266 . SEVENTH REPORT—1837. 
be referred to the fact of Ahmednuggur having once been the 
capital of the Ahmed Shahee dynasty of Moosulman kings ; 
with these exceptions, although I have not detailed returns to 
guide me, I believe that the constituents of the population of 
the Ahmednuggur Collectorate do not differ in their propor- 
tions from those of the Poona Collectorate. In the census of 
1822, the families in the fifteen pergunnahs in the Ahmednuggur 
Collectorate, with a population of 409,279 souls, were enu- 
merated, and it appeared that there were 4°53 persons to a 
family. With respect to the styles of building in the Ahmed- 
nuggur Collectorate, it will be fully illustrated by the facts, 
that the ¢i/ed houses amount only to 10°84 per cent. of the 
whole; the thatched houses to 32°27 per cent.; and the mud 
flat-terraced houses to 56°89 per cent. 
Bearing in mind the clouds of horse that covered the Duk- 
hun in the war of 1817, it is sufficiently remarkable that in 
1822, in the whole Collectorate of Ahmednuggur there were 
only 405 full-grown horses, 1298 full-grown mares; the total, 
including colts and fillies, being only 2500; the ponies amounted 
to 12,632, of all kinds. 
Proportions engaged in agriculture.—In 1828, in this col- 
lectorate, 1878 British villages contained 41,948 cultivators or 
farmers, and a population of 512,818 souls, and allowing five 
persons to a cultivator’s family, 40°89 per cent. of the people 
were engaged in agriculture. In Poona there were 52,668 
farmers, being a per centage of 55°50, with five persons to a 
family. In Dharwar 60,701 cultivators, being a percentage of 
41‘76*, and in Khandesh 44°608 cultivators, being a per 
centage of 53°16 occupied in agriculture. It is to be under- 
stood these proportions have reference to the population of 
British villages only, and not to the whole population of each 
collectorate. Moreover, as these proportions are derived from 
the registered farmers only, and as they are in the habit of sub- 
letting their lands, I have no hesitation in expressing my 
opinion that exact returns would prove that three-fourths of 
the population are directly engaged in agriculture. In the 
Poona Collectorate, families were not enumerated, excepting 
in the return from the city of Poona, and here families average 
4°82 persons; each house in Poona averaged 6} persons; but, 
for the whole collectorate 4°79 persons to a house; so that it 
is probable the returns of the number of houses would give 
the number of families. In Khandesh the proportion of in- 
* Including some returns of alienated villages, an estimate makes it 48 
per cent. 
