Marginalization of Reforms: A Historical study of Land reforms in Jammu and Kashmir (1931-1988)

Historical background

Concentration of land in the hands of absentee landlords coupled with unprotected tenancy rights, arbitrary and sometimes even forcible ejectment of tenants by landlords, underutilization of cultivable land and increasing exploitation of peasantry under the garb of high taxation policy and the begâr system prompted the State to initiate various agrarian laws in different phases.