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THE EARLIEST AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION IN INDIA AND ITS METHODS PP. OF-SSO? PRAPHULLA CHANDRA BASU, M,?,, B,L. HOLKAR COLI?GE? INDORE? C. I, I propose to deal with the agricultural organisation of the Aryans in India so far as that can be gathered from the earliest extant literature, the Rig Veda, But before going into the actual agricultural system it is necessary to understand clearly the nature of the rights that subsisted in the land on which the .village or the g?ara? built its habitat. P?ivate Pro?er?y ? This naturally leads us t.o a preliminary study of the growth of ownership ?n land as it developed during the period of the Rig Veda. The idea of private property in land, the ownership vesting in the individual, is the last thing that a people develop, because it is directly the outcome of a series of abstract ideas. First there must be the idea of po- ssession. It must be based on the conception of some abstract right emanating from prescription, which would I This portion is taken from the author's book, ImJo-?r?aJ? Po? &? ? ? o! ?b _? ?,