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| Article Name : | | | Memorandums, Reports And Observations Of British Officials Over The Relations Of Land Lords And Agrarian Slaves In The First Half Of Ninteeenth Century Tamil Country | | Author Name : | | | D. Victoria | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2677 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Memorandums, reports and observations of the British officials throw much light on the condition, position and status of the slaves of serfs in the agrarian sector of Tamil Country in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. They also highlight the existing relations between the Native Land Lords and Zamindars and the Serfs of the soil, and the humanitarian measures of the British Government for the abolition of the slavery. Generally the British administrative reports pointed out the Land Lords were wealthy and were in influence and affluence. The position of the serfs were low, they were not suffered in economic sense. To some extent, they were in par with free labourers. The slaves were much attached to the land of the Land Lords and worked hard to the improvement of the land and produce of the soil. There was cordial relations between the Land Lords and slaves. The slaves received all the privileges, allowances and benefits on the important occasions. In some times, they were sold with the land form one Land Lord to another. The Memorandum Of Srinivasa Raghava Iyengar, the observation of Sesha Iyengar, the Mirasi Papers of F.W. Ellis, inquiry of the Board of Rveenue of 1819, Francis Buchanan, Journey Account of Francis Buchannan from Madras through the Countries of Mysore,Canara and Malabar,A.D. Campbell remarks before the Selection Committee on 1832, Remarks of Charles Hayes the Collector of South Arcot before the select Committee of the House of Lords in 1830, Places's Report on the Jahire, 6 June 1799, Various proceedings of the Board of Revenue, Report on Slavery, 1890, and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1843 throw much information on the subject of serfdom in Tamil Country. | | Keywords : | | - Land Lords, Zamindars, Mirasidars, Inamdars, Serfs, Slaves, Labourers, Ryotwari, Mirasi, Slavery.,
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