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Government of Bengal Land Revenue Commission. Indian Land-System: Ancient Medeival and Modern (With Special Reference to Bengal)

1940

250 B. C.) refers to the taxes called Bali and Bheiga (share of the produce) which the village Lumbini know in Nepal Tara)) had to bear until the king remitted the former completely and reduced the latter to 1' /8 ( Ubalike Kate atha-bheigiye cha) out of regard for the fact that the village was the place where the great Buddha was born and hence a most sacred place. [...] Of seedlings belonging to a private person grown upon ground the property of the Saingha you nay have the use when ycu have given a part to the private owner." This points to the system whereby seedlings were divided equally betw een the owner of the seeds and of the land on which the sends Were sown.- The Buddhist Viharas were generally possessed of extensive grounds for the cultivation of w [...] The value of the work is due to the precision of its language in the style of a legal treatise ; to its author who was responsible for the establishment of the Maurya Empire under Chandragupta in about 323 B. C. and thus had a direct Lnd intimate knowledge of 'actual administration ; and to the age of the work which though not precisely dateable contains an account of conditions resembling that [...] The names of all the individual proprietors of the holdings were enterel in the village records together with the boundaries of the holdings which were fixed by a separate class of officers called Simäkarmakara. [...] The Vishayapa'i or the Divisional Commissioner administered with the assistance (puroge saritvyavaharati) of an Advisory Council consisting of (1) the Nagara-greshthi representing the town; (2) the Siirthavdha representing Trade ; 3) the Prathamakulika reprer4enting Industry and (4) Prathama-Keiyatha the Chief Secretary representing the Käyasthas or scribes as a class as the expert in respec
agriculture environment
Pages
121
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141160
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv Radha Kumud Mookerji view
Part-I Ancient
1-24 unknown view
Part-II Mediaeval
25-44 unknown view
Part-III Modern (Upto 1793 with reference to Bengal)
45-112 unknown view
Index of Names
i-v unknown view

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