1839] On the Statistics of Dukhun. 191 



ABSTRACT OF THE ABOVE. 



Collectorate or 

 Territory. 



Area, 

 square 

 miles. 



Number 

 ofTowns 

 and Vil- 

 lages, 



Populati- 

 on. 



Aver- 

 age to 



the 

 square 



mile. 



Average to 

 a village 

 for tlie 



ivhole Col- 

 lectorate 



Average 



to a 

 house. 





8281 



1926 



550,-313 



65-45 



67-24 

 3819 



* 247-36 



4-79 





9910 



2488 



663,376 



t 263-47 



4-89 





12.527 



3666 



478,457 



178-39 



3-96 





9122 



2734 



838,757 



9194 



336-7 



4-48 



Southern Jagheer- 



2978 



917 



263,236 



88 39 



287-05 



Not 

 known 



Rajah^ of Sattarah's 



6169 



1703 



488,846 



- 



79-25 



287-05 



Not 

 knovv'n. 





48,987 



:13,434 



3,2S5,985 



67-07 



270 '34 1 



Average number of inhabit-ants to a village for all the coUectorates, 

 270U. 



The above population does not include the army, camp followers^ 

 Bheels, or the wandering tribes. 



It v\^ould appear there are 1279 uninhabited villages in the four col-' 

 lectorates of Dukhun, principally in Khandesh; making a total of 10,814 

 towns and villages in the British possessions, and of 13,434 in the late 

 Peshwah's territories in Dukhun ; exclusive of those belonging to the 

 K olapoor state. 



Total alienated villages in the four coUectorates, 1695|. Total Bri- 

 tish populated villages, 78391 ; total deserted, 1279. Total villages in 

 iht four coUectorates, 10,314. 



Education. 



Education, as a regular system, is certainly unknown amongst the peo- 

 ple in Dukhun. The few schools existing are wholly disproportioned in 

 number to the population; and even were they more numerous, the pre- 

 sent general poverty of the Koonbees,^ and the imperious calls upon 

 them for the services of their children in agriculture, and in attending 

 their cattle, would disable them from letting their children profit by in- 

 struction, even though gratuitous. In a stage of civilization which is by 



* Exclusive of the population of the city of Poona. 



i- Exclusive of the population of the city of Ahmednugsjur. 



% Of this number, 1279 are depopulated, and the depopulated villages of the Southern 

 Snjj'heerdars and Rajah of Sattarah's teivitories are not hnown to me. 

 \ Muhratta cultivators. 



