Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t3.121
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.t3.121
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c5.t3.121
The general system of tenure under which land was held in those days seems to have been much similar to the present-day permanent *raiyatwārī* system. The ryot or the *kuṭumbika* possessed, according to immemorial custom, a right of possession and hereditary occupation in the land so long as he paid the rent that was due. This is, of course, peasant-proprietorship.²