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weed; hier the people bathe, cleanse their body cloths, get their drinking water,catch fish in them, (i 3) In Bengal jeder pool of water swarms with fish,small or great; the very ditches, gutters and hollows dried up for months,on the first heavy downfall filling them, turn out to be complete preservesof fish. (I.e.) Manchmal has a fortunate or wealthy ryot a tank attached tohis homestead all his own, to which his neighbours have no right toresort. (I.e.) Maidän (green bewachsen)D. land tilled by the cultivators of the village, i.e. the bulk of the inhabitants, isa portion of the lower lying plain outside and around the village. D. family of thehomestead - consisting of a father and sons, or of brothers or of cousins -cultivates von 2 to 10 acres in the whole, made up of several plots, often lyingat some distance from each other. D. men gehn zu ihrem work at daybreak,plough on shoulder, driving their cattle before them along the nearestvillage path which leads to the open; manchmal they return at noon fora meal and a bath in the tank u. gehn dann wieder aus for their work;öfter aber bleiben sie bis afternoon having some food brought themabout midday by the women and children. (14) One man and his young son(still in his boyhood) with a plough and a pair of oxen will cultivate 3 acres(u. so - in proportion), perhaps more, with the aid received in reapingetc. No purely agricultural class wie in England. Small cultivators u. d.überflüssigen Hände einer Familie arbeiten spare times for hire on theirneighbours' land; in some villages, wo d. occupation of a caste, z.B. the weavers’caste, naturally died out, the members forced to earn their livelihood bymanual labour, arbeiten u. a. auch auf Land for wages. Für d. Herbst ist oftbesondres arrangement made. The paddy grown on land in one situationreicht oft später od. früher als paddy grown under slightly different circumstances.[1Crops are known by designations drawn from the months or seasonsin which they are reaped or gathered, as Bhaduwi, Kharif, Rabi; u. dieserespectively depend upon the season of sowing] u. so small gangs of cultivators— from one village or district go to help the cultivators of a distant village tocut their paddy, this assistance being returned if needed. The remunerationreceived for this work is usually one bundle5 out of every five, or out of every seventhat are cut. The foreigners build a mat hut for themselves in the harvestfield u. nach geleistetem Dienst carry home their bags of grain. (15, 16) |130 Grosse uniformity of life etc. in all the component classes of a village.(16) D. House d. wealthier or more influential man ist manchmal pakkaor brickbuilt, (selber Plan wie bei bamboo homestead) - generally out ofrepair and partially broken down. Er hat zahlreichere Kleider u. betterblankets; seine cooking ustensils u. d. sehr wenigen other domestic articlessind vielleicht of Brass statt Erdenwaare, seine hukhas (hukha od. hookhaa form of pipe for smoking tobacco) of metal or even silver mountedstatt eine Coconusschale, seine Weiber tragen reicheres, u. zahlreicheresSchmuck. Er hat vielleicht a wooden gaddi {takhtaposh) (gaddi = a seat;takhtaposh = a low platform or sitting place) in his receiving room, on247