§ 65. Mr. LANSBURY (for Colonel WEDGWOOD)asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the terms of reference of the Committee appointed to inquire into the possibility of improvements in Indian agriculture include the methods of tenure of agricultural land, 2029 and especially the two predominant systems in India known as ryotwari and zemindari?
§ Earl WINTERTONThe terms of reference lay down that it will not be within the scope of the Commission's duties to make recommendations regarding the existing system of land ownership and tenancy or of assessment of land revenue and irrigation charges. This limitation is not, however, intended to preclude the Commission from examining witnesses on these questions with a view to eliciting whether and to what extent the present conditions of agriculture, etc., are affected by them, or from referring to them in its Report as matters directly connected with the main question under inquiry. A copy of a Resolution published by the Government of India regarding the appointment of the Commission will be placed in the Library.