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Statistics of the Sircar Yelyunthul. 



[No. 39, 



for the benefit of his household ; in the Racherla, Korutla and Po- 

 lass Purgimnahs some do however, and work honestly and well ; 

 of the Hindoos, the Koonbees, Moonoorwars, Gullawars, and Dhers 

 follow husbandry as their means of livelihood ; the majority of Koon- 

 bees are ryots, labouring on their land and employing their poorer 

 caste men. The Moonoorwars devote themselves entirely to this 

 pursuit. Gullawars are a section of the shepherd caste who be- 

 sides possessing cattle, labour as an additional means of subsist- 

 ence. The Dhers are also willing to labour, but are not invited until 

 those with more pretensions to sanctity are engaged. Women take 

 their share of out-door work especially when crops are growing, 

 the light labour of weeding and thinning being performed by them, 

 they likewise assist in cutting and always winnow the grain ; they 

 are all drawn from the Moonoorwars, Gullawars and Dhers, the 

 wives of Koonbees never work in the field, but occupy themselves 

 in domestic affairs, and are cleanly and industrious. 



Men labourers are usually engaged from day to day and receive 

 as remuneration, at the rate of two seers each of paddy per diem, 

 when working in the rice fields ; and for dry- cultivation, one seer 

 and a half of jooaree ; should they remain with their employers 

 a full year, a cumlee and a pair of sandals is given to them, and 

 sometimes a present of grain. In some Purgunnahs — there is a 

 slight variation from what is here laid down — for instance in the 

 Talook, Kutcoor, Nizambad and one or two others, the coolie in- 

 stead of two seers of grain per diem gets one, with salt, onions and 

 chillies, sufficient for a meal \ women are always paid in money 

 and receive two pies a day. 



where it commences to form the Northern boundary of the Sircar, 

 to the point it leaves it, is given in the Geographical Memoir, to 

 which reference is made. It will be sufficient to notice here that 

 its course is extremely tortuous, running with a general direction 

 towards the East through the country for sixty-one and three quarter 

 miles from Rampoorum to Thurmavarum, the distance between 

 these places by the road being forty-seven miles, the average breadth 



Water Rivers. 



The rivers of the Sircar are the Godavery, and 

 Munar ; a minute description of the former from 



