HOLDINGS g8 fi?t ?o the existence of. small holdings of a size which would not yield enough to support a family cultivating it with the aid of its labor and secondly to the extremely scalered comprised in ?he presen? increase in population and character holdings. also to of. ?he strips Owing to ?he ?he systems of. inherit?uce o! the Hindus and the Mahommedans pre- valent in this country? which in their attempt to carry distributive justice to its furthest limits adopt a partition and wide distribution of. system of equal property among a large tendency for number of holdings to constant heirs, there is a be sub-divided. as follows: (1) holdings below economic; (2) m&int?nance of a family ?ime of such sub-division of sub-dividing each plol of the in..?he holding. of agricultural holdings may be How limits how to to prevent which will be bring together sub-dividing carrying of land it, and at the it to the extent so that every one co-sharers may enjoy a bit of, land comprised various plots which constituted The problem, therefore, of the ?he original distribution stated to be briefly the sub-division of regarded as the scattered slrips. comprised in the holdings of a particular person. The smallness of agricultural'holdings and the tendency of these to be continually the and for fion of their livelihood upon the Government in It centtory sub-divided under system of inheritance prevalent in the country, the stress of increased numbers depending land, attractrod the atten- this country nearly half Besides this factor the prevalent practice observed at the time of. partition of dividing each field among the co-sharers has resulted in the fragmentation of holdings in an adn?ittedly undesirable manner. Numer- ous instances can be cited of families holding lands which tomy be said be be fairly sufficient for the
