Community grazing ground is reserved and preserved in many parts of India. Is this situation common in KA, AP and TN?
In N India, corrupt local sarpanches lease them out (at low rates at that) to favorites for farming.
Tamil nADu
N TN was/is supposedly much better than tanjAvUr area - less periyarist influence, more telugu H influence.
Farm-workers supposedly routinely cheated owners in giving produce share.
mAniyams
In Uvallur, 1/4 of arable land was revenue free; and half the share thence went to various local service communities/ institutions. From JK Bajaj and MD Shrinivas research on Ullavur.
Elsewhere, it was 70%. (See devadAsi lands article)