1839] 



On tlie Stat'isltcs of Dulclum. 



439 



Day labourers, when paid in cash, get 1| anna per day, or -^^ of two 

 shillings, (about two pence farthing,) supplying themselves with every 

 thing: but day labourers are never paid in money unles when gram is 

 very dear. 



Quantity given.— Iho. most usual plan in harvesting crops is to give 

 each labourer three sheaves of whatever grain he is cutting down ; and 

 provided he ties up the sheaves and stacks them, he gets five sheaves a 

 day. 



Value of Wages in Kind, converted mlo Money. grain in five 



sheaves, in ordinary seasons, auioimts to about two seers. Atthepriceof Baj- 

 ree*, in March 1827, at Nandoor, namely 42 seers per rupee, the value of 

 the labour was one penny and yVo^^^ P^^' "f^a^'eet, at 56 seers per 

 rupee, was _y-ths of a penny per day, or rather more than three farth- 

 ings. Wheat, at 18 seer.s per rupee, would have been two pence y\^-Q, 

 or someihing less than two pence three farthings per day. Allowing the 

 grain in five bundles to be double the quantity stated, which is rather 

 possible than probable, the highest wages in harvesting wheat would 

 not have been five pence halfpenny per diem. When men are employed 

 in ploughing or harrowing, nine times out of ten, they are paid two seers 

 of Bajree for their day's worit, from daylight to night, allowing one hour 

 for dinner. 



At Kanoor. — Xt Kanoor, a town in Jagheer, Ahmednuggur collector- 

 ate, in March 1827, 1 found that the two Pateels had each a permanent 

 domestic servant in his employ ; one paid his man 15 rupees per an- 

 num and his food ; the other gave 15 rupees per annum, food, and five 

 articles of wearing apparel, the value of which was 31 rupees. 



Wages at Dyivaiee.— A.t Dyvvuree, Nuggur coUectorate, in Novem- 

 ber 18^6, the cultivators did not pay their day-labourers in money, but 

 gave them five sheaves of grain for every hundred cut down ; a very able 

 man indeed might cut down two hundred sheaves in a day, which w^ould 

 give him four seers of grain, the value of which (Bijree) in November, 

 1826, was about y^gths of a rupee, or three pence English. 



Wages at Dytna. — At Uytna, Nuggur coUectorate, in February 1827, 

 I found a man getting 25 rupees per annum, his food and a blanket, his 

 son being also in employ at six rupees a year, food and clothes ; but this 

 was looked upon as high, and the individuals getting such wages fortu- 

 nate : the village belonged to a Gosawee % who paid his people well. 



Wages of Women Day Labourers. — At Charabergoondeh, a large town 

 belonging to Seendeh, Nuggur coUectorate, in November 1827, \Yomen 



* Properly, Sujgooreh, Panicum spicatum. 

 + Properly, Jondleh, •Andropo^on Sorghum. 

 X Gosawee, a religieux. 



