Land Reforms or Agrarian Reforms:

Meaning and Definition:

The land reforms or agrarian reforms means all those measures which are aimed at removing those obstacles which are responsible for keeping the agriculture sector backward socially and economically. Through these measures not only changes will be brought in the use and the distribution of the land, but the relationships between land lords and tenants will also be improved. Thus due to land .reforms govt. gets legal right over the possession of the lands of people (big landlords). However, in this connection govt. pays the compensation, in certain cases.

Objectives of Land Reforms or Agrarian Reforms:

The land reforms are made in order to attain certain social, political and economic objectives. They are discussed below:

(i) To Bring Political Change: The biggest objective of land reforms is to create and maintain political balance in the society. Under land reforms the big tracts of land owned by land lords and feudals are confiscated by govt., and then they are distributed amongst the land less peasants. This will not only weaken the mighty and influential feudals but it will also remove resentment amongst the poor farmers. But it has been observed that those agrarian reforms which are made without any revolution fail to bring any change in the social structure of the villages. As in case of Pakistan, despite land reforms the political power of feudals and land lords did not come down.

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