Emergence of the “Diku” in Chotanagpur | Jharkhand Land Laws
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Emergence of the “Diku” in Chotanagpur | Jharkhand Land Laws

An insightful look into how the penetration of the colonial market economy transformed Chotanagpur and Santhal Pargana. Explore the rise of the ‘Diku’, the commercialization of ancestral tribal lands through exploitative instruments like Sudposgi and Kewala, and how usurious debt traps and agrarian displacement triggered forced migration to the tea gardens of Assam—reshaping the region’s land, labour, and resistance.
From Act X to Rakhal Bhuinhari Survey | Jharkhand Land Laws
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From Act X to Rakhal Bhuinhari Survey | Jharkhand Land Laws

Excerpt Explore the evolution of Jharkhand’s agrarian tenancy laws from Act X of 1859 to the Rakhal Survey of 1869, covering ryot classification, the Calcutta High Court verdict, Non-Regulation exceptionalism, Thak Survey, Bhuinhari rights, and the Chota Nagpur Tenures Act, 1869. An essential historical and legal study module for JPSC, JSSC and UPSC aspirants.