The Board of Economic Inquiry Punjab Publication No. 57 Sales of Land in South-West Punjab 1931-32 to 1933-34

in the records the patwari(vi lage accountvi.1) was to fill up one of the special forms prepared for the purposes of th's i Note (copy reproduced in Appendix F. ) ; the kanungo t when checking the correctness of the mutation entries was to ci deavour to check the correctness of the entries in these forms also and the same was to be done by the tahs'ldart or the naib-talsi!da-r§ at the time of at [...] The next table shows the total number of owners and sharholders in the three districts and the total and cultivated acreages in their possession. [...] of the cultivated area is in the hands of owners of over 50 acres.* Further it was difficult for the patwaiis when filling in the forms to find out accurately the total areas owned by the vendors and vendee's particularly the acreage owned bcyord the village or tract ; consequently such entries have been made by them as No land in the ila qa (tract) ' or Plenty of land elswhere '. Forms with [...] This table confirms the previous table in that in the majority of cases the agriculturists and the non-ag iculturists sold land to people of their own class. [...] Taking the number of transactions only irrespective of the area involved it will be seen that the small owners sold to large owners in 265 cases and bought land from them in 76 eases ;11 in other words there was an excess of 189 cases where the small sold to the large owners : in Jhang this net gain in the number of transactions by the large owners was 8 in Dera Ghazi Khan 127 and in Muzaffarg