54 SOCIAL SCIENTIST TABLE VISUBDIVISION OF PADDY LANDSCase Total acreage Number of sub- Acreage for each sub-as on 9.1.66 divisions as on division as on 5.10.1966 5.10.1966A 6.98 4 1.73,1.77,1.32,1.27 B 5.26 2 3.21,2.05. NOTES: I The addresses of the 4 ^new* holders in case A are the same; and so they presumably belong to the same household. 2 In case B also both the addresses are the same. Small holders evade the RPO through the conversion of paddy land, maybe because of i) the expenses of subdivision, ii) ignorance of law 'properly', iii) lesser area of total land and iv) other uses of garden land. The large holders evade through subdivision maybe due to the i) increase in the total ^standard9' acres of land while calculating for the purpose of ceiling law, ii) accessibility to legal procedures, iii) the economy in the expenses of transaction compared to surplus land, and iv) the diseconomy of conversion into garden land. The reason of small farmers evading the RPO may be due to a situation in which the amount of levy E DETAILS REGARDING TABLE VI] CULTIVATORS Li ^VIABLE FOR THE 1975-76 MUNDAKAN CR .OP Area under Area leviable Total land (including Cases paddy cultivation in acres garden land) in acres* in acres A 2.38 0.38 4.32 B 2.10 0.10 4.60 16.96 C 2.83 0.83 6.62 D 3.18 1.18 18.09 Total 10.49 2.49 41.67 NOTES I Among these property-owners in the village there are past and present officials of government departments, like police and revenue. 2 The details relate to property in this village alone; about property in other villages details are not known. 3 A and B are husband and wife. Their son (a doctor) holds 4.04 acres. Their dairy farm covers another 3 acres. Total 16.96 acres. * Taken from the counterfoils of the receipts for land tax for 1974-75. exceeds their marketable surplus.. The high marginal rate of levy may be the reason for the large holders trying to evade the RPO or at least to bring the area under smaller holdings. It is significant to note that in this village the only holding with more than 3 acres has only 3.18 acres of land