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TABLE 2.1
Classification of Holdings After Zamindari
Abolition
Notes: (1) The area figures both for the State as well as
sample villages are the averages for three years,
viz. 1957-58 to 1959-60.
(2) Figures for the State are computed from Rental
and Holding Registers of the Board of Revenue by
Baljit Singh A Misra.
Source: Baljit Singh and Shridhar Misra, A Study of Land
Reforms in Uttar Pradesh. Calcutta, 1964, p.121.
TABLE 2.2
Administrative Divisions of Uttar Pradesh Arranged by
Percentage of Bhumidhari Area to total Area unrl<»r
ilutilliMjti ( IOh<j 0 0 )
TABLE 2.3
Average Size of Cultivated Holdings in the
Sample Villages Before Zamindari Abolition in U.P.
TABLE 2.4
Average Size of Cultivated Holdings of Sample
Households After Zamindari Abolition (in acres)
(Average for the years 1957-58 to 1959-eO)
A. Region
i. Western 8.99 7.60 7.63 5.39
B. Occupation
i. Farmers 22.14 11 .83 - -
TABLE 2.5
Estimate of percentage Distribution of All Cultivating
Households in Sample Villages and of the Area Cultivated
by Them after Zamindari Abolition in U.P.(1960-61)
By Size of Cultivated Holdings And By
Principal Tenures of Households
TABLE 2.6
Changes in the Pattern of Tenancy in U.P.
3. Area leased-in
(a) ('000 acres) 3680 NA 5385
Op.cit., pp.334-335.
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TABLE 2.7
Distribution of Sample Households And the Area Taken
by Share-croppers After Zamindari Abolition by Size
of Holdings and Tenures in U.P. During 1960-61
Principal Tanuraa
9ourca! BalJIt 91ngh and Shrldhar Mlara. A ?tudv of Land. Raforma _1h_Uttar
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of t h e i r holdings respectively.
following table.
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TABLE 2.8
Distribution of Households by Principal
Tenures and the Area Held and Cultivated
By Them in U.P. During 1960-61
TABLE 2.9
Percentage of Area Under Sub-tenancy to the Total Area
Under Agfi^icultural Holdings
Ibid., p.1545.
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A major reason f o r t h e i n c r e a s e i n t h e c o n c e n t r a t i o n o f
AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS
The position of the agricultural labourers in U.P. can
be seen from the fact that out of some 14000 rural households
studied by Singh and Misra nearly 2300 (79 share-croppers and
2207 casual and regular farm workers), i.e. 16.43 per cent
were those of agricultural labourers. Out of these only 445
i.e. less than one-fifth (19.35 per cent) had some land to
cultivate. Again, out of 149 sample cultivating households
of agricultural labourers as many as 48 (32.22 per cent) were
1. Op.cit., p.1545.
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of s h a r e - c r o p p i n g . T h i s r e s u l t e d i n t h e e x p l o i t a t i o n o f small