CHAPTER XL 



TENURES IN THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES. 



THE crush of indigo factories, both European and 

 Native, in Behar, has induced me to attempt, in 

 this chapter, a descriptive outline of the nature 

 of the various forms of tenures prevailing in the 

 North-West Provinces. In doing so, I would ask 

 the Assistant entering indigo to bear in mind that my 

 account will have special reference to the district of 

 Gorakpur,* which I emphatically believe to be the 

 direction in which the industry of the " blue dye," 

 forced out of Behar, will, in the near future, compul- 

 sorily seek its legitimate development. 

 I propose, therefore, to notice briefly 



1. The administration of the Rent Laws. 



2. Jurisdiction of Revenue Courts. 



3. Nature of tenures, and rights of tenants. 



4. Kinds of soil, and average rates of each. 



5. Settlement. 



6. Liabilities of tenants. 



7. Rights of Proprietors and Ticcadars in tenant 



leaseholdings. 



8. Sir land. 



9. Mokarr aries. 



* Gorackpore and Shahabad, in North-West Provinces in South 

 Behare are in commercial circles reckoned as Benares District (indigo). 



