TRADITIONAL CRAFTS AND OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE 63 business but could not take much profit. In 1883, he bought a saw mill from a Mr Martin—proprietor of Balipara-Namgaon Tea Estate, at Rs. 12,000 which was shifted to Tezpur dockyard in 1886 and was finally dosed and sold to one Saruram Majumdar in 1893 with the machinary at a mere Rs. 2,500. Haribilas Agarwala Dangariar Atmajivani, 1942, pp. 29 and 45. I am indebted to Professor Amalendu Guha for lending me this rare work. 59. During the early phases wages offered to a tea garden labourer ranged from Rs. 2.50 to Rs. 4.00 per month which later on increased to Rs. 5.00. P. Griffiths, The History of Indian Tea Industry, London, 1967, p. 304. 60. W.W. Hunter, op.cit., vol. I, pp. 134,195, 257,37; vol. II, p. 63. There were about six categories of landless labourers in Goalpara: (1) 'Chakar'— persons regularly engaged as servants, (2) 'Bandhas'—persons paid in advance, with food and clothes, (3) 'Adhiyar'—share-croppers, (4) Trajas*—cultivating in other's lands with own implements, (5) 'Chukanf—pay rent and also serve the owners on certain days, (6) 'Chakaran'—instead of rent cultivate additional lands belonging to temples. 61. It is evident from the Table that in the beginning of the twentieth century the overall proportion of the agricultural labourers was about 14 per cent in Assam. If, however, the plantation workers are 'deleted* from the list the proportion of agricultural labourers would stand at mere 2 per cent. S.J. Patel, ibid., pp. 26-27. 62. Enauiry Committee Report, 1888, op.cit., p.4. 63. P. Griffiths, op.cit., p. 304. 64. Keya Deb, Tea Plantation in the Brahmaputra Valley (1839-1914): A Case Study in Colonial Set Up, 1979 (unpublished), p. 153. 65. H.A. Antrobus, A History of the Assam Company 1839-1955, Edinburgh, 1957, p. 389. 66. Enauiry Committee Report, 1888, op.cit., p. 25. 67. The Assam Land Revenue Manual, Government of Assam, Revenue Department, vol. 1,1970, p. iv. 68. Enquiry Committee Report, 1888, op.cit., p. 25. 69. Ibid., p. 16. 70. Ibid., p. 20. 71. M. Neog, Sankardeva and His Times, Gauhati, 1965. 72. Ibid., pp. 76-77. 73. M. Dewan, op.cit., p. 621; and H. Barbarua, pp. 458-9. 74. H. Barbarua/ Ibid., p. 462. 75. F. Hamilton, Ronggopur Records, IOR, Book III, p. 102. 76. F. Hamilton, 1840, op.cit., p. 55. 77. E.A. Gait, Tottery in Assam', 1895, op.cit., p. 112. 78. Census of India, 1881, pp. 93-94. 79. CJ., 1881, p. 123. 80. Ibid., p. 122. 81. Gait, op.cit., p. 112. 82. ECR, 1888, p. 40. 83. Ibid., p. 3. 84. Ibid.