The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday July 9th 1878

While the occupancy ryot' is being destroyed by the ten thousand under the Temple-settlement of the Central Provinces and is doomed to disappear the class is steadily' growing under the Saler-Jung-settlement of the Nizain. [...] The tenor of the document or Meerm-puttut (pottah) nfo it was called invariably runs that " the possession " is conferred from generation -tr-generatim9__ as long as the "grantee or his heirs shall continue to pay the-VISSer.11iliZ4 " assessment according to the established usage of the village." The deeds were granted by the mookudamrn or pate) of the village all the Maihubars or magnates of [...] Encumbered Estates Act into the Council ; and we find his assuring that Council as follows The amount of the debts of the taluqdar would be ascertained and the officer Appointed to manage the estate would adopt systematic measuresfo" paying off the whole of them * * The management of no estate would be undertaken without the Chief Commissioner having satisfied himself that it would be relieved [...] But they cannot pretend to hold a brief for the other side and in the assumed character of defenders of the interests of the ryots deprecate the conferring upon them of the right to sell their own as likely to be injurious to them. [...] Sir Ashley Eden wisely put an end to the folly and the enterprise of the local government in the way of improving the agriculture of the country is now reduced to a modest subscription of Re.