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84 Fakir Mohan Senapati, opcit., pp 582-586.
CB Bengal Development Department, Progs, April 1867, no 199.
Bft Binay Bhusan Chaudhuri "Rural Credit Relations in Bengal, 1859-1833", IESHR, vol VI, no 3.
c7 Ibid.
59 Maddox had shown that within an area of 5897 sq. miles comprising 1 3,589 villages 3901 sq. miles (or 66%) arc cultivated, 544 (or 9%) are cultivable but not cultivated while 11-50 (2)%) are uncultivable. Out of the uncultivated area 177 sq. miles or 3% of the total area had been formally reserved as grazing and cremation grounds as detailed in Appendix L and encroachment on thc&c reserves had been strictly forbidden. It is sufficient to note that 31^39 ojt of a net cropped area of 3903 sq. miles bear a rice crop, 1/8 square miles are homestead land and 307 sq. miles arc twice cropped.
69 Report ofW ^ rower, 23 May 18P; S C DC, op, cit., pp 19-36.
eo M D Morris, "Economic Change and Agriculture in 19th century India51, IESHR June 1966; B B Chaudhuri, "The Process of Dcpeasantization in Bengal and Bihar, 1885-1947," Indian Historical Review (IlIR), vol II, no 1.