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 KEATINGE The Marwari money-lender leases oufi to others, owns ,5I acres which he Of the remaining la.d 7 holdings aggregating 411 .acres are between 50 and 70 acres each. The remaining holdings, aggregating acres apiece. the above cotton, and the The land of ing bajri aud uegligble. 533 'acres, average out at villages is light soil, grow- arnoant, og irrigation is Case No. 17 The last case t'eers to a typical cotton village iu the East Deccan, where the soil is deep, the t'aiufall somewhat precarious aud the pressure o population ou the soil com- paratively small. Murgundi, talttka Athui, district Belgaum O ,cettpied area Number of holdings Average area of holding ... 2,827 acres ... 158 ... 1,5 acres Number of separate plots 327, i.e., slightly over 2 per holding. I will be seen that here neither isub.division nor frag- mentation is acnte. Fragmentation occurs, however: e. g :- Holding A, $1 acres in 7 plots Holding B, 12 aci'es in 6 plots Holding C, $0 acres in 8 plots Per co.tra lnany of the other holdlugs are nnfrngmented. There are 113 working bullocks, i.e., one pair for 40 acres APPENDIX II THE EXTENT OF FRAGMENTATION AND SUB-DIVISION OF HOLDINGS IN OTHER COUNTRIES, THE CAUSES OF THE SAME AND THE REMEDIAL MEASURES TAKEN Englad In England, as is well known, the law of entail, the custom og primogeniture, and the difficulties involved in the conveyancing of land, have resulted in more than the land in the hands of a very estimated not very long ago that Britain not 250,000 the concentration of few persons. It was there are in Great owners of land, and 1 Free Lal by Arthur Arnold (1880)