Word: pradesh
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Later, criminal tribesmen were given a chance to reform. Many settlements were placed in the care of the Salvation Army, various missions and philanthropic organizations. Children were sent to school, taught useful trades. This work was carried on after India became independent. Last week the state of Uttar Pradesh, following the example of Bombay and Madras, repealed the Criminal Tribes Act, thus freeing all but a small percentage of India's criminal tribesmen from their semi-prison existence...
Some 12 million Indians last week celebrated an independence day of their own with laughter and tears, street parades, community sings and free candy for the kids. In the state of Uttar Pradesh it was Deliverance Day, the day that marked the end of zamindari, a system of tax collecting which has held most of India's plain people in thrall since the Middle Ages...
Unconstitutional. For 30 years the Congress Party of Prime Minister Nehru has cried for the abolition of zamindari, but India's constitution leaves land reform to the individual states. For five, the powerful zamindars themselves fought a bill to outlaw their kind in Uttar Pradesh, largest in population of the 28 states. Last year the bill was passed, and the zamindars hired the best lawyers they could find to prove it unconstitutional. Led by Nehru, India's parliament amended the constitution against the zamindars. The Supreme Court upheld Nehru. Last week Uttar Pradesh's law came into...
...Uttar Pradesh's 12 million peasants will henceforth pay taxes direct to the government. They may no longer be evicted from the land they till, even though a zamindar claims it. Those willing to pay ten years of taxes in advance will be granted full ownership of their plots, including the right to sell. Meanwhile, the 2,000,000-odd dispossessed zamindars of Uttar Pradesh, many of them only small holders themselves, will be paid for their lost lands at a rate eight times the land's annual tax value...
...congratulate you on the abolition of the system," Prime Minister Nehru told 50,000 peasants of his native Uttar Pradesh last week. "At last," said one of the cheering crowd who heard him at Modinagar, "I can walk erect...