Final Report On The First Regular Settlement Of The Simla District In The Punjab Primary Source Edition PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...twenty years. The population was counted as 8,583 souls; and the Khalsa cultivation I take the/in at 4 bighas as 4,000 or say 2,360 acres; less than 10 of the measure used in 1866; acres being returned as irrigated. The jama eeparagraph 43 below assessed was lis. 6,556; or ahout Rs. 2-12-0 per acre. This the Deputy Commissioner speaks of in his report above quoted (paragraph 99) as an extremely light assessment, and probably it was a light assessment as compared with what the neighbours were paying to Ranas in the adjacent States. It is also probable that the area of the cultivation was understated. The area and assessments of lauds held revenue-free is not inclnded in the above figures, 34. As in the rest of the Simla district, up to 1851-52 each holding had its separate lease. In that year Jtfr f jint rea" joint responsibility was nominally enforced; ponsibility for the revenue, . /., ..., . in 1852. that is to say, the tract was divided into per gunnahs, a lambardar or mukhia was appointed to each pergunnah, and he signed an engagement for its revenue as the representative of the whole body of the owners. This change from separate to joint responsibility was purely nominal; but the Deputy Commissioner took the opportunity to raise the revenue to Rs. 6,724, the increase being charged on account of land newly cultivated since the date of Settlement. 85. The Settlement of A.D. 1833, as thus amended, was not Settlement of A.D. 1859. revised A,185?' The Settlement of 1859 was made by Colonel R. Lawrence, Superintendent of Hill States; and no English reports are forthcoming. The work was commenced in 1856, a measurement being made, and a rough record without any map being drawn up. On the basis of this...