Bare Act

The Rajasthan Jagir Lands Resumption (Validating) Act, 1957

This Act regulates the government's acquisition of jagir lands, which were traditional revenue-generating estates in Rajasthan, applying directly to feudal landowners and state authorities. It legally validates past governmental acquisitions of these estates that faced legal challenges due to technicalities over rent-rate determinations. By redefining settled land to include areas where official rent rates applied to at least seventy-five percent of the territory, the law prevented court rulings from overturning these actions. This matters because it permanently secured Rajasthan's critical post-independence land reforms, protecting the transition away from feudalism and ensuring administrative stability for rural land tenure.

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