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The total cultivated kyari land in the village including
both old and new1 kyari is about 775 acres. The total
cultivated jarayat land is 2368 acres. Calculating their
value at the rates adopted, we get the figure Rs. 2,73,830.
To this must be added the value of government waste
and the forest land of the villages which only serve as
grazing grounds at present. Though these two come under
the category of jarayat land it will obviously be wrong to
value them at Rs. 60 per acre since this land is practi-
cally unarable. A gentleman of this village recently
offered Rs. 10 per acre for a piece of government waste.
Assuming, therefore, Rs. 10 to be the price for both, the
total land (284 acres) included under these two—govern-
ment waste and forest area—will be worth Rs. 2840.
The gaothan land is never sold. The land occupied by
the river-beds, roads, nallas, tanks and cemetery have no
sale value. Kharaba or waste land has similarly no
value. Regarding the village site, it is almost impos-
sible to arrive at any correct figure of value for it, since
sales are not frequent. In a recent sale, however, the
price given was Rs. 2000 per acre. This was due to the
play of jealousy among different members of a caste.
This is obviously an extraordinary price and cannot be
taken as a guide. Assuming, after taking other things
into account, Rs. 500 as the price per acre, we get Rs.95O
as the total value of the village site. Thus the total
capital value of the village land comes to Rs. 2,77,620.
(2) VALUE OF HOUSES
More difficult than the valuation of land is the valuation
of houses. We have already seen how they vary in this
village in size, shape and the raw material with which
they are made. There are mainly two types of houses,
thatched and tiled. The number of the former is greater
than that of the latter. There are 327 of the first type and
only 76 of the second. Moreover sales of houses are
1 Separate figures for new kyari are not available.