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If the estate is a partible one, the younger brothers get equal shares with the eldest from the estate, and they may lead a life similar to that of the eldest brother; but they must not imitate another Zamindar who is better off than themselves. I know well a Zamindar, owner of one of the portions of a divided estate, who spent about three lakhs of rupees on his installation ceremony. I don't think his grandfather or his eldest uncle who were the owners of the estate in its undivided state would have spent more than ten or, at the most, twenty thousand rupees on such ceremonies. But this Zamindar spent about three lakhs of rupees on the same sort of ceremony without thinking of his position and of the extent of his portion. Such an one, I mean the owner of a partible estate, has no right whatever to such a ceremony, because after a few generations his estate will have been split up into such small portions that