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IV.—A Description of the Agricultural and Revenue Economy of the Village of Pudu-vayal, in that part of the Peninsula of India called the Carnatic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2009

John Hodgson Esq.
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In submitting these notices to the attention of the Society, the object is to bring under its view the internal revenue economy of a Hindu village that has never been under the direct control of any European officer of the East-India Company, in order to exhibit a fair specimen of ancient usages in the south of India, and to shew with accuracy, the proportion of the produce of the soil customarily taken in kind, in latter times, as land revenue, the rights of the parties paying revenue, and those of the individual who, by grant from the sovereign, is entitled to collect that revenue.

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Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 1830 , pp. 74 - 85
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1830

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page 75 note * In this manner the grant of a Jagír, in 1765, to the Company by the Nabob of the Carnatic, was a grant of villages, specified in a list or schedule attached to the grant.

page 75 note † cáni is 57,600 square feet.

page 80 note * This account includes the produce and value of about an acre of sugar-cane.

page 81 note * I was shewn in this village a deed of gift of a female, of the agricultural class of slaves, and of her family, dated 131 years ago, written on a palm-leaf of three leaves, curiously and naturally joined, as indicating the sale of three persons, being for a woman and two children; also two other deeds relating to slaves; of these I was promised copies, but did not receive them. An essay on agricultural slavery in the East-Indies will, I trust, be read to the Society at no distant period by one of its members; and authentic information on this subject may be looked for from India.

page 81 note † All the grain is trodden out of the straw by driving cattle over it. tied together by the neck.