KEATINGE The Marwari money-lender leases oufi to others, owns ,?5?I acres which he Of the remaining la.d 7 holdings aggregating 411 .acres are between 50 and 70 acres each. The remaining holdings, aggregating acres apiece. the above cotton, and the The land of ing bajri aud ueglig?ble. 533 'acres, average out at villages is light soil, grow- arnoant, og irrigation is Case No. 17 The last case t'e?ers to a typical cotton village iu the East Deccan, where the soil is deep, the t'aiufall somewhat precarious aud the pressure o? population ou the soil com- paratively small. Murgundi, talttka Athui, district Belgaum O ,cettpied area Number of holdings Average area of holding ... 2,827 acres ... 158 ... 1,5 acres Number of separate plots 327, i.e., slightly over 2 per holding. I? will be seen that here neither isub.division nor frag- mentation is acnte. Fragmentation occurs, however: e. g :- Holding A, $1 acres in 7 plots Holding B, 12 aci'es in 6 plots Holding C, $0 acres in 8 plots Per co.tra lnany of the other holdlugs are nnfrngmented. There are 113 working bullocks, i.e., one pair for 40 acres APPENDIX II THE EXTENT OF FRAGMENTATION AND SUB-DIVISION OF HOLDINGS IN OTHER COUNTRIES, THE CAUSES OF THE SAME AND THE REMEDIAL MEASURES TAKEN Engla?d In England, as is well known, the law of entail, the custom og primogeniture, and the difficulties involved in the conveyancing of land, have resulted in more than the land in the hands of a very estimated? not very long ago that Britain not 250,000 the concentration of few persons. It was there are in Great owners of land, and 1 Free La?l by Arthur Arnold (1880)
