186 G. I?. KEATINGE population on the cultivable land is usually great, and sub-division and fragmentation are marked, as shown in cases Nos. 11 to 14. In-the East Deccan the pressure is usually much less as is shown in cases Nos. 15 to 71. To sum up the evils of excessive sub-division and fragmentation, they may be stated as follows: (a) They impede current cultivation and waste (b) They prevent permanent improvements. (c) They prevent a ?nau frown living on his farm. (d) They prevent any orderly or capital.. organisation of labor (e) They frequently being grown. - (f) They sometime? result in second crops not send land out of cultivation altogether. (g) They cause enmity amongst 'neighbhors leading to litigation-and permanent feuds. (h) They produce a generally uneconomic situation.' I quite realise that when population presses heavily. on the cultivable land, holdings must be small, and that in some cases there is a good cause for a strictly limited amount of fragmentation, as in the Konkan between the rice and th? warkas lands, in parts o! Gujarat between rice, garden and dry lands, and in parts of the Deccan between the dry and patasthal lands. Bht I would submit that throt?ghout the Konkan and over a l?rge par? of the Deccan and Gujarat sub-division and fragmentation have gone much farther than is reasonable, and are exercising a very prejudicial influence on the cultivation and country. It is tn?.e that in parts development of of the Deccan Gajarat this tendency is the and not yet far developed, but it
