VOL. L

LAND-SYSTEMS

OF

BRITISH INDIA

THE

LAND-SYSTEMS

OF

BRITISH INDIA

BEING

A MANUAL OF THE LAND-TEnures anD OF THE
SYSTEMS OF LAND-REVENUE ADMINISTRATION
PREVALENT IN THE severAL PROVINCES

BY

B. H. BADEN-POWELL, C.I.E.

F.R.S.E., M.R.A.S.

LATE OF THE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE, AND ONE of the Judges of tHE
CHIEF COURT OF THE PANJÁB

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SIR DIETRICH BRANDIS, K.C.I.E., PH.D., F.R.S.

(LATE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF FORESTS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA)

I DEDICATE THESE VOLUMES

AS A TRIBUTE OF PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP

AND OF ADMIRATION FOR AN OFFICIAL CAREER

WHICH, MARKED THROUGHOUT BY DEVOTION TO THE PUBLIC GOOD

HAS BORNE FRUIT IN LASTING BENEFITS

TO THE INDIAN EMPIRE