1850.] 



Sircar of Pfttm. 



263 



Bcdndoorwarra. 



The kusbah town of the Purgunnah, and situated 16 miles north- 

 west of Pytun, upon the right bank of the Gunda river. It is a well 

 built town, with a handsome stone Ghaut. The streets within are 

 exceedingly filthy, and swarm with swine. There is a weekly mar- 

 ket every Wednesday, and a large fair in December for cloth and 

 grain — all the villages of this Purgunnah are of little note — surround- 

 ing country is undulating : land principally occupied with wheat, baj- 

 ree, and jowarree ; renting from one Rupee to two Rupees and a 

 quarter a beegha. 



Houses. — Brick with one story 12, mud brick walls, and tiled roofs 

 161, mud walls, and thatched roofs 33, Bunnya shops 26, males 

 843, females 353. 



Dhawunvarree. 



The kusba town of the Purgunnah lies ten miles northward of Py- 

 tun, on the banks of a mountain stream upon the high road from 

 Jaulnah to Ahmednuggur. This town as well as the whole of the 

 villages under it, are in a dilapidated condition. The records of the 

 Purgunnah are kept at Nandoor for better security. 



Houses. — Mud brick walls, and tiled or terraced roofs 45, mud 

 walls and thatched roofs 61, Bunnya shops 9, males 338, and female s 

 267. 



Population. 



The census from actual ascertainments obtained, and returned by 

 the Putwarees from each village throughout the Sircar, amounts to 

 32,015 in which are included the inhabitants of the city of Pytun, 

 alone computed at 1 1,572. In many portions of the district large tracts 

 of land are lying waste and barren, and consequently uninhabitable ; 

 in calculating the ratio of the population to the square mile, so that 

 the relative degree of density may be correctly ascertained, it wil 1 

 be necessary therefore to exclude from the statement the amount of 

 surface so situated, which in this instance amounts to 1,32,970 bee- 

 ghas, or upwards of 95 square British miles. 



The distribution of the population will therefore be 77 inhabi. 

 tants to the square mile generally, or 101 to the square mile of in- 

 habitable surface. 



It must be observed that the above mentioned computation doe« 

 not comprehend the alienated estates held by Sciudeah, equal t 0 

 about a thirteenth of the whole area, so that when the returns are 



