32 The Manager. 



Alas, alas ! what can he do, the slouth-hound 

 behind, this dark ford before ! He slowly, reluctantly 

 passes the ford and is safe. He closes with the 

 Manager's terms. 



This is what is called in Behar the sudozvah 

 putowah mamlah, which, though we have placed 

 first, managers like worst ; where they see their 

 money gradually ebbing away, until the village is 

 handed back to the zemindar, who promptly asks for 

 more. 



But the methods of managers in treaty with the 

 zemindar are many and variform. There is the khusk 

 tikha (simple lease), by which the village is farmed for 

 a term, the Manager paying the zemindar the stipu- 

 lated rental in instalments ; the zarpeshgi lease, where 

 the money advanced constitutes the principal, and 

 the annual rent of the village, the interest. Under 

 this form of mamlah the village is never relinquished 

 until the principal is paid up in full, and it obtains 

 much favour with the Managers of Behar. There 

 is the mukarrari, which is a simple lease in perpe- 

 tuity. On lands leased in this latter way, vats and all 

 factory-buildings are erected. We need hardly say 

 that large villages or areas are seldom obtainable in 

 this way. There are many other changes rung on the 

 everlasting mamlah; but those mentioned are the chief 

 phases in which it confronts the Manager. 



