The 1[Maharashtra Personal Inams Abolition Act]
The 1[Maharashtra Personal Inams Abolition Act]
This Act regulates historical land grants known as personal inams by abolishing them and integrating the land into the standard state revenue system in the Bombay area of Maharashtra. It applies to personal inam holders, known as inamdars, requiring them to pay standard land revenue as regular occupants. Political, religious, and charitable grants are excluded. This legislation matters because it modernizes land administration, transfers public sites and uncultivated lands to the state government, and replaces outdated feudal privileges with a uniform taxation system, while offering affected holders government-issued interest-bearing bonds as compensation for their lost rights.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Act not to apply to certain inams and grants.
- 4. Abolition of personal inams and rights in respect of such inams.
- 5. Liability of inam village or inam land to payment of land revenue and inamdar and permanent holder to be occupant.
- 6. Compensation for abolition of cash allowance.
- 7. All public roads, etc., situate in inam villages to vest in Government.
- 8. Right to trees.
- 9. Deleted.
- 10. Compensation to inamdars for extinguishment of rights under section 7.
- 11. Appeal against Collector’s award.
- 12. Procedure before Revenue Tribunal.
- 13. Limitation.
- 14. Court-fees.
- 15. Finality of award and decision of Revenue Tribunal.
- 16. Inquiries and proceedings to be judicial proceedings.
- 16A. Method of compensation for extinguishment of certain rights.
- 17. Method of compensation for abolition, etc., of other rights in property.
- 17A. Amount of compensation to be payable in transferable bonds.
- 18. Provisions of Bom. LXVII of 1948 to govern the relations of inamdar and tenants.
- 19. Rules.
- 20. Modification and discontinuance of application of certain enactments.
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