Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government (No. CCCLX - New Series) Papers relating to the Revision Survey Settlement of the Chorasi Taluka of the Surat Collectorate

The.port of Surat as will be seen from the Gazetteer was before the railway was built the main outlet of the trade of the country. [...] It seems to me that the figure for the later year is quite wrong in that in 1891 the year of the imperial census the population was 49 941 and no great calamity took place between 1891 and 1895 to account for the more than decimation of the population the comparison of the data would imply. [...] In the case of the exception Geglia the prices before the survey period are not availa6le but asits port is so small and has since the construction of the Bhavnagar Railway keen but ruined by the Bhavnagar port it presents no special features.' The salient features ot the other Wakes are low prices before the survey ;and higher since the beginning of it owing to the combined influence of e [...] It will therefore not be deemed strange that the prices of the Wake in the case of two of the five cotmodities quoted in the appendix the average price of the last decade of the survey lease is lower than that of the six years of the pre-survey time These six years however include the years when the influence of the. [...] The subjoined table shows the estimated result of the application of the proposed rates to all Government occupied lands of the taluka.