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DADANI

As per Sikkim Rural Indebtedness Act, 1966 the word “dadani” means
pledging to a creditor by a cultivator or land-owners of the produce of any
land, in consideration of cash or kind, with the price or quality of such
produce prefixed.

[NOTIFICATION REGARDING THE PROHIBITION OF DADANI SYSTEM DATED 1910.]

SIKKIM STATE

GENERAL DEPARTMENT

Notification No. 901/G.

Corrigendum to the Sikkim Debt Law, 1910.

For Rule VII substitute the following:-

No trader shall be allowed to give “Dadani” for cardamom or any other
agricultural or farm produce (such as milk, butter, eggs and vegetables) of a
bustiwalla. Advance purchase of articles at this market rate current at the value of
actual supply shall not be prohibited.

The word “trader” shall include any person who buys or barters commodities
with a view to sell the same.

The transaction of “Dadani” shall be declared an offence by the
Darbar for which both parties to the contract of Dadani shall be punishable.

By order of His Highness the Maharaja of Sikkim.

C. E. Dudley,
General Secretary to

His Highness the Maharaja of Sikkim.

Memo No. 1000/G.

Copy forwarded to the Elakhadars and Managers of elakhas of Sikkim for
information and guidance and with the remarks that they will make the purport of
the above known to all concerned in their elakhas and will report of their having
done so, not later than the 1st November, 1933.

C. E. Dudley,

Gangtok, General Secretary to

The 15th May, 1933 His Highness the Maharaja of Sikkim

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