Meaning of cawnie | Babel Free

Definitions

A measure of land equal to 57,600 square feet or 1.3225 acres, formerly used in India.

historical

Examples

“This fort of mud was formerly built by the Curumbas, covering forty cawnies of ground with two boundary walls, and was long ruled by them.”

“If we take the best cotton land, paying a land tax of Rupees 3-5-5 per cawnie, the proportion would be upwards of 33 per cent.”

“We shall now consider the cost of cultivating one cawnie of dry Poonjay land with Indigo by the native cultivator who does not irrigate.”

“On the Nilgiris, the cawnie was initially utilised exclusively in measuring settler occupation.”

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