Thanks for your help! I spent a little time looking for resources and came
up with nothing; I saw a bunch of pictures or articles about trains, so I
thought it had something to do with that (Wow I was way off!!).
Cheers,
Justin
On Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:01:39 PM UTC-4, Justin Meyers
Thanks.
My interpretation too was of the mark. I have come across people from
Vidarbha (formerly in Madhya Bharat), who were called malgujaars, in the
same vein as a zamindaar would be referred to. But I have never come across
someone referred to as a mahalwar.
So my interpretation was that
My understanding is that Mal means Malguzari and Ryt means
Ryotwari. Different land revenue systems were in vogue during the British
period, and these are two of them.
Sharad
On Thursday, September 18, 2014 10:31:39 PM UTC+5:30, Justin Meyers wrote:
In the census data for Madhya Pradesh,
Ryotwari is right, Sharadjee, to my knowledge. In some places Mal could
mean Mahalwari too. Don't know if Malgujari means the same as Mahalwari
--Milind Khadilkar
On Friday, September 19, 2014 10:13:51 AM UTC+5:30, Sharad Lele wrote:
My understanding is that Mal means Malguzari and Ryt means
I have not quite figured out what Mahalwari means, but wikipedia says
Mahalwari was in Uttar Pradesh, and it sounds more like zamindari.
I am very sure that the system in Madhya Pradesh was Malguzari, see this
Supreme Court Case:
http://indiankanoon.org/doc/217259/
Sharad
On 19-Sep-14
