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BANKURA. Bishnupur.

(2)

83

Chatna, a village ard head-quarters of a police circle in

the south-west of the District, situated within the tract, recently trans-

Manbhum.

ferred from

(3) Gangajalghati, a considerable village

head-quarters of a police

Damodar

Rajgram, a large trading Agriculture.

of Bengal,

is

ground

(the

transplanted

dus

in

seeds (mustard, cotton, flax,

March

rice

Among til,

is

station, (5)

Bankura town.

previously

crops

and sdrgujd),

is

four

sown

in April or

times

ploughed),

December; the May, and reaped in

reaped about

sown broadcast

the other

crop

winter

or

been

July or August, and

autumn

or

September.

having

and police outpost

crop in Bdnkura, as throughout the rest

The dman

rice.

and

north-west of the

in the north-east of the District.

village near

—The principal

the

in

(4) Barjora, a large trading village

District.

a few miles south of the

May

situated

circle,

in

raised

7iiatar

the District are

in

(peas),

hemp, indigo, sugar-cane, and pdn.

oil-

and chhold (gram),

Cotton

is

gathered in

or April, and indigo generally in July.

two seasons other about

for

sowing indigo, one

The

October.

There are, however, February or March, and the

in

cultivation

of indigo

owing partly to the uncertainty of the spring partly to

the fact that the soil

Irrigation

is

by means of

necessary for wells

are not available



all

is

rainfall

is

not increasing,

of late years, and

not very well suited to this crop.

kinds of crops in Bankura, and

is

effected

and tanks where natural watercourses and streams the cost of irrigation varies considerably throughout

an acre, and for Manure, consisting of rich black mud scraped from the bottom of tanks or reservoirs and mixed with ashes and stubble, is used for rich fields, and for more the cost varies from 4s. 6d. to valuable crops cow-dung is added On all lands growing sugar-cane and other exhausting 9s. an acre. staples, rotation is observed, the cane being generally followed by til, after which a crop is taken of dus or autumn rice, succeeded by mustard Although spare land fit for tillage is scarce (often mixed with peas). the

District,

being for

rice

land from

sugar-cane land from i8s. to

i6s.

9s.

to

15s.

an acre.



in

the

District,

tenures

are not unfavourable to the cultivator.

in other parts of Bengal, the land

is

let

and

As

sub-let to a great extent,

many middlemen coming between the proprietor and the cultivator. The tenures are generally of the ordinary descriptions, the only one of special interest being 43 ghdtwdli estates held subject to payment of This quit-rent was originally payable

a light quit-rent to Government.

to the Raja of Bishnupur, on account of service lands held by the ghdnvdls or officers appointed for the defence of certain passes against the inroads of the Marathas and others, who made frequent plundering The ghdtwdli estates were annexed to expeditions into the country.

the regular rent-paying lands at the time of the Decennial Settlement

and on the application of the Bishnupur Raja, who found

that he

had