CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER X. 



GENERAL VIEW OF THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY, AND OF THE 

 IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRED IN INDIAN COTTON. 



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Hand-Book to the Cotton Cultivation of each Presidency ordered by 



the Government of India .... .... 3 



Method pursued in drawing up the present[Hand-Book to the Madras 



Presidency .... .... , . . , 4 



Three objects sought by the East India Company with reference to 



Cotton .... .... .... .... .... 5 



Boundaries of the Madras Presidency .... .... ib. 



Physical features of the country ...... .... 6 



Three modifications of the tropical heat: viz., the table land, the sea 



and the two monsoons .... .... .... 7 



North-East monsoon, October to April : South- West monsoon, May 



to September .... .... .... .... ib. 



Climate of the Madras Presidency and Cotton States of North America 



compared : reversal of Seasons .... 8 



Revenue Divisions of the Madras Presidency. ... .... .... ib' 



Revenue systems of the Madras Presidency : based upon the Village 



Communities .... .... 9 



Three Revenue systems : 1st, Village joint rent system . . .... 11 



2nd, The Zemindary system , . .... 5. 



3rd, The Ryotwary system .... 12 



Advantages of the Ryotwary tenure over the Zemindary tenure and 



the Village joint rent system .... ib. 



Revenue division of lands ; Government, Zemindary, and Inam 13 



Nature and extent of the Cotton soil of India 9 ib. 



Four great Cotton Districts : Bellary and Cuddapah to the North 



Coimbatore and Tinnevelly to the South 14 



Statistics of the Cotton growing Districts .... 15 



Review of the three improvements required in the Indian Cotton .... ib. 



