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Decades following the independence in 1947 were full of violent conflicts between the landless section of Bihari society and the landed elite who controlled the government at various level. This was an outcome of the failed land reform drive and improper implementation of the land ceiling laws that were passed by [[Indian National Congress]] government in the 1950s. Landed castes like [[Rajput]] and [[Bhumihar]] grewbecame suspicious of the land reforms and used their influence in government to hinder the efforts of the land redistribution programme, which may have alleviated the huge caste based income inequalities. Unscrupulous tactics such as [[absentee landlordism]] neutralized the reforms which was architected by [[Krishna Ballabh Sahay]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eDRPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA198|title=Politics And Governance In Indian States Bihar, West Bengal And Tripura|author1=Subrata Kumar Mitra|author2=Harihar Bhattacharyya|publisher=World Scientific|year=2018|isbn=978-9813208247|pages=198–200|access-date=10 June 2022|archive-date=9 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609193754/https://books.google.co.in/books?id=eDRPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA198&dq=|url-status=live}}Zamindari abolition was not immediately followed by land reforms measures, as Bhumihars and Rajputs, the landowning classes dominant in the Congress, became suspicious. K B Sahay, the main architect of the land reforms, had to restrain the efforts.This worsened the conditions of non-occupancy tenants. Fixation of ceiling and distribution of surplus land could not be imple mented effectively as these laws had a number of conciliatory provisions and the landowners could keep the land under various other categories in excess of the stipulated area.