6.3 Birta Eradication Act, 2016 (1959) — The First Reform

The birta tenure's abolition instrument (U5.1): all birta land converted to raikar — the registers' conversion, the revenue obligation's restoration, the grantees' position regularized as ordinary holders. The Act's significance (the marks): the first great post-1951 reform — the state's revenue sovereignty and the patronage economy's dismantling; the template for the reform century's method (tenure-by-tenure conversion into the standard registered holding). Its "latest amendments" — the transitional provisions and the residual conversion cases long spent; the Act's place in the paper: historical and comparative (the abolition method's model for the later statutes).