0?i the tStafist'ics of Dukhun. 



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ed. For the wheat and gram and bread-grains the men got five sheaves 

 per cent. In tlie field of Booee Muong there were between fifty and six- 

 ty women employed; and Ilearned that, in this particular product, from 

 (he labour and tediousness of digging it up, and the cheapness of the pro- 

 duce, the labourers were allowed one-fourth of the whole. In cutting 

 down sugar-cane, gatherino 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§rf.) and a woman four, 

 and they worked from daylight until dark, with an allowance of one 

 hour for dinner. 



The above data are gathered from places widely separated in the Poo- 

 na and Ahmednuggur coUectorates ; and although in diiferent 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 high- 

 est money wages paid by the natives to any husbandry or domestic ser- 

 vant is four rupees per month, with which he finds his own food and 

 clothes, and 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 picet. 



Art'ijicers' and servants' tcages, and price of Bread-grains under the 

 Peshwa' s and British Governments. 



Rates of hire for a montli of tliirty days 

 of artificers, servants, and labourers in 

 Dukhun, under the British govern- 

 ment in !82S, and Peshvva's govern- 

 ment in A. D. 1814. 



Prices of grains, pulses, and other 

 articles, the ordinary consump- 

 tion of artificers, servants, labour- 

 ers, &c. at Poona ia Dukhun, un- 

 der the Peshwa's government, be- 

 in^ a mean of five years from 1811 

 to 1815, and under the British in 

 1828. 



Denomination 

 of 



artificers, servants, 

 &c. 



Monthly Pay. 



Grains, pulses, 

 and 

 other articles 



Seers per Rupee 



Under the 

 British. 



Under the 

 1 Peshwa 



Under the 

 British, 1828. 



Under the 

 Peshwa, 1814. 



Maistry, or head) 



Second or under do. 



Maistry, or head ^ 

 carpenter, finest > 



Rupees. 

 25, 35, 40 



23 &25 

 30, 35, & 45 



Hupees, 

 15 



12 



15, 20,40 



Rice, Putnee .... 

 Dn. Ambemor .. 

 Do, llajawul.,.. 



Wheat, Buckshee 



Seers. 

 16 

 13 

 14 



18 

 20 



32 



Seers. 

 12 



12 



142 2 



211 



Joaree ( Jndro- ; 

 pogon Sorghum) '. 



* About 2 id. 



+ About \%d. 



