302 SEVENTH REPORT—1837. 
cent., and remissions were granted in that year to the amount 
of 20°40 per cent.; the total deduction from the revenue was 
63°43 per cent. In Khandesh, without any remissions, the 
charges were nearly six-tenths of the whole revenue. In 
Poona I have only shown the charges which are strictly and 
permanently fixed upon the land in all the collectorates, which 
are not mutable, and therefore scarcely susceptible in justice 
of modification ; these amount to 14°46 per cent: they com- 
prise village expenses, militia, Mokassa, and Hukdars. In 
Dharwar, the collector’s establishment has been added to the 
above, and it brings the charges strictly bearing on the land to 
24°12 per cent. on the revenue. 
A review of the above tables and abstracts suggests the fol- 
lowing observations. The collectorate of Dharwar, having the 
smallest area? (with the exception of Poona) of the collect- 
orates of Dukhun, has the greatest population, and produces 
the greatest revenue, which bears lightest by average upon the 
inhabitants individually.» Judging from the lowness of the 
customs, it has the weakest indications of commercial industry ; 
nevertheless, the manufacturers, particularly the weavers, ex- 
ceed those of the other collectorates in the ratio of 100 to 11, 
or 89 per cent. The shopkeepers and tradespeople are very 
numerous, and their individual taxes® rise to the average of 
those of Poona and Khandesh. Finally, the means of the 
people (remissions not being called for) must be more efficient 
than in the other collectorates, and a proportional ratio of 
imports and exports might have been looked for. 
Khandesh has the largest superficial extent,’ a population © 
29 per cent. less than that of Poona, or granting an increase 
to its population 15°32 per cent. less, with a revenue never- 
theless equal to that of Poona, bearing in consequence with 
unusual pressure upon the people, its average being 5 rupees, 
1 qr. 40 reas to each soul; involving the fact that the assess- 
ments in this collectorate are greater than in any of the others. 
Admitting, however, the estimated increase to the population 
previously noticed, (which certainly exceeds the truth,) the 
average individual payment will still exceed that in the other 
collectorates. It is possible this apparent pressure may be 
* 9122 square miles, including the cultivated area of the Talooks Cheekoree 
and Manowlee. 
b 838,757, including the estimated population of the Talooks of Cheekoree 
and Manowlee, 3 rupees, 1 qr. 6 reas per head. 
¢ 10 rupees, 2 qr. 2 reas. d 12,527 square miles. 
© 371,404, but supposed this year to be 443,548 in government villages, 
f 4 rupees, 1 qr., 92 reas. 
