Page:Indian Journal of Economics Volume 2.djvu/571

 RUBAL LIFIi OF OHOI'Alq'AOPUR ding to the amount of more they upland is subdivided i: (1) bar/ (2) maruari and (8) taur oper. villager's house. This is perhaps meant to protect the people against gusts o! winds and the sssrity of winter. Sometimes there are holes in the walls to 1 'm lighh Dirtincas i the JanSmaid of poverty. &bse of. cleanliness is very conspicuous in many vit. This may be due to the difficulty of proerg waer. Land is divided into two broad classes (i) /)on or wet land (ii) taur or upland, fit for dry caltivaOn.  lands are sub-divided into three or four classes aee- retain. l'be The ground arccud the dwelling houses is known as bari land. It is fenced and contly manm. It proqluces maize and vegetables. The nm0 lands are contiguous to the cultivation of taut land is further only precarious crop are to bari land maua, lotni off from the row on the case of very poor people, there is the bai plot. The agricultural yield (1) Bhadoi () Kluif includes the khrif The most and mrson Rice is and are devoted or m/tr. The maruabai, amt this land. In no land outside is divided in and (3) two upland rice crops, includes better class of of the rv important (mustard). relatively three elasss Bari. The bm]oi millets and IMP,. rice. and lurguja. crops are rahar a luxury for the poor. Few villagers can afford to take rice regularly. M and gondli constitute the staple food of the poor classes. Makai (maize) saoarcand and mluaflowr e ibod of the villagers for two or three months i, the year. The villagers of Chotansgpur are more pmqicuim. about manure than their brhron in Bl. Ashes aml cowdung ae thrown on the bari laald aml some- times the silt of a tamk is usmd for mmauisw.