208 SUBDIVISION OF HOLDINGS 



CASE No. VIII. 



(Village Mangob, taluka Chorasi, district Surat. Area — 453 acres. 



Assessment — Rs.3949.) 



74 landholders of whom 14 are non-cultivators and 60 

 cultivators. 



Largest non-cultivator's holding, 19 acres in one plot with 

 a well. 



Largest cultivator's holding, 14 acres of dry-crop land in 

 one plot. 



The soil in this village is lighter than in case No. VII and 

 there are 125 acres of garden land growing vegetables, ginger, 

 chillies, etc. The rest is dry-crop land, growing cotton and 

 jowari. It will be seen that in this village the subdivision 

 and fragmentation of the land is greater than in case No. 

 VII. This is connected with the existence of garden land, 

 and it is in such land that it is most pronounced, e.g., 



Acres. Gunthas. 

 Survey No. 69 — Area 7 4 divided into 4 plots. 



Survey No. 24— ,,9 5 divided into 7 plots. 



The people say that as the garden land is subdivided the 

 rights in the old wells are also subdivided, and the holders 

 of rights in a single well repair the well jointly. This works 

 fairly well up to a certain point, but they say that the sub- 

 division of the garden land certainly checks the making of 

 new wells, and very few are now being made, though there 

 is plenty of suitable land where they might be made with 

 advantage if the land was not so subdivided. 



CASE No. IX. 



In the garden villages of the Bulsar and Jalalpur talukas 

 of the Surat district, where the pressure of the population 

 on the land is greater, the subdivision and fragmentation 

 are much more marked. The following statement gives 

 details for some villages where it is very acute : — 



