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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.