BANKURA. Bishnupur.
(2)
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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
