pees prevent 
Sanit : ® os 
Denomination o, a Grains, pulses, 28 a3 
° 64 4 g an Sea a 
_ | artificers, servants, &c. be BES other articles, 3 oe 3 g 
se S65 a oe 
5A SH 5e| 53 
Qa 
=) P 5 S 
a i 
ON THE STATISTICS OF DUKHUN. 323 
wheat and gram and bread-grains the men got five sheaves 
per cent. In the field of Booee Moong there were between 
fifty and sixty women employed; and I learned that, in this 
particular product, from the labour and tediousness of digging 
it up, and the cheapness of the produce, the labourers were 
allowed one-fourth of the whole. In cutting down sugar-cane, 
gathering fruits or vegetables, and indeed where the produce 
was too valuable to give the labourer a share of it, the Brahman 
paid a man eight pice a day (little more than 2$d.) and a woman 
four, and they worked from daylight until dark, with an allow- 
ance of one hour for dinner. 
The above data are gathered from places widely separated in 
the Poona and Ahmednuggur collectorates ; and although in dif- 
ferent years, are remarkable in their uniformity ; they supply 
therefore just estimates for the general rates of wages, and it may 
be fairly stated that the highest money wages paid by the natives 
to any husbandry or domestic servant is four rupees per 
month, with which he finds his own food and clothes, and 23'5 
rupees per month is the pay when the master supplies food and 
clothes; and the most favourable wages to a man day-labourer 
are eight pice per diem *, and to a woman five pice f. 
Artificers’ and servants’ wages, and price of Bread-grains 
under the Peshwa’s and British Governments. 
Rates of hire for a month of thirty days| Prices of grains, pulses, and other 
of artificers, servants, and labourers] articles, the ordinary consump- 
in Dukhun, under the British govern-| tion of artificers, servants, la- 
ment in 1828, and Peshwa’s govern-| bourers, &c. at Poona in Duk- 
ment in A.D. 1814. hun, under the Peshwa’s go- 
vernment, being a mean of five 
years from 1811 to 1815, and 
under the British in 1828. 
Monthly Pay. Seers per Rupee, 
| 
Rupees, Rupees. iSeers, rat 
2 
| __|Maistry, or head 25, 35, 40 15 . |Rice, Putnee ......| 16 
. 9 Maistry, or head 
carpenter ...... Do. Ambemor ...| 13 94 
Second orunder do.| 23 & 25 12 Do. Rajawul......| 14 12 
Wheat, Buckshee | 18 1433 
cnrpnte, net} 30, 85, & 45|15,20, 40|/D®  Potee......| 20 
= Joaree (Andro- oe 
xf worker ...... vee pogon S: newb 82 214 
ng a tly 
* About 23d, About 14d, 
xy 2 
