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The population, inclusive of Sholapoor and Cbeekoree and Munowlee, 

 of the Company's possession in Dukhun, but exclusive of alienated vil- 

 lages, is 2,105,886 souls, and the gross revenue 84,435,245 rupees; 

 equal, therefore, to 4 rupees, 0 qr. 02 reas per head. 



In forming tlie above table, the collectors were good enough to sup- 

 ply the number of villages and cultivators in 1827-28, and the amount 

 of the land revenue was obtained from the Accountant-General's office. 

 In striking the average revenue per village, I have omitted, in the divi- 

 sion of the Dharwar coUectorate, 175 villages, (subsequently reduced to 

 155,) which I found by the population returns lately completed were 

 uninhabited, but parts of whose lands were under cultivation by neigh- 

 bouring villagers, and therefore included by the collector in his list. In 

 Khandesh 330 villages have been struck out under similar circumstances.. 

 In Poona and Ahmednuggur, villages of this class are very limited ia 

 number, and I have, in consequence, not made any deduction on their 

 account. 



To give a fair average of the village revenues in the Foona coUecto- 

 rate, 151,241 rupees, including a share of the customs, have been deduct- 

 ed from the whole revenue for the city of Poona previously to striking 

 the average. The manner in which the Poona capitation tax is struck 

 is as follows 1108 towns and villages sent in population returns, con- 

 taining 331,615 inhabitants, averaging 226 souls and a fraction to a vil- 

 lage. The population of the city of Poona (81,315 inhabitants) being 

 deducted before striking the average ; of these villages 212|are alienat- 

 ed, leaving 895 1 British villages with a population of 283,567, includ- 

 ing Poona. These in 1827-28, yielded a gross revenue of 1,261,^11^ 

 averaging 4 rupees, 1 qr. 78 reas to each pei-son. 



The capitation rate in the Ahmednuggur coUectorate is obtained as 

 follows : In 1827-28, 18771 towns and villages were on the collector's 

 list; they contained 494,669 souls, estimated from the average number 

 of inhabitants to a village, namely, 263*47, struck from the census of 

 1822, to which the present population of the city of Nuggur is to be 

 added, namely, 21,208. The revenue from the coUectorate was. 

 2,033,994 rupees, 3 qr. 78 reas; equal, therefore, to 3 rupees, 3 qr. 77 

 reas per head. 



In Dharwar the averages have the following elements : — in 1827-28, 

 2279 British towns and villages produced a revenue of 2,421,516 rupees, 

 1 qr. 39 reas. This included the villages, revenue, and population of 

 the Talooks of Cheekoree and Munowlee, received from the Kolapoor 

 state; population returns were not received, from these Talooks j their 



