ON THE STATISTICS OF DUKHUN. 217 
Special Report on the Statistics of the Four Collectorates of 
Dukhun, under the British Government. 
[In spelling Oriental words, the @ is the a in all, the u as in hut; the rest 
have the usual English sound. ] 
Tur General Committee of the British Association which met 
at Cambridge in 1833, did me the honour to pass a resolution 
that I should prepare for publication my manuscripts respect- 
ing the Statistics of Dukhun (Deccan). I have been anxious 
to respond to so flattering a desire at an earlier period, but 
having placed my manuscripts in the hands of a distinguished 
person, as auxiliary to his scientific labours, I have been de- 
terred from reclaiming them until the objects for which they 
had been placed at his disposal were realised. 
In responding at last to the call of the British Association, 
I feel very considerable embarrassment in adapting my ma- 
terials to the space which can be afforded to me in its annual 
volume. The materials, in fact, are very voluminous; and 
the nature of my subject embracing multitudinous details, 
figured statements, and lengthened tables, makes it a work 
of no ordinary difficulty to digest, abridge, and condense them 
without involving my subject in obscurity, and exposing my- 
self to the imputation of inefficient inquiry from the hiatus 
which must appear. I beg, therefore, distinctly to state, that 
| the absence of information observable in the following Report, 
| is attributable, not to paucity of matter, but to the want of a 
| sufficient field in which to display it. 
Extent and Physical Circumstances. 
I propose to give but a meagre sketch of the statistics of 
Dukhun; a mere enumeration of its population, products, 
| manufactures, revenues, civil divisions, &c., with little more 
| comment than may be necessary to ensure perspicuity. 
| Inthe execution of my public duties as Statistical Reporter 
to the government of Bombay, my researches made me ac- 
| quainted with the statistics of the four collectorates of Duk- 
| hun, denominated the Poona, Ahmednuggur, Candeish or 
| Khandesh, and Dharwar Collectorates; facts were also col- 
| lected respecting the territories of the Rajah of Sattarah, and 
| some few details came to hand illustrative of the state of the 
possessions of the southern Mahratta Jagheerdars, which are 
