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each, which is higher than in any other collectorate ; and as the 
villages in this part of the collectorate average a fraction more 
than 226 inhabitants,? the taxes, assessments, and customs, 
after deducting the share for Poona, 151,241 rupees, fall upon 
the people with the unexampled pressure of nearly 53 rupees 
per head,¢ while the people in the city’ average only L rupee, 
3 qr. 44 reas per head, including a proportional share of the 
customs, and the city, Sahyer, and land-tax, &c. 
For the whole collectorate of Poona, including the four talooks 
of Sholapoor, by a process previously explained, the assessments 
average 4 rupees, 1 qr. 78 reas per head, which closely approxi- 
mates to that of Khandesh. 
Poona has the greatest number of taxable persons® after 
Dharwar in the Sahyer branch of the revenue, and ranks 
second in the total amount of the sum raised, which falls with 
a less pressure individually than in Dharwar and Khandesh, but 
sreater than in Ahmednuggur. The manufacturers, as contri- 
butors to the Sahyer, are very limited in number. 
The proportion that the customs bear to the whole revenue 
is a very striking feature: they are derived principally from 
imports, a good part of which passes on to the eastward; much 
is consumed in the city of Poona, and the rest is dispersed into 
the districts. I have observed that imports from the coast 
have gradually cheapened in their retail price within the last 
three or four years, owing, no doubt, to the combined causes of 
increased importation and scarcity of money in Dukhun. 
The collectorate of Dharwar, whether viewed with respect 
to the quantity of land under cultivation; the size of its farms;' 
the amounts of its revenue; the lightness with which it falls 
upon the people, considered asa poll-tax;% the magnitude of its 
Sahyer; the comparative denseness of its population; its nu- 
merous towns? and tolerably well-peopled villages ; the facility 
offered for instruction in the number of its schools, and the mani- 
festations of manufacturing industry in its numerous weavers,' 
is unquestionably the finest British province in Dukhun. 
Dharwar Land Revenue.—The land revenue, in its pro- 
portion to the whole revenue, stands third in the Dukhun col- 
lectorates, being 80°336 per cent. ; but this apparently inferior 
station is to be attributed, not to the diminished quantity of 
4 §94 villages with inhabitants, 202,252. b 1,110,470 rupees. 
© 5 rupees, 1 qr. 96 reas. 
4 Inhabitants of Poona 81,315. Taxes and proportionate share of customs 
&e. 151,241 rupees. 
e 23,042, f 32-74 acres, or 43:65 beegahs. 8 3 rupees, 1 qr. 60 reas. 
h 119, i 13,345. 
