HARVEST AND BAZAAR PRICES 



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' The following table is extracted from the statement 

 given by Mr. P. J. White in his Report on Parganna 

 Kunch : 



Thus the members, be they baniyas or zemindars, 

 can compel the producer, who lives solely by the 

 advances they grant him, to bring his produce to their 

 shops and prevent him from getting the full market 

 value for his goods. The cultivator is, therefore, not 

 only crippled by the heavy interest he has to pay, but 

 also by the low prices he is compelled to take for his 

 produce. The harvest rates which I am about to give 

 are those given in Mr. Allen's Jalesar Settlement 

 Report as the prices obtaining "for delivery" from 

 1 8 1 3-34 for wheat and barley, and those obtainingamong 

 the Bajna baniyas since the year 1835. 



'These Bajna rates are very fairly representative of 

 those obtained by the cultivators generally. 



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'The market prices from 1813-35 for wheat, barley, 

 and gram are those given by Mr. Allen 

 Jalesar Settlement Report as ruling in the 

 market; those from 1843 have been extracted from 

 the Muttra grain-sellers, and give the prices on which 

 the yearly balance of sales is made up, and therefore 

 represent very fairly the average prices for the year. 



in his 

 Muttra 



