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3. Certain localities or communities have been tenants and tried to make them successful
benefitted by these resources. The govern- by schemes like Community Development
ment has tried to take these reforms to the Programmed and cooperatives.

Terminology

Liberalisation : the removal or loosening of restrictions on something, typically an economic or political
system
Perspective : a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view
Miniscule : extremely small or tiny
Agrarian : relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land
Abolitions : the action of abolishing a system, practice or institution
Exemption : the action of freeing or state of being free from an obligation or liability imposed on
others

Inside Story
Inside Story
g India has witnessed an enormous agrarian change after independence

g The State Governments of UP, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Chennai and Assam were some of
the first States to implement land tenure legislations for abolition of Zamindari.

g The government also introduced ceiling on land-holdings as part of the reforms.
g The first phase of land reforms was a legacy of the peasant movements of the pre-
independence era.
g The government used factors like Zamindari Abolition Act, legislation, ceilings, technology
and irrigation techniques to improve production.

A. Tick (3) the correct option.
1. Zamindari was the __________ attempt at agrarian transformation by the states in India.

(a) first (b) second (c) third
2. The first phase of land reform after independent aimed at abolition of intermediaries
like :
(a) Zamindars (b) Jagirdars (c) both (a) & (b)

3. __________ was passed in different parts of the country.
(a) Zamindari Abolition Act (b) Coercive Method
(c) Reduction of Rents

4. Operation Barza was launched by West Bengal government in :
(a) 1972 (b) 1988 (c) 1978

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