The Land Systems of British India. Being A Manual of the Land-Tenures and of the Systems of Land-Revenue Administration Prevalent in the Several Provinces

I may explain that when the Land Revenue Settlement operations of # district (or part of a district) are concluded when rights have been recorded and the interests of all classes in the land set down in due form and when the assessment of the revenue on the field the village ' or the estate (as the case may be) has been determined —the Settlement officer gathers up the results of his work in [...] The Dakhan ' commonly written Dekkan or Deccan is a convenient term which is employed to signify the part of India south of the Narbada fiver and inland of the Ghats or range of hills that run down the western as well as the eastern side of the Peninsula ; but it is not employed to include the whole of the Peninsula and may be said to terminate southwards about the line of the Mysore State and t [...] (2) The Doab ' (as already stated) comprises all the districts between the Ganges and the Jamna ; (3) and 'the districts of Banda Hamirpur Jhansi Lalitpur and Jalaun are in Bunddlkhand —the country which was formerly the site of the conquest of an Aryan tribe called Bundela I. (4) There remain the ditricts east of Oudh ; and the group of permanently settled districts adjoining the Bengal fro [...] The Central Provinces' include the old Sagar and central Narbada (Saugor and Nerbudda) territories in the north and Provinces' north-west as well as the Nimdr district the Nagpur districts (escheated on the death without heirs of the BhOnsla king) the Chhatisgarh plain ' and Sambalpur. [...] The mention of Indian provinces and some of their general features has already led.me to introduce local terms and this again suggests the question of the method of writing the native names of places and the words indicating tenures offices and persons and how far the use of such terms untranslated is permissible.