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SUBDIVISION OF HOLDINGS 



fair holdings. In point of fact it is divided up into 139 

 separate plots held by about 50 land-holders. A map of the 

 land and a tabular statement showing areas, number of plots, 

 number of mulgeni (permanent) leases, number of simple 

 leases and number of mortgages are attached. 



The number of Kabjedars (land-holders) entered against 

 each survey number represents the number of separate plots 

 into which the land is divided. The same men, however, 

 own land in several survey numbers, so that the actual 

 number of owners is less, being about 50. In another way, 

 however, the fragmentation is even greater than the figures 

 indicate, e.g. in Survey No. 1 the number of shares shown 

 is 3 ; but in reality the field is divided into 18 plots, each 

 sharer cultivating 6 plots annually, and moving on to another 

 6 plots the year after, and so on. 



The following details regarding two of the survey numbers 

 give a good idea of the fragmentation : — 



Survey No. 7, garden land growing cocoanuts : — 



1 guntha = tVth acre. 



