AGRARIAN RELATIONS IN MALABAR 43 51 M TC Report 1927-28, Vol 1, Annexure. 58 Census of India 1921, op cit., Table 17; Census of India 1931, Madras, Vol 14, Table 10. 58 Government of Madras, Revenue Department, G 0 No 2941, dated 12 August 1918. 5< Government of Madras, Revenue Department : Statistics—Agriculture—Complete returns for respective years, T A. 85 Mac Ewen, op cit., p 25. 38 Ibid.y Appendix iii 87 Government of Madras, Development Department, G 0 No 1324, dated 26 August 1927, TA. 88 Ibid. ^ Ibid. 80 Census of India 1931, Vol 4, Report, Part 1, p 202. 62 Charles Innes and F B Ewans, Malabar (Gazetteer, Vol 1, Madras 1951, p 215. 81' Mac Ewen, op cit., p 8. 34 Statistical Atlas of Malabar 1931 for description of the agricultural practices and dependency on rainfall, chapter 10. * 65 Malabar Gazetteer, op cit., p 209. 68 Government of Madras, Revenue Department, G 0 No 636, dated 20 March 1936 (T A) for data given in this paragraph. 67 S Y Krishnaswamy, Rural Problems in Madras: a monograph, Madras 1947, Appendix No 14. 68 Report of the special officer for the investigation of Land tenures. May 1947, Madras 1950,p 28. 69 Government of Madras, Development Department, G 0 No 915, dated 23 June 1927, (TA) Statement 11. 70 Ibid., Statement, 111. 71 Ibid., No 1645 Miscellaneous series dated 28 September 1930 (T A). 72 Sufficient attention has not been paid to aspects of the social structure, as it is beyond the scope of this article, but its relevance to our discussion should not be under-estimated. Some of these aspects will be dealt with in the later part of our study.