Harte }LIM, of Coorg, a clod-crusher.
Hemanta„ of Bengal, the cold months ; a rico crop ripening in December.
Jaihan, of Oudli, numery rice.
Jaitian, of Bengal, a kind of rice.
Jal, of Bengal, water. Jali-dhan, a rice crop sown in marshy land about April, and reaped about July.
Jawaru, of Central Daub, as much land as can b.° ploughed by a pair (jora) of bullocks at Dehli in half a day.
Jeelun, of Bombay, the Pe-cottah of the Tamil country. Jethi-dhan, in Oudh, a rice sown in April along the banks of rivers, or where water is still lying, and cut in Jeth. Jethi armful (Panicum frumentA• ccum).
Jot, hi Bengal and N.W. Provinces, the land held by a cultivator. Jothlar, the actual cultivator.
Kabar, a black soil of the N.W. Provinces of inferior quality to mar.
Kachlii, of Oudh, garden lands.
Kacho of Sind, alluvial land thrown up by the river Kali, of the Mahratta, is arable land in geneml, but named from its black colour. It is ft black soil or mould, and land of a superior finality ; the under lying ground in the Dang receiving and retaining moisture during the cold season, and especially fit for wheat and other spring crops.
Kali bitui, of Bombay, repo- or black cotton soil ; it is the soil of the great volcanic district of the Dekhan north to Malwa, Ahmadabad, Broach Collectomte, Kairs, Kattyawar, Rad Surat. It is very retentive of motsture. Thecropssown onitare jowar(Sorghum vulgare), kapgs or cotton, grdiun or wheat, dan.
gar or dry rice, cluma, the Cicer arietinum, Bengal ' grAni, castor-oil plant, rape seed (Rata tallar tall), mung (Phase°lus mungo), and tour.
Kali chunkari, black cotton soil overlying lime, which renders it very unproductive.
Ka1r, of N.W. Provinces, barren land unculturable from reh efflorescence, salt, or other reason.
Kalr is a salt efflorescence which is observed in many places. Sometimes it extends over large tracts of land, rendering them almost entirely unproductive ; they are called kalri zamin, Kalrati, saline land.
Kanwai HIND., clayey soil, in Puranya, in muddy holl'ows, which in the dry season is formed into detached nodules by the action of underground springs.
Kapale, of Mysore, apparatus for raising water for irrigating fields from a well or tank, worked by oxen on an inclined plane. • Kar or Kant, in the south of the Peninsula, the chief rice crop, watered in October, November, and .December by the rains of the NAV'. monsoon. ln the northern districts it is the crop sown in April, and reaped in Jime or July.
Karns, of Berar, la-nd at foot aud top of hills.
Kaslitgar, of Sind ; Kaslitkar, of Bengal, a cultivator. Kashthar mirasi, a hereditary tenant.
Knslithar paid, a non-resident tenant.
Kashtkar dehi, of Bengal, a resident cultivator.
Katta. In the Northern Circars, katta regur is rt stiff loam, and katta sauda a black soil, from Katta, a clod of earth.
Kowaldas, MAHE., 19 IL black soil.
Khadar or Khadir, HIND., low or alluvial lands easy of irrigation, and especially fit for rice cultivation ; also rice beds or patches of ground surrounded by low banks, so as to confine the water and moisten the ground for rice cultivation. In some places, moist, alluvial ground, on which barley and wheat are grown.
Khajan, a salt marsh or meadow land ; land near the sea-shore or inlets, and liable to be flooded.
Khaki is a soil or land that cannot be irrigated, and depends wholly on rain.
Klialati, AIAHR., low rice grounds about a village. Low country on the upper part of the Malabar coast, descending from the Sallyndri mountains to the Sea.
Khar, Kshar, or Kari], alkali, alkaline earth, soda, im pure carbonate of potash or soda.
Kliarif, the autumnal harvest, the crops of which were sown before or at the beginning of the rains, in June or July, and reaped at their close, in October, November, and December.
Kharpi, of Bombay, a trowel, a spade, a small hoe.
Kharril, resembling the mar of Bundelkhand, is a black earth common in the lowlands and in the plateau south of the Ganges. It produces a good spring crop without irrigation, but its character is much improved if sand is spread over the surface • other wise it is liable to dry up into deeply-'fissured masses of hardened clay.