Abstract
The present paper aims at the understanding of the agrarian society through agricultural proverbs as these proverbs had a keen common sense, which depicted varied rural experiences and wisdom and most literate societies have valued their proverbs and called them for posterity and after all these proverbs have historical, scientific and contemporary relevance too. The historical relevance of these proverbs may be seen in the sense that many British administrators wrote about the agricultural proverbs and fully utilized them in their writings for better understanding of the local level agrarian features; however, there are not so much references of agricultural proverbs in secondary literature as these proverbs may effectively be utilized in secondary. These proverbs had a scientific relevance too; by which the peasant can learn a lot by adopting scientific methods of agriculture; if they adopted this method they would definitely yielded more; however in contemporary times the aged peasants have some understanding of agricultural proverbs whereas the young generation have no specific knowledge of these proverbs and found the scene very depressive after assessing the contemporary status of agricultural proverbs by conducting field work.
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