A History of Assam c21.18

c21.18

For the first few years annual settlements of the land revenue were effected, but subsequently the plan was tried and, as it was found advisable, for many reasons, gradually to reduce the number of *mauzādārs*, by increasing the areas assigned to each, the *mauza* came to include more and more villages, so that at the present day it often contains twenty or thirty, or even more.