Excerpt from Field Notebook No.1  (link) – 2^nd May 1999 – pg. 134

“Land is owned communally by married brothers. As one is in Punjab and the other in Orissa, then Khudi Ram is actually sharing it only with his middle brother Budhram. Ater the next Land Settlement, they said their land will still be held jointly.

He planted only baba, because he said he had no time to plough for the second harvesting – I guess in January as he was already threshing rice (baba enkena). However, because of the lack of rain, harvesting was magre and he could not make any bandi. He needs to buy rice, whether in the village or in …. He will also exchange tarob for rice (but not salt).  

Transformation of buru into gora: you need money to pay labourers and cattle. They are doing it but one step at a time.”

Excerpt from Field Notebook No.1  (link) pp 142  3/5/99

“On three gora lands (out of four), they did not plant anything, not even baba.  They thought they had planted enough. Yet, because of lack of rain, they got less than necessary, and were in need of buying it and to work in other people’s fields. 

For what concerns land ownership, they seem to have individual ownership between brothers, as at the death of the head’s father, each brother got a share of land. This share seems to be liable of redistribution somehow.”