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(j) — Statement showing the mahanum prices of paddy per Tanjore kalarn (24 

 Madras Measures) for a series of years in the Tanjore District. 



■ The mode of calculating the average current selling price for each mahanum is as 

 follows: — Paddy grown in Tanjore consists oi two main species — kar, the early crop, 

 and pasanura, the later crop ; the cultivation of kar constitutes about one-fifth of the 

 entire wet cultivation of the Tanjore delta and the practice is therefore to make up the 

 general average by taking one-fifth of the average price of kar and four-fifths of that of 

 pasanum. The averages are struck from actual sales in villages belonging to each 

 mahanum; for kar from 1st November to 31st January and for pasanum from 1st 

 February to 20th May. The village sales are returned by the kurnam every five days, 

 and from them the Tahsildar compiles a return every ten days and transmits it to the 

 Collector's office, where the averages are struck. These returns of sales were prescribed 

 vvith a view to detennine the village prices for the purpose of fixing the demand under 

 the olungu system under which the land revenue demand dependcLi on the price of grain 

 every year. After the abolition of the olungu system the returns were continued for 

 the purpose of calculating the value of melvaram share of the grain due to the Tanjore 

 Ranees in the villages belonging to them. As the Collector is now no longer Heceiver 

 of the Rajah's estate, the returns appear to have been since diBcontinued. 



