[1]. This was drawn up in 1820-21.
[2]. Throughout the Bundi territory, where no regent has innovated on the established laws of inheritance, by far the greater part of the land is the absolute property of the cultivating ryot, who can sell or mortgage it. There is a curious tradition that this right was obtained by one of the ancient princes making a general sale of the crown land, reserving only the tax. In Bundi, if a ryot becomes unable, from pecuniary wants or otherwise, to cultivate his lands, he lets them; and custom has established four annas per bīgha of irrigated land, and two annas for gorma, that dependent on the heavens, or a share of the produce in a similar proportion, as his right. If in exile, from whatever cause, he can assign this share to trustees; and, the more strongly to mark his inalienable right in such a case, the trustees reserve on his account two sers on every maund of produce, which is emphatically termed 'hakk bapota ka bhum,' the ‘dues of the patrimonial soil.’
[3]. [Now the commercial capital of Jhālawār State, on the Kotah border.]
[4]. A maund is seventy-five pounds.
[5].
| Grain Measure of Rajputana. | —75 | pounds | = 1 ser [? 1·7 lbs. The |
| standard ser is a little over 2 lbs.] | |||
| 43 | sers | = 1 maund. | |
| 12 | maunds | = 1 mauni. | |
| 100 | maunis | = 1 manasa. | |
[6]. It does descend as low as eight rupees per mauni for wheat and barley, and four for the millets, in seasons of excessive abundance.
[7]. It is not uncommon in Rajwara, when the means of individuals prevent them from cultivating their own lands, to hire out the whole with men and implements; for the use of which one-eighth of the produce is the established consideration. We have applied this in the rough estimate of the expenses of the regent’s farming system.
[8]. [To illustrate the rise in prices, the average value of a plough bullock is now Rs. 40, or about £2:13s.]
[9]. [Jagātya, a Marāthi word derived from jakāt, Arabic zakāt, the religious alms which a Musalmān is bound to pay.]