... revenue. Mostly the zamindars had to collect the tax from the primary cultivators in return for an allowance of one-tenth of the collections given in the form of cash or allotment of revenue free land. Thus Jagirdars and Zamindars were the two groups of revenue collectors during the Mughal period but with the declining days of the Mughal Empire, this system ... by paying the price to the landlord. At the beginning of the First Five Year Plan, the Union Government asked for regulation of rent by State Governments, which was too high in pre-independence era. Different State Governments pa...

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... was educated at Antonio D'Souza High School and Wilson College, Bombay and Birkbeck College, London. Ezekiel was an editor of the journal PEN for several years and has been a guiding force of the Poetry Circle in Bombay and a chief promoter of good poetry in English. He offers critical guidance to several young poets. Some of his major works include several collections of poetry, for instance, A ... Time to Change (1952), Sixty Poems (1953), The Third (1959), The Unfinished Man (1960), The Exact Name (1965), Three Plays (1969) and Snakeskin and Other Poems (1974). Characteristics ... of...

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