Corgee

A corgee is an obsolete unit of mass equal to 212 moodahs, or rush mat bundles of rice. The unit was used in the Canara (now Kanara) region of Karnataka in India.

See also

• List of customary units of measurement in South Asia
• List of obsolete units of measurement

References

• Simmons, Peter Lund (1898). The dictionary of trade products, manufacturing and technical terms, moneys, weights, and measures of all countries (revised and enlarged ed.). George Routledge and Sons. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoftrad00simm/page/107/mode/1up?q=corgee+moodah. "Corgee, a term in Canara, India, for 212 moodahs, or rush mat bundles of rice, the mode in which that grain is usually sold there. [...] Moodah, a bundle or bale of rice in the East, packed in straw or rush-matting, tied with coir." 

Further reading

• Official and Descriptive Catalogue of the Madras Exhibition of 1855. 1855. https://books.google.com/books?id=G5ZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR16. Retrieved February 15, 2015.