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Rural Economy in the Bombay Deccan

1912

In the hilly country to the west of the Deccan the assesment was fixed by an annual pahani or eye estimate of the outturn of crops the government share of which varying with the different crops was comuted to a money payment ; and in other parts the revenue was assessed with reference to the number of ploughs that existed. [...] This system had in it many of the ele ments of the farming system of Bajirao's time which has been described above ; but the interest of these havildars who remained in office for long periods was identified with the prosperity of the villages and they acted as a useful buffer between the subhedar and the ryots raising loans in bad years to meet the demands of the subhedars and recouping the [...] To fix the actual pitch of the assessment he took in the first instance the former hasessment of the land apportioned it out amongst the lands of the village on the basis of his classifiction and then modified it when necessary on a cosideration of his estimates of the net profits of the particular classes of land. [...] In the majority of cases in the Deccan the rents paid to landholders for the use of the land are from three to four times the assessment while rents of six or eight times the assessment are not uncommon and in the case of garden lands the rents often amount to thirty or forty times the assessment and more. [...] The points to which attention is paid on such occasions are the general prosperity of the tract the ease with which the revenue has been raised under the previous settlment the development of the tract by means of improved corJmunications any rise or fall in the purchasing value of money the price obtained for staple products and the value of land as evidenced by the sums paid for occupanc
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Pages
238
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.146764
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxii G. Keatinge view
Part I. Land
1-55 G. Keatinge view
Part II. Labour
56-79 G. Keatinge view
Part III. Capital
80-145 G. Keatinge view
Part IV. The Business Side of Farming
146-180 G. Keatinge view
Part V. State Aid to Agriculture
181-208 G. Keatinge view
Glossary of Indian Terms for the Use of English Readers
209-210 G. Keatinge view
Index
211-212 G. Keatinge view

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