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The Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1956

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The Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1956 abolishes the historical inam system of tax-free land grants and converts these properties into direct ryotwari tenure. Applying to traditional landholders, tenant farmers, and religious or charitable institutions in the Andhra region, this law regulates how official land ownership titles, known as ryotwari pattas, are granted. It reinstates wrongfully evicted tenants, secures permanent occupancy rights, and bars civil courts from overturning revenue administration decisions. Ultimately, the Act replaces feudal intermediary privileges with direct land ownership and tax obligations to the state.

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  1. 0. Preamble
  2. 1. Short title, extent, application and commencement
  3. 2. Definitions
  4. 3. Determination of Inam lands
  5. 4. Grant of Ryotwari Pattas
  6. 5. Reinstatement of tenants who were in occupation of inam lands in inam villages on the 7th January, 1948, but were evicted from such lands before the commencement of this Act
  7. 6. Determination of the one third share of the inam land in the occupation of a tenant
  8. 7. Grant of Ryotwari Pattas
  9. 8. Right of permanent occupancy to tenants in inam lands held by institutions in inam villages
  10. 9. Procedure for evicting tenants having right of permanent occupancy
  11. 10. Inam lands to be leased after eviction of a tenant under Section 9
  12. 12. Liability to pay ryotwari assessment
  13. 13. Tahsildar, Revenue Court and Collector to have powers of a Court in certain matters
  14. 14. Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts
  15. 15. Act to override other laws
  16. 16. Power to remove difficulties
  17. 17. Power to make rules