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under this tenure is small, and the land-tax imposed is not 

 liable to enhancement. 



The fifth and by far the most numerous class comprises 

 the ryotwar puttadars or peasant proprietors. The total 

 number of estates on this tenure is 2,850,000 and the number 

 of owners including shareholders is 4,600,000. The total 



area of ryotwar villages is 59 '3 

 million acres, from which 31 

 million acres must be deducted 

 on account of unculturable 

 waste and lands held on inam 

 tenure and lying interspersed 

 with ryotwar holdings, leaving 

 28'3 millions which, at present, 

 are considered fit for cultiva- 

 tion. Of this area 21*2 million 

 acres, paying a revenue to 

 Government including cesses 

 of a little more than Rs. 2 per 

 acre, are comprised within ryot- 

 war holdings, the remainder 

 being unoccupied. The mar- 

 ginally - noted statement ^^ 

 shows the distribution of the 

 ryot-war puttadars into several 

 grades, with reference to the 

 amount of tax paid by them. 

 The revenue statistics of this 

 Presidency do not show the 

 distribution according to the 

 areas, but the revenue paid is 

 a better index to the status 

 of a ryot than the area of 

 holding, and the area can 

 be roughly deduced from the 

 revenue, by assuming that each 

 acre pays Rs. 2 as land-tax. 



** It would be interesting to compare these results with the distribution of land 

 among several grades of proprietors in France which is as follows : 



