Question

What was Janman land?
A) The land under control of Brahmins.
B) The land under the control of the Naduvazhikal.
C) The land passed on from one generation to another.
D) The land under the control of the temples.

Answer 1

Hint: The transformation of agrarian society in Kerala during the two past centuries has generated a lot of academic and popular interest. The nature of agrarian economy that existed in the colonial period has been examined in some detail, and the patterns of agrarian change in the more recent period have been subject to much discussion

Complete answer:
Option A: It is an incorrect answer as Brahmaswam was the land under the control of the Brahmins.
Option B: During the Medieval period in Kerala, there were three large types of land based on the right of possession. They were Cherikkal, Devaswam and Brahmaswam. The land that the Naduvazhis ruled was called Cherikkal. This is an incorrect option.
Option C: Janman implies a frame of genetic restrictive right already predominant within the State of Kerala. Janman lands were originally held by some zamindari families. There were numerous changes within the arrival proprietorship rights between the 12th and 18th centuries CE in Kerala. The rights over the arrival passed on from one era to another and got to be a birthright. This kind of arrival came to be known as Janman Arrive. The Nilambur Kovilagam possessed 80,088 sections of land within the Gudalur taluk. The jammies were for the most part truant proprietors. The lands were for the most part had and developed by the tenants and encroachers beneath the Malabar Tenure Act. The Gudalur Janmam Inheritances (Annulment and Change into Ryotwari) of 1969 was an act indicating vesting of agrarian land to the cultivators.The Malabar Act was for vesting the private woodland with the State Government and this arrangement was struck down by the Court as unlawful.
Option D: It is an incorrect option as Devaswom was referred to the land under the control of temples.

Note: The individuals who had the possession right over those lands as Janmis. These zamindars, individuals of a regal family, were called ‘janmies’ in Malayalam and their lands, Janmam Bequest.