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337:(sharing by thirds) movement was to reduce the landlord share to one third. In many areas the agitations turned violent, and landlords fled, leaving parts of the countryside in the hands of Kisan Sabha. In 1946 sharecroppers began to assert that they would pay only one-third and that before division the crop would stay in their
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Sundarbans to various parts of North Bengal raised their demand for Tevaga. The main leaders of this movement include
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played a leading role in getting surplus land held by big land owners in excess of land ceiling laws and kept ‘benami’ (or false names) vested with the state. The quantum of land thus vested was around one million acres (4,000 km²) of good agricultural land. Subsequently, under the leadership of
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were the storm centres of the movement. The movement aimed at improving the share of the peasant engaged as sharecroppers. The movement continued till 1950, when the
Bargadari Act was enacted. The act recognised the right of the sharecropper to two-thirds of the produce when he provided the inputs.
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ministry in the province launched the
Bargadari Act, which provided that the share of the harvest given to the landlords would be limited to one third of the total. However, the law was not fully implemented. The Bengal Land Revenue Commission popularly known as Floud Commission had made
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to a higher share of crops from the land that they tilled, it was not implemented. Large tracts, beyond the prescribed limit of land ceiling, remained with the rich landlords. In 1967,
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provided relief to the peasantry of the
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657:1946 in British India
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364:Bengal Famine of 1943
319:All India Kisan Sabha
446:Haji Mohammad Danesh
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341:and not that of the
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329:History
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