GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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the uprooting of Zamindari system and the end of serfdom
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writing off all peasant debts
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the reduction of the share of the landlords from one-half of the crop to one-third
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the grant of ownership of land to peasants as they were the actual cultivators of the land
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Detailed explanation-1: -At that time sharecroppers had contracted to give half of their harvest to the landlords. The demand of the Tebhaga (sharing by thirds) movement was to reduce the landlord share to one third.
Detailed explanation-2: -Further, in late 1946, the sharecroppers (bargadars, bhagchasis or adhiar) of Bengal began to assert, that they would pay not a half share of their crop to the jotedars, but only one-third and that before the division of the crop, it would be stored in their own khamars (godowns) and not that of the jotedars.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tebhaga movement was due to the share cropping system that prevailed in the Bengal. It was initiated by Kisan Sabha in Bengal. It was the sharecroppers’ movement demanding two thirds of the produce from land for themselves and one third for the landlords.
Detailed explanation-4: -The ryotwari system was a land revenue system in British India introduced by Thomas Munro, which allowed the government to deal directly with the cultivator (’ryot’) for revenue collection and gave the peasant freedom to cede or acquire new land for cultivation.