Naga Samudram was a small agraharam village at about 30 km from Kavali.Singampallis had one third share in that agraharam.SRM used to take an oxen cart to go to the village annually, to collect CIST. People assemble near the rachabanda to talk to the zamindar.They say the thumu to the cheruvu is not working properly; kaluvas have to deepened to get water to the fields and so on.
When asked about cist to be paid , they start saying there was no crop lat year. We could get only half the yield. I married my daughter etc and used to pay only half the cist or less. SRM was hard only in words as we all know.
The net result was if the collection was Rs 50 the expenditure was same or more.
Finally when agraharams were taken over by Government SRM was one of few zamindars, who were happy!!!
P.S. When Viswams marriage was fixed, Venkarao garus (co son in law) shaddakudu (Ramathapur, Hyd) learned that we are agrharikis. Seems they were other partner in Nagasamudram Aggraharam.They were saying oh! Padama is being married into a zamindari family. How lucky she is!!!!!
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What is CIST?
He was a man with so many dimensions!
tax to be paid to the governement or zamindar
Always proud of his lineage but not about himself.
His favorite utterances were
1. " what do you think of Singampallis/my father/my grandfather/ my aunt? A big and respected family/person here!"
2. "what am I? A small town lawyer! Sathakoti lingallo oka bodilinganni!"
His love for his elders was always great and he, to my knowledge, never criticised his ancestors. This in spite of the fact that the previous generation lost a lot of money, which those days was an unimaginable amount.
More later.
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