Final Report on the Survey and Settlement of the Government and Temporarily settled estates of certain private estates  in the Patna District  1901 to 1904

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Final Report on the Survey and Settlement of the Government and Temporarily settled estates of certain private estates in the Patna District 1901 to 1904

1907

The interest of Behar is largely historical but with the opening of the light railway connecting this place with Bukhtiarpur it promises to become the chief collecting and distributing centre for the grain traffic of the south-eastern quarter of the district. [...] A comparison of the other figures shows that except in respect of goats for a large number of which the bare hills of Ghorakatora in the south of the district provide grazing the zamindari estates are much better off than the Government estates generally. [...] The other three were all recent purchases and the object of the proprietors was in the case of the flint two the identification of the property purchased one of them Salempur could only be surveyed as it was found to be purely urban area within the limits of the Barh Municipality ; for the other a record-of-rights was prepared. [...] As the figures given in the detailed statement in the Appendix show this bears no sort of proportion to the difference between the area now recorded as cultivated and the nominal cultivated area of the last settlement reports; as a matter of fact the figures given show an actual shrinkage of cultivation much if not all of which is however due to confusion between cultivated and settled area. [...] LMesurier anticipated a general application of the provisions of section 30 (b) and an all round enhancement of some 2 annas in the rupee on account of the rise in prices of food grains : but experience showed that in the majority of cases rates were already high and the bulk of the small enhancement proposed was either on account of extended cultivation in the shape of excess areas " or in
government politics public policy
Pages
57
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii H. Coupland view
Frontmatter
i-iii H. Coupland view
Chapter I. General
1-8 H. Coupland view
Chapter II. History of the Estates under Settlement and Effect of the Present Operation on Rents and Revenue
8-13 H. Coupland view
Chapter III. Present Operations
13-24 H. Coupland view
Appendix
iii-xix H. Coupland view
Department of Land Records Bengal
1-4 H. Coupland view
Board of Revenue L.P.
1-4 H. Coupland view