IMPACT OF TENANCY LEGISLATION & CHANGING AGRARIAN RELATIONS 97 27. The number of Land Tribunals varied depending on the burden of work in each taluk as follows: Bantwala - 4, Belthangad - 3, Kundapura - 10, Karkala - 7, Mangalore -12, Puttur - 2, Sullia - 2 and Udupi -15. Thus there were 55 Land Tribunals in all for eight talulcs of D.K. district. See Dakshina Kannada District at a Glance, 1981-82, Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Bangalore. 28. Monthly Report of Land Reforms Progress, op.dt., p. 2. 29. Under the 1974 Act, the last date for filing declarations by tenants was 30 June 1979. 30. Atui Kohli, The State and Poverty in India, Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 176. Also see Rajpurohit, op.dt., pp. 204-205. Rajan, op.cit., pp. 153-154, Pani, op.dt, p. 446. 32. Ibid., p. 446. 33. S.X. James Melchior, 'Implementation of Land Reforms', EPW, Vol. XIV, No. 18, May 5,1979, pp. 799801. 34. The diplomatic strategy adopted by the landowners to ease the tension was revealed to us in the informal talks with the landowners and the ex-tenants. 35. In fact, a number of benefidaries induding a few leaders, who were activists in the leftist oriented raita-sanghas have come out from the organisation after securing ownership rights on their tenanted land and have joined the Congress Party in antidpation of certain new gains such as loans, subsidies, etc. 36. Statement on Land Reforms in Mysore State made in the Chief Ministers' Conference on Land Reforms held at New Delhi on 26.9.1970, taken from the Collections of Vidhana Soudha library, Bangalore, pp. 67. 37. The existence of higher rates of wages in South Kanara district compared to other parts of Madras Presidency and Mysore region has been noted as early as AD 1800 by Frauds Buchanan, A Journey Through Mysore, Canara and Malabar, 1800, p. 227. Also see, Sturrock, op.dt., pp. 210-213; Imperial Gazetter of India, Vol. XVI, Oxford, 1908, pp. 282-283; Gazetteer of Kamataka, South Kanara, op.cit,, pp. 381-384. 38. Our field work dairy. 39. Monthly Report of Land Reforms Progress, op.dt., p. 3.