Indian Chronology (Solar, Lunar and Planetary): A Practical Guide to the Interpretation and Verification of Tithis, Nakshatras, Horoscopes and other Indian Time-records, B.C. 1 to A.D. 2000 c20.26

c20.26

(14) The Madras Fasli year is an *agricultural, solar, tropical* year, beginning on 1 July and having no divisions of its own into months and days. Its formula is "current Fasli = A.D. year minus 590". The agricultural or revenue year from 1 July 1910 to 30 June 1911 might be expressed quite as well by the expression "Revenue Year 1910-11" as by the expression "Fasli 1320". The former expression would convey better sense to most people, and the expression "Fasli year", the use of which a blind tradition has consecrated in Madras, serves no other purpose than to confuse any one who is not a village karnam. It is a chronological anomaly and will no doubt gradually drop out of use.