THE AGRICULTURE TENANCY ACT 1948 A LAW WAS PASSED IN FAVOUR OF THE
PEASANTS. IT BROUGHT A DEVASTATING CHANGE IN THE SOCIETY. FOR HUNDRED
YEARS, THE SOCIETY HAD DEVELOPED A PARTICULAR SYSTEM, BASED ON IT
EVERYTHING WAS RUNNING SMOOTHLY. BUT THIS LAW SHATTERED EVERY THING IN
EVERBODY`S LIFE. THE EFFECT ON THE SLOW AND SLEEPING MINDS WAS
DEVASTATING. IT RESEMBLED THE BARREN LAND WHICH WAS PLOUGHED FOR THE
FIRST TIME. EVERYTHING WAS CENTRED AROUND THE LAND AND EVERYTHING
CHANGED. THE INAMDARS, THE WATANDARS, PEASANTS, POOJARI, BARA
BALUTEDARS, DESAIS, DESHMUKHS, DESHPANDES, KULKARNI, KHOTS ALL WERE
SHAKEN IN GOOD TERMS AS WELL AS BAD TERMS. LABOURES WHO WERE LIVING IN
BIG CITIES HAD SAVED AMOUNT OVER YEARS, HAD BOUGHT LAND IN VILLAGES, HAD
GIVEN IT TO THE PEASANTS FOR CULTIVATION, THEY ALSO LOST IT TO THE
PEASANTS BECAUSE OF THE ACT. THESE WERE THE DAYS WHEN EVERYTHING AROUND
WAS CHANGING FAST. THE DEMOCRACY CHANGED INDIA IN MANY WAYS. THE
REFORMATION WAS TAKING PLACE ALL OVER, IN ALL CLASSES AND MASSES, AND AT
ALL LEVELS. THE MOST SHATTERED WAS THE JOINT FAMILY SYSTEMS IN THE
VILLAGES. THE TENANCY ACT GAVE RISE TO DIVISION THAT OF HOUSE, THAT OF
LAND AND THAT OF HUMAN BEINGS. THERE WERE DISPUTES BETWEEN ALL POSSIBLE
RELATIONS. NOBODY WAS SPARED. FATHERSON, BROTHERBROTHER, FAMILIES LOST
THEIR LOVE AGAINST THE LUST. THE RURAL LIFE SUFFERED HEAVILY. THEIR LIFE
WAS SHATTERED BEYOND MEASURES. THESE CHANGES ARE PENNED DOWN IN THE TWO
LONG STORIES PERAUGAWALA & PANDHUR UTHALI. THEY WILL LEAVE YOU IN
TURMOIL.
