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  GRIO UL T URL HOLDINGS 585 enquiry into the economic history of several typical tracts, and experiments made to carry out the work of consolidation in places where such could be done with the willing consent of the people, may help us in finding out what exactly legislation for securing the lines of beyond which imposble. a great deal the limit rendered division of I think a holding there may much difficulty at all in arriving at this must necessarily vary different times according standard of life of the people must be minimum must be not be others. not an insuperable difficulty at all. The real difficulty, however, lies in the systems of inheritance with which we must necessarily come into conflict and the defec- tive' social economy under which it is in different places and in to the variation in the concerned. That is changed and whatever measure may be adopted cannot bear fruit without an "active idle a great deal of / produce earned by of these must be campaign of enlightenment" in the attitude of the people A the same time it may be and a necessary change towards these matters. necessary for us to con- possiMe for labor to depend upon the Ideas with regard to both sider the need for policy creased the ryots uncertain rains, the creation in ryotwari facilities a revision of tracts. The for irrigation more self-reliant and of less banking the land revenue provision of in- thereby' making dependent upon facilities to suit the small farmer, the development of industries subsidiary to agriculture which would employ the man in the village in his own place without necessi- tating his going out of it to any considerable disnce 'during times when strictly agricultural work m.ay not be available to him, and the laying out of roads ! In he srip of alluvial soil lying beweea he Pennar and Oadilam rivers in South Afoot District this limit may be fixed st one store wet and two mores dry or the equivalent. . a figure, though