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In Tinkathia System in Bihar, how much land was to be reserved for indigo cultivation?

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The Champaran tenant was bound by law to plant three out of every twenty parts of his land with indigo for his landlord.
This system was known as the tinkathia system, as three kathas out of twenty katha had to be planted with indigo. (1.0 Acre = 32.0 Katha = 1.6 Bigha in Patna).

By: Parvesh Mehta

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