Kadatas: BLACK BOOKS
Kadatas: BLACK BOOKS
Kadata is a long sheet of cloth seasoned with coal or characoal paste made out of powder of tamarind or antwal seeds, nicely rubbed with stone, dried up,folded in the form of a book which opens like a roll. Soapstone pencil was uused to write on these sheets
The Kadata is also known by other names like pata, patika and karpasika-pata.
Thomas Munro Collector of Canara district in 1800, states that shanbhogas of the canara district used black books for several centuries to register pattas relating to land and land revenue accounts.It appears Munro himseif used such kadatas
Important Source of Documentation that Throw Light on Life During Medieval and Early Modern Times
manuscript
954 / HIST
Kadata is a long sheet of cloth seasoned with coal or characoal paste made out of powder of tamarind or antwal seeds, nicely rubbed with stone, dried up,folded in the form of a book which opens like a roll. Soapstone pencil was uused to write on these sheets
The Kadata is also known by other names like pata, patika and karpasika-pata.
Thomas Munro Collector of Canara district in 1800, states that shanbhogas of the canara district used black books for several centuries to register pattas relating to land and land revenue accounts.It appears Munro himseif used such kadatas
Important Source of Documentation that Throw Light on Life During Medieval and Early Modern Times
manuscript
954 / HIST
