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smaller quantity of land ; or (2) hy giving a certain amount of land at These didari tenures pleasure, without any reference to specific share. When a whole were generally conferred under writing, seldom verbally. village is held under this tenure, the sub-proprietor invariably also enjoys all village

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and dues, and with these the proprietor has no is also the case where the sub-proprietor holds

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an entire and separate fractional portion of a village included in a single but where there are two fractional portions of any village included in an estate, one of which is held as didari, and the other is not, it will generally be found that in that case the sub-tenure carries with it no village privileges or dues whatever. In the course of the judicial proceedings, where this tenure was found to extend to the entire village or entire fractional portion, the sub-settlement was, of course, decreed; where smaller holdings were being contested, the decree has been based on extracts of the field It may be mentioned that, at the registers filed with the proceedings. outset, diddri grants were always rent-free, and the majority of these are still so. In some cases, however, a low quit-rent was subsequently assessed, This item is known by the name of " barbasti. " always found to be still considerably below the GovIn this class of sub-tenures, which were given in lieu ernment demand. of other superior rights, long since absorbed, whether they be held rent-free or at low rates, the superior holder has of course to make good the Government demand from his other property. Where the rent-free tenure extends to certain fields only, the other village lands can be held responsible for the revenue that should properly fall on the rent-free portion, whether the muhal in which the mauza is situated be at some future period broken up or not. But where the rent-free tenure extends to a whole viland it was lage, or fractional portion of a village> this will not be the case therefore ruled by the Financial Commissioner, under date 2.5th April 1865, No. 89.5, on special reference from this office, that a condition should be entered in the administration paper, that if the " sadr mSlguzar " should hereafter fail in his revenue engagements, these must be accepted on the usual terms by a didari holder, and this principle is now being carried out.

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(sub-proprietary) is of two different kinds First, when old proprietors parted with their estates without a reser'" vation as to land being assigned for their support, it was not unusual for the new proprietor to leave them in possession of the land tilled with their own ploughs for a time they might escape rent, but subsequently a low rate was put upon their lands, and these may still be recognised by the two facts (1) that possession of the particular fields has seldom, if ever, changed, or if there has been such change, that the original area is maintained and (2) by the rates being still below the rents of other persons of the same class. When the lands have been changed, either as to locality or area, and when there is no special favour in the rates of rent as compared with others of the same caste, the sub-proprietary status has merged into that of cultivator. Second, it was common to assign to the junior branches of a family certain lands for their support, instead of giving them the ancestral shares to which they were entitled. Such 8.

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