DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2374#0221
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 213
and partly from those who are necessitous being obliged to sell off CHAPTER
the whole of their grain immediately after harvest, in order to pay .P^'
the rent. Such a large quantity brought into the market at once Oct. 16,17.
unavoidably depresses the price. The plan which Purnea has
adopted in the vicinity of Seringapatam seems an excellent one; he
has there fixed the quantity of grain to be paid annually ; by which
means fraud is avoided, and the farmer is not forced to sell his
grain to a disadvantage. A farmer cannot be turned out of any
field that he has cultivated, so long as he pays the fixed rent, but
he may give it up whenever he pleases. Advances of money, for
one year without interest, have been made by the Company to such
of the poor farmers as chose to accept of this assistance, in order to
enable them to carry on cultivation. The government keeps up all
reservoirs or canals for watering the land ; which is done by paying
money wages to day-labourers, under the inspection of the district
native officers, or, if the work be great, under the inspection of an
officer (Daroga, or Mutasiddy) appointed for the purpose.
Every village had formerly an hereditary chief, or, as he is called Village offi^
in the Tamul language, a Munigar; and every large village, or
every two or three small ones, had an hereditary accomptant, called
here Canicapillay. An order was issued both by Hyder and Tippoo,
that all offenders and peculators should be dismissed from these
offices, and new men appointed in their stead; but these orders
were never enforced until it was done by Major Macleod. The
new men are considered as put in possession of an hereditary office,
and are liable to forfeiture on account of misdemeanour.
On the fifteenth of November, and the forty-five following days, Manner of
every farmer gives in to the Canicapillay, or village accomptant, a jettjngb the
list of the fields which he undertakes to cultivate for that year, Canicapillay>s%.
The accomptants then assemble, and deliver to the collector a list
of all the lands that have been taken; the rental of the lands so
taken is then made out from the fixed valuation, and the whole
farmers of each village are jointly bound for the payment of its
and partly from those who are necessitous being obliged to sell off CHAPTER
the whole of their grain immediately after harvest, in order to pay .P^'
the rent. Such a large quantity brought into the market at once Oct. 16,17.
unavoidably depresses the price. The plan which Purnea has
adopted in the vicinity of Seringapatam seems an excellent one; he
has there fixed the quantity of grain to be paid annually ; by which
means fraud is avoided, and the farmer is not forced to sell his
grain to a disadvantage. A farmer cannot be turned out of any
field that he has cultivated, so long as he pays the fixed rent, but
he may give it up whenever he pleases. Advances of money, for
one year without interest, have been made by the Company to such
of the poor farmers as chose to accept of this assistance, in order to
enable them to carry on cultivation. The government keeps up all
reservoirs or canals for watering the land ; which is done by paying
money wages to day-labourers, under the inspection of the district
native officers, or, if the work be great, under the inspection of an
officer (Daroga, or Mutasiddy) appointed for the purpose.
Every village had formerly an hereditary chief, or, as he is called Village offi^
in the Tamul language, a Munigar; and every large village, or
every two or three small ones, had an hereditary accomptant, called
here Canicapillay. An order was issued both by Hyder and Tippoo,
that all offenders and peculators should be dismissed from these
offices, and new men appointed in their stead; but these orders
were never enforced until it was done by Major Macleod. The
new men are considered as put in possession of an hereditary office,
and are liable to forfeiture on account of misdemeanour.
On the fifteenth of November, and the forty-five following days, Manner of
every farmer gives in to the Canicapillay, or village accomptant, a jettjngb the
list of the fields which he undertakes to cultivate for that year, Canicapillay>s%.
The accomptants then assemble, and deliver to the collector a list
of all the lands that have been taken; the rental of the lands so
taken is then made out from the fixed valuation, and the whole
farmers of each village are jointly bound for the payment of its