A Study of Land Reforms in Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Land Reforms have been on the nations agenda, the exclusive pressure on cultivate lands the concentration of land proprietorship, the heavy indebtedness of peasants and urgent need to increase production, modernizing methods of cultivation all these have had accumulative effects on land tenure and land reform legislation. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the land reforms undertaken by the Tamil Nadu government. Different revenue systems has been introduced, but the system of land tenure in Tamil Nadu was divided into two major categories, the Zamindari and Ryotwari tenures which was placed on a statutory basis during the British rule.