the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

prehending land of various qualities - rarely über 10 acres in Total u. oft vielweniger, ... Zahlung d. Rente dch each ryot to Zemindar nach shifting scale,depending upon more or less of the elements mentioned. (53)Abbreviated example of the year's account zwischen ryot u. i^emindarDescription of land Quantity Rate Amountof RentBig. Cot Rs As P R s A PSali, rice land, first quality 2 1 0 0 4 0 0 10 0 0Dtto - second qual. 1 1 0 3 0 0 3 2 2Dtto - third qual. 0 7 J 0 2 4 0 0 1 3 10Bamboo 0 6 0 1 5 0 0 4 8 0Waste 0 2 1 5 1 0 0 0 2 4Homestead 0 1 0 20 0 0 1 0 0Compound 0 1 0 1 5 0 0 0 1 2 0Excavation o 5J o 1 0 0 0 4 8Total 4 14 15 20 n o (285)In extenso füllt diese Geschichte (285, 286) 40 u. oft mehr ParalleleColumns, mit column for arrears etc. (286) Matter of fact that the Bengalryot little disposed to move u. for generation after generation, from fatherto son, the same plots of land, or approximatively so, remain in the hands ofthe same family. (53)The Zemindari is an aggregate of many entire mau^ahs. (54)D. jährliche Rente meist gezahlt in 3 or 4 kists (instalments) d. collection13 5 j dieser Rents nur | ausführbar dch an organised staff\ commonly called, bothindividually and collectively, the zemindar’s, oramla; bestehtgewöhnlich aus: einem Tehsildar {collector of the rents; if the Zamindari large,one Tehsildar collects für je 3 or 4 mauzahs.)In jedem village od. Mau%ah a Tehsildar’s kachari [(auch called “ Cutchary”)nämlich a court or office ,where public business, or the business of a zemindar’sestate (wie hier), is done]; dort the zamindari books and papersrelative to the village collection made up and kept. Bookkeeping vonHindus carried to an almost absurd extent of detail; would be tedious todescribe all the books kept in due course of the kachahri business; the principalof them are: 3 or 4 books genannt Chittha (Memorandum - name of a businessbook used in the management of a Zamindar’s property, in whichmeasurements and other like information are entered); dies ist in fact anumbered register in various ways and in minute detail of all the smalldags or plots into which the village lands are divided, the measurement of each,its situation, the quality of the land, the ryot who cultivates it, etc, the last of*54