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in former days can be formed from the number of the vineyards. 

 Daulatabad contained no fewer than 200 vineyards, excluding private 

 gardens. The country between Aurangabad and Chikalthana (sixteen 

 miles east of Daulatabad) contained another hundred vineyards. From 

 Kannar, thirty- five miles north of Daulatabad, to Jalna, forty miles east, 

 fruit gardening was a common occupation. But it is an incontestable fact 

 that at home the " Jawari " has taken the place of the fruit-tree, although 

 the cuttings of Daulatabad have given birth to extensive vineyards at Nasik, 

 Poona, and Bangalore, where they occupy miles of land and give enormous 

 returns. There are now only two gardens, owned by Jiwa and Chimman, left 

 in Daulatabad which produce Grapes. Even these two are about to be sold 

 because of the poverty of the owners. It is entirely due to the generosity 

 of Nawab Basheer Nawaz Jung Bahadur that these two men can go on 

 with their work. The famous " Habshi " is extinct there now, and the 



