. (2022). State and Tribal Land Alienation in Jharkhand: Following Colonial Footprints?. In: Behera, M.C. (eds) Tribe, Space and Mobilisation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0059-4_5
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