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The tenants were planning to sue their landlords for fair returns on the cotton crop.
The beneficiaries are overwhelmingly large landlords and industrial capital.
The identification of these petty landlords, though at times a tortuous process, is not impossible; their tenants are another matter.
Cultivators included both well-off landlords and their much poorer tenants.
In such ways the landlords were thought to be responsible for failing to give tenants 'a fair field' in their struggle against foreign competition.
The provision of capital was divided between landlords and tenants.
Improvement on the ground involved other social groups than the landlords and their agents.
Inhabitation of a portion of land was to be more emphatically on the landlord's terms.
Evidence from this study contrasts with assumptions of strict control by landlords based on their theoretical powers.
In these cases, landlords or their agents often had privileged access to market information and could provide better managerial skills.
Fixed investment such as in liming or buildings was usually financed by landlords, although tenants had to provide the labour.
What motivated the landlords to drive older tenants out of their property by harassment ?
Thus, small traders, indigenous producers and small farmers have to depend upon friends, relatives, landlords and money-lenders for loans.
He appears to be answering some critic, not identified, who has objected that ecclesiastical landlords are not hereditary and may not come from the nobility.
They had the power to force landlords to pay for improvements on their estates over which they had little or no control.
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