THE LANDLORD AND TENANT STRUGGLE 75 



employed. Now, on the contrary, a reaction has set 

 in. Land seems more valuable. Tenants who gave 

 up occupancy land in times of distress reassert claims 

 to it. Landlords, on the other hand, oppose such 

 claims, and endeavour in all other cases to render 

 impossible the acquisition of rights of occupancy. . . ." 

 The increase in Rohilkhand was most marked in Mora- 

 dabad, where 568 more notices were issued than in the 

 previous year. The Collector again reports acute 

 tension between landlords and tenants, and remarks 

 on the constant resistance of the landlords to the 

 growth of occupancy rights, which secure to the tenant 

 a fixed cash rent. 



* There is little to be added to the remarks on the 

 subject of ejectment notices that were made in the last 

 report ; and the statistics of the year under review 

 support, on the whole, the conclusions then stated, 

 that these notices tend to become more numerous 

 when the seasons are prosperous. Besides this, the 

 approach of settlement in some districts is intensifying 

 the struggle between landlords and tenants over rights 

 of occupancy. This struggle is the inevitable result of 

 the law in respect to occupancy right, which confers 

 fixity of tenure on those tenants who succeeded in 

 retaining their holdings for a period of twelve years ; 

 and it is by no means to the ultimate advantage of the 

 majority of the tenants who engage in it. The un- 

 doubted benefits of the tenancy clauses of the Rent 

 Act are attended by a serious drawback in the amount 

 of litigation which they produce.' 



In the following year the Board (Revenue Adminis- 

 tration Report, 1893-94) recorded that 'applications 

 under section 36 for ejectment of tenants-at-will rose 

 from 65,665 to 72,105, an increase of 6,440. 



There was reason to believe that some unscrupulous 

 landlords had recourse to other means that were 

 less legitimate than simple eviction for preventing 

 the accrual of occupancy rights, and an uneasy con- 



