§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary of State for India if he will state the average percentage on the gross produce of agriculture which the Government of India levies in the form of land assessment on agriculturists in each presidency in India.
272 (Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) The Resolution which the Government of India have recently published on the Land Revenue Systems of British India summarises the available information on the subject. In districts where the assessments are based on the rents levied by zemindars, or intermediate landlords, the land revenue bears no direct relation to the gross produce. Elsewhere the assessments arc on the cultivators, and the ratio varies from 4 per cent. to 20 per cent.