82 Ms. Hodgson's Description of the Village of Pudu-vayal. 



Having thus exhibited the interests of the cultivators in this village, I 

 proceed to detail the interests of the grantee. A reference to the statement 

 in the Appendix will shew, that in the year 1783, the year preceding the 

 grant of the village to the servant of Sir Eyre Coote, a year of war and 

 drought in the Carnatic, the revenue of the sovereign, as collected in grain 

 at the rate of 57^ per cent, of the produce, after a deduction of 10 per cent, 

 and converted into money by the public servants of the sovereign, amounted 

 to two hundred and eighty-two pagodas. Had tlie grantee been in posses- 

 sion that year, and had he paid three hundred pagodas as reserved revenue, 

 he would have lost eighteen pagodas, and the expenses of collection also. 

 The largest profit exhibited in the statement is in the twenty-first year of 

 possession by the grantee. In that year, although the extent of land culti- 

 vated was not above the average quantity, and the grain produced was actu- 

 ally less than that of some of the preceding years, yet the gross revenue in 

 money realized by the grantee amounted to Star pagodas 1,042 



The grantee paid a reserved revenue of 3^7 



His gross profit was 715 



His expenses of collection were 88 



His net profit was Star pagodas G27 



The very next year but one exhibits another result, viz. an almost entire 

 defalcation of cultivation, owing to a great drought ; but an excessively high 

 price, giving great value to a very small produce. 

 The gross revenue under these circumstances amounted to Starpags. 215 

 Payment of the reserved revenue 327 



Loss 112 



To which add charges of management and collection for that year ... 55 



Total Loss 167 



The cultivators must equally have experienced the vicissitudes of the 

 seasons ; but paying the dues of the grantee in kind, the amount of these 

 dues was in proportion to the produce, and the real loss to the cultivators 

 only that of their labour and seed. 



In describing the respective beneficial interests in this village, I have 

 avoided the use of technical terms. I have not called the village occupants 



