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Many people feel that the land reform actually harmed a large number of tenants-at- will. Do you agree with this view? Give reasons.

Yes, I agree with this view because Tenants-at-will were those tenants which could be evicted at the will of landlords and landlords evicted the tenants to cultivate on their land and retained their land by using loopholes of the land reforms. But the tenants-at-will lost their little source of income and harmed badly.


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