benam

Thus they brought the poor peasantry in the vortex of movement by talking of recovery and distribution of benam land, but apparently shifted to the struggle for seizure of power.

Archive 2006-06-01 Abhay N 2006

It started with a movement on the demand for recovery of benam land, that is, land held under false names unlawfully and distribution of the same to the landless and poor peasants.

Archive 2006-06-01 Abhay N 2006

And in that event, the very struggle of Naxalbari to recover benam land from the rich peasants or jotedars would suffer from an inexplicable self-contradiction.

Archive 2006-06-01 Abhay N 2006

As we mentioned at the outset, the movement in Naxalbari crystallized based on the most legitimate democratic demands of retrieving benam land.

Archive 2006-06-01 Abhay N 2006

1885 Þā wæs on gange gifu Hrōðgāres oft geæhted: þæt wæs ān cyning ǣghwæs orleahtre, oð þæt hine yldo benam mægenes wynnum, sē þe oft manegum scōd.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

1885 Þâ wäs on gange gifu Hrôðgâres oft geæhted: þät wäs ân cyning æghwäs orleahtre, ôð þät hine yldo benam mägenes wynnum, se þe oft manegum scôd.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879