298 SEVENTH REPORT—1837. 
were on the collector’s list; they contained 494,669 souls, esti- 
mated from the average number of inhabitants to a village, 
namely, 263°47, struck from the census of 1822, to which the 
present population of the city of Nuggur is to be added, 
namely, 21,208, The revenue from the collectorate was 
2,033,994 rupees, 3 qr. 78 reas ; equal, therefore, to 3 rupees, 
3 qr. 77 reas per head. 
In Dharwar the averages have the following elements :—in 
1827—28, 2279 British towns and villages produced a revenue 
of 2,421,516 rupees, 1 qr. 39 reas. This included the villages, 
revenue, and population of the Talooks of Cheekoree and Mu- 
nowlee, received from the Kolapoor state; population returns 
were not received from these Talooks; their revenue from 225 
villages, namely, 197,406 rupees, 3 qr. 29 reas, is therefore 
deducted from the total revenue of the collectorate, leaving 
2,224,199 rupees, 2 qr. 10 reas, and 2054 villages. From the 
latter are to be deducted 175 depopulated villages, but having 
a small part of their land cultivated by neighbouring villagers, 
leaving 1879* British villages, with a population, agreeably to 
the census, of 653,892 souls, giving 3 rupees, 1 qr. 60 reas 
per head. 
There is some difficulty in ascertaining how the revenue of 
Khandesh would fall as a capitation tax, in consequence of the 
increased number of villages (3353) rendered productive since 
1825—26, (the date of the population returns,) their population 
not being known. In 1825—26 the inhabited villages amounted 
to 2032, and 330 were Pyegusta, i. e. deserted, but having 
part of their land cultivated by neighbouring villagers. Sup- 
posing the new villages to be peopled in the same ratio as the 
old ones, the number of inhabitants in the government villages 
in 1827-28 would have been 443,548, which is 24,031 souls more 
than I have put into the population returns; and as the revenue 
was 1,987,733 rupees, the people averaged an individual pay- 
ment of 4 rupees, 1 qr. 92 reas: nevertheless, I have reason to 
doubt the actual increase in population to the extent I have 
given Khandesh credit for; and should it have remained sta- 
tionary, the revenue as a poll-tax would amount to 5 rupees, 
1 qr. 40 reas per head. 
With respect to the branch of revenue called Sahyer, it will 
be seen that the different collectorates raise it in very unequal 
proportions. The unusual lowness of it in the Ahmednuggur 
collectorate is of difficult explanation. The following table 
shows the number of persons of each class paying this tax, the 
amount paid, and the average per head. 
* Subsequently increased to 1899, with a population of 660,852. _ 
