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 their extent, assessment, wet or dry, and the persons each field or At the time occupied. of such make it correspond ryot himself). published by the elaborate and an account to the It will Local sustained sub-division of of re-settlement actual clear be Government enquiry than becomes necessary in enjoyment from the that field is revision order to by the papers & lnor possible under the circumstances and within the limited time permitted for them be reply to the reference made by the Board of Bevenue, was imperatively called for. The problem of distribution of holdings is really one of remedying the conditions which neeessit-ste the ryot st present effective agriculture the distribution of remaining in s position is impossible. I recognize agricultural holdings st where that present fragmen- and the danger of further tation due to various-causes like the pressure o! population, the system of inheritance, the lsV of partition and the defective social economy, under which it is possi'ble for considerable amount of idle labor to make itself.  burden upon labor which is actually and usefully employed, demand the poverty of suo-atvtmon aud serious attention before the problem of the ryots can be solved. . . . It would be fallacious, however, to assort that the problem of Indian poverty can be successfully tackled with by devoting our attention to the distribution o! agricultural holdings alone. Other tors also, upon the successful combination of. which the productivity of griculture depends, must be taken into account st the same time. Indian publicists are apt to believe that the poverty of the method of distribution. this school of thought ryot arises out of a faulty Those who are opposed to contend that ff an Indian is .poor the reasons are a failure on his part to produce