Report of the territories of the rajah of Nagpore; submitted to the supreme government of India

by Richard Jenkins

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. 1827 edition. ...annually from the Gaon Khurch allowance, and a few pice, and two or three Pylees of grain, from each Kirsan. Bhoomak. The Garpugaree is also a sort of magician, and his peculiar business Garpugaree. is to avert hail storms, and calamities of all kinds from the village. His perquisites are eight annas or a rupee, annually, from the Gaon Khurch allowance, and a couple of Pylees of grain from each Kirsan. The remaining five officers have no allowance of any kind from the Government, and are exclusively paid by the community.' The carpenter is obliged to repair the agricultural implements of the Kirsans, for which he has an allowance of four or five Cooroos annually from each plough. For new implements he is paid separately. The blacksmith is on the same footing. The Chumar, who mends the leathern apparatus of wells, &c., has also a trifling grain allowance. The washerman and barber have likewise petty dues. 2 u All Carpenter, &c. Havildar and Pandbree Panta. All these village officers collect their own dues, after the harvest is gathered. The carpenter, blacksmith, and Cotwar, receive their dues regularly. The others, commonly, receive only a portion of theirs, and in bad years very little. These dues are always paid in the cheapest grains, as lac, &c. and they are distributed after the heaps of grain are collected on the field, and previous to its removal to the houses of the Kirsans. The dues of the village officers vary in different the exact quantity of grain they are entitled to receive, depending on local usage. In large villages there is, generally, an officer called the Havildar, who acts under the Putel in matters of police, and has an allowance from the Government, and in Kusbahs, a Pandhree Pandia, to keep...

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