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also divided according to crops, e.g., suna or Bhadoi land and 

 shali or low land suitable for aman paddy ( called also aghani 

 land ) and rabi land. Vegetables, arahar, and sugarcane are 

 classed with rabi crops, indigo with Bhadoi crops and sweet 

 potatoes with aghani crops. Pan garden is curiously enough 

 classified with uncropped area in settlement operations 

 in Bengal ( vide p. 28 of Hand-book of Instructions for 

 Cadastral survey parties for Bengal, by Lieutenant-Colonel 

 W. Barren, 1886 ) and thatching grass also. The cultur- 

 able area is subdivided into (i) New or less than 3 

 years' fallow; (2) Old Fallow; (3) Groves; (4) Grass j 

 (5) Bush ; (6) other kinds (including pan gardens, forest, 

 bamboo clumps, threshing floors, waste adjoining village 

 sites, temporary sheds, pathways and excavations). The 

 non-culturable area is subdivided into (i) Village site; 

 (2) Sites of temples aud burial grounds ; (3) Unculturable 

 waste as " usar" ; (4) Tanks ; (5) Rivers ; (6) Unculturable Jhils 

 and Churs; (7) Government roads ; (8) other roads ; (9) other 

 kinds of unculturable lands (e.g. encamping grounds, embank- 

 ments, mounds, railroads, barracks, bungalows, brick and 

 lime kilns, permanent cattle-sheds, serais &c.). Land is also 

 classified as dwdl, doem, soem and chdhdram, or ist, 2nd, 3rd 

 and 4th class ; also as (i) Bastu, (2) Udbastu, (3) Garden, (4) 

 Bamboo and orchard, (5) mathan, (6) bilan, and (7) dearh. 

 Each of these is subdivided into dival, doem, soem and 

 chdhdram. Lands are also classified according to pro- 

 prietary rights: e.g. (i) Permanently Settled lands; (2) 

 Waste-lands for which revenue has never been settled ; (3) 

 Temporarily settled estates or tenures the property of 

 Government or of private individuals ( of Government again 

 on expiration of the term of the current settlement ) ; (4) 

 Estates or tenures purchased on account of Government or 

 escheated or forfeited to Government ; (5) Resumed revenue 

 free lands ; (6) Islands thrown up in navigable rivers ; (7) 

 Alluvial accretions ; (8) Lands acquired but no longer required 



