Statistical Report on the Northern and 



[No. 38, 



es the junction of the Pranheetah, with that river and then proceeds 

 by Sirpore to Chandah in the Nagpore territory. 



The imports into the Nizam's country by these routes are Europe 

 articles of dress and luxury, and China produce, tea, sugar-candy, 

 china ware and silk, raw and manufactured. Of country produce, 

 there are imports of coarse cotton cloths, scarfs, called punchees, 

 table linen, towelling, handkerchieves, coloured and stamped Native 

 cloths, salt, cocoanuts, tobacco, (the tobacco grown in this part of 

 His Highness' dominions being in no great repute,) candles, poul- 

 try and cocoanut oil. The exports consist of madder, the dye of the 

 bastard saffron mostly from Berar, but some is grown at Maiduck, 

 ganjah. opium, wheat, all the produce of Berar or Malwah, jowar- 

 ree moong, toor, and ooreed ; sesamum, and castor oil seeds, gold and 

 silver thread for embroidery, mushroos and kimchobs chiefly from 

 Berar, teak timber, tamarind, lac, assafsetida from Cabool. Buffa- 

 loes, bullocks, sheep and goats, investments consigned to shopkeep- 

 ers at Hydrabad pay no duty on the frontier, the duty being levied 

 at that place in conformity with the terms of the treaty, but duties 

 are levied on the frontier by the Sahyer Officers of the different Sir- 

 cars on goods imported by individuals who have taken cowl from the 

 Nizam's Government at a reduced rate, the difference going to the 

 Talooqdar. This is a fertile source of fraud and smuggling, such im- 

 porters who reside at Hydrabad have agents either at Masulipatam 

 or at Madras or both places. The export duties are levied in the 

 same manner. It is quite impossible to form even an approxima- 

 tive estimate of the value of the imports on account of the numerous 

 frauds practised and other causes already stated, the exports being 

 more under the supervision of the Officers of the Nizam's Govern- 

 ment were roughly valued a few years ago at five lacs and forty 

 thousand Rupees annually ; four lacs through and from the Kum- 

 memmett Sircar, one lac through Nelgoondah, and forty thou- 

 sand through the Palooncha district. Nothing is so vexatious or so 

 injurious to the petty traffic of the country as the constant demand, 

 often by unaccredited Officers, of some trifling tax, in money or kind, 

 for a mangoe from each case, a handful of tamarind, from each bun- 

 dle ; a sheaf of straw from each cart, a whole line of carts is thus stop- 

 ped and much loss of time and spoiling of goods are incurred by the 

 demands of the taxer, and the complaints of the taxed. Jaghe§r and 

 Enam villages are especially obnoxious in this respect. 



There are many fairs held during the dry season throughout th* 



