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 HOLDINGS g8 fit o the existence of. small holdings of a size which would not yield enough to support a family cultivating it with the aid of its labor and secondly to the extremely scalered comprised in he presen increase in population and character holdings. also to of. he strips Owing to he he systems of. inherituce o! the Hindus and the Mahommedans pre- valent in this country which in their attempt to carry distributive justice to its furthest limits adopt a partition and wide distribution of. system of equal property among a large tendency for number of holdings to constant heirs, there is a be sub-divided. as follows: (1) holdings below economic; (2) m&intnance of a family ime of such sub-division of sub-dividing each plol of the in..he holding. of agricultural holdings may be How limits how to to prevent which will be bring together sub-dividing carrying of land it, and at the it to the extent so that every one co-sharers may enjoy a bit of, land comprised various plots which constituted The problem, therefore, of the he original distribution stated to be briefly the sub-division of regarded as the scattered slrips. comprised in the holdings of a particular person. The smallness of agricultural'holdings and the tendency of these to be continually the and for fion of their livelihood upon the Government in It centtory sub-divided under system of inheritance prevalent in the country, the stress of increased numbers depending land, attractrod the atten- this country nearly half Besides this factor the prevalent practice observed at the time of. partition of dividing each field among the co-sharers has resulted in the fragmentation of holdings in an adnittedly undesirable manner. Numer- ous instances can be cited of families holding lands which tomy be said be be fairly sufficient for the