Famine Aspects of Bengal Districts (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Famine Aspects of Bengal Districts Harvests. - There are four chief harvests in the agricultural year. 1. The Aus rice, sown broadcast in April or May, reaped in August or September. 2. The Aman rice (the great harvest of the year), sown broadcast in lowlands in April, May, and June, planted out on highlands in June or July, reaped in November and December. 3. The Boro rice, sown broadcast in October, reaped in March. 4. The Rabi, or spring crops, consisting of peas, pulses, oilseeds, and miscellaneous green crops, sown in October, reaped in February. Weights. - The statutary seer is 2205 lbs., the bazar seer 2 lbs. But as a matter of fact the local seers still vary from 1¿ to 2¿ lbs., I have reduced them to one standard. To convert the weights in the following pages into avoirdupois, multiply the seers by 2 to find the pounds, and the maunds by 82 to find the pounds - i.e., 2 lbs.= 1 seer , 82 lbs. =1 maund. Land Measures. - The statutary higlia is 14, 400 square feet, and I have reduced the local bighas of the various Districts to this standard. The bigha is therefore ¿ of an acre. To find acres, multiply the bighas by 3, 640 acres make a square mile. Money. - A rupee for all practical purposes in small calculations may be taken as two shillings, and an anna as three-halfpence, or l-16th of a rupee. Prices. - The rate of rice is expressed either by so many rupees and annas the maund, or more commonly by so many seers per rupee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.