STATE-WISE LEGISLATION ON ABOLITION OF INTERMEDIARIES

1.       The Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950.

2.       The Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950.

3.       The West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953.

4.       The Orissa Estate Abolition Act, 1951.

5.        

a.       The Hyderabad Abolition of Cash Grants Acts, 1952.

b.      The Andhra Pradesh (Telangana area) Abolition of Inams Act, 1954.

c.       The Andhra Pradesh Absorbed Enclaves Act, 1955.

d.      The Andhra Pradesh Jagir Regulation Act 25 of 1948.

e.      The Andhra Pradesh Estates Act, 1948.

6.       The Rajasthan land Reform and Resumption of Jagir Act, 1952.

7.       The Tamil Nadu Estates Abolition Act, 1948. (12 different acts were passed to abolish all types of intermediaries).

8.       17 Land Tenure Abolition Laws have been enacted in Maharashtra since 1949 to do away with all Inams Jagirs and other Special Tenures.

9.       The Madhya Pradesh Abolition of Proprietary Rights Act, 1950.

10.   The Intermediaries like Watandars, Inamdars, Jagirdars were Abolished by Passing 10 Acts, since 1950.

11.   Two Acts were passed in Asam to Abolish All Intermediary Tenures.

12.   The Kerala Agrarian Relation Act, 1960.

13.   The Gujarat State has enacted thirty laws to abolish all grades of intermediary tenures.

14.   Four Acts were passed in Punjab to extinguish the rights of the intermediaries and superior interests.

15.   All the laws which were in force in the composite state of Punjab (including Haryana) continued to be in force in Haryana.