REVENUE SURVEYS. 



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into the Benares system, and the entire preparation of the rough 

 record, including the Hindi portion, and all such assessment statistics 

 as could be compiled with sufficient accuracy previous to attestation, 

 were made over to the Survey Department. The settlement decided 

 to retain, however, a staff of settlement munsarims* to check the soil 

 demarcations and the records of certain villages as they were being 

 written, and to submit special reports on the accuracy of the 

 Ichanapuri.-f 



The cadastral survey of the Basti district was completed in 1888, 

 having been begun in 1883-84. The total number of villages was 

 7,615, the area in square miles was 2,815, and the number of fields 

 5,260,420. Regarding the value of the village papers prepared by 

 the survey party during previous seasons, the Settlement Officer of 

 Basti, in illustration of the satisfactory manner in which the rights 

 of the occupancy tenants were safeguarded on this occasion against 

 the designs of the zamindars, prepared a table for five parganas, 

 viz.. Amonha, Nagar West, Nagar East, Basti West, and Basti East. 

 The tabular statement of the total areas for these five parganas 

 recorded in the papers of different " Fasli " years were as follows : — 



Areas held by Occupancy Tenants. 



According to Annual Statements prepared in the Office of District 

 Sadar Kanungo. 



According to Survey- 

 Records after Attestation 

 by Settlement. 



F. Year 1289. ! F. Year 1290. 

 53,766. 67,180. 



F. Year 1291. 

 44,650. 



F. Year 1292. 

 100,199. 



From the above it will be seen that the total area was far less in 

 the year 1291 (the year before survey) than in previous years, which 

 shows that the zamindars had got the patwaris to enter a number of 

 occupancy tenants as " non-occupancy " tenants, in the hope that they 

 would be similarly recorded by the survey. The figures for 1292 

 show how eminently successful the new and accurate system of 

 survey was in defeating this fraudulent attempt. 



* Inspectors. 



| Filling up the columns of the hhusra. 



