Colonial Land Tax and Property Rights : The Agrarian Conditions in Andhra under the British Rule: 1858-1900

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Abbrevations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ecological Determinations of Production in Agriculture -- Soil Variations -- Rainfall -- Problems of the Rainfall Data -- Irrigation -- River Channels -- Tank Irrigation -- Well Irrigation -- Canal Irrigation and Its Effects -- Influence of Ecological Determinants on Production Conditions -- Impact of Colonial Policies on Agricultural Methods -- 3. Land Tax and Insecure Property Rights in Ryotwary Areas -- Procedure of Fixing Land Tax -- Problems in The Fixation of Tax -- Intervention -- Anomalies -- Procedural Problems -- Mode of Payment of Land Tax -- Relinquishments -- Remissions -- Arrears -- Burden of The Peasantry -- Relation between Land Revenue, Capital and Fertility of Soil -- Incidence of Land Revenue -- 4. Land Rights and Zamindari Tenants -- Consolidation of Zamindari System, 1858-1900 -- Rents Under The Zamindaries -- Feudal Form of Labour -- Legal Protection to The Zamindary Tenants -- The Case of Munagapaka Zamindary -- Rent Recovery Act VIII of 1865 -- Madras High Court's Judgement of 1871 and Its Effects -- Heavy Rates of Rent and Peasant Resistance -- 5. Rural Indebtedness and Rich Peasant Moneylending -- Moneylender and his Methods -- Who Were the Moneylenders? -- The Borrowers -- Vulnerability of the Small Peasantry -- Interest rates -- Fraud in Registrations and Giving Loans -- The Role of the Colonial State Apparatus -- Extent of Rural Indebtedness -- Rich peasant borrowings -- Small Peasant Borrowings -- Fluctuations in the mortgages -- The Quantum of Rural Indebtedness -- Causes for the Increase of Indebtedness -- Alternative Credit Systems -- Colonial Credit System, 1858-1900 -- Nidhis -- 6. Agrarian Market and Commodity Movement.