statistical Report on the 



[No. 35, 



assigned a small personal jagheer of Eupees 4,600 in the pergun-- 

 na Telpcondah, and to another man of family Meer Ashnck Hoos- 

 sain Alle, a village called "Woolundee in the same pergunna, yield- 

 ing Eupees 2,410. Two peerjadas have enam villages— the one^ 

 Idutshah Durwesh, has four in the Havellee pergunna, which 

 yields him Eupees 3,618, and another Hoossain Badshah has five 

 villages in the united pergunnas of Kotaguttoo, Katachpoor, yield- 

 ing Eupees 4,812. The kazeehirky has two villages assigned him 

 jdelding Eupees 1,505, and a lady Luteef Begum, a small village 

 called Luteef Begum, in pergunna Yelpcondah. All these sums 

 are according to the koolkamil assessment, and their accuracy is 

 not to be relied on. 



Throughout this part of Telingana the village system prevails, 

 but there does not seem to be that staunch adherence to the chief 

 village officer and his family, the Patell, which exists elsewhere, 

 as in Malwa, where a Patell to a village is as necessary as a 

 queen bee to the hive. The simple usurpation by force or fraud 

 of the Pat ell's rights by the Deshmooks and Deshpundyas does 

 not thoroughly explain this, for at one period Malwa was the 

 most lawless country in India, where such rights would have been 

 usurped without scruple if they could have been maintained. A 

 concurrent cause must therefore be sought for, which will explain 

 how the ryots acceded to the spoliation of their chief, and it may 

 be found in the necessity that exists in Telingana, on the occur-- 

 rence of a bad season, of the population abandoning their villages 

 to seek sustenance elsewhere. Owing to this the tie to their 

 patell would necessarily be relaxed, and the Deshmookh or Desh- 

 pundya would be regarded as the village, as well as the district 

 head, and would be tacitly permitted to assume the rights of the 

 patell on performing his duties. 



^ . ^ Surdeshmookh and Surdeshpundya. It has 



been already mentioned that one family of Sur- 

 deshmookhs and one of Surdeshpundyas existed in the circar of 

 "Warungul. 



Their supremacy however is nominal, as neither the one or the 

 other exert any controul over the class of Deshmookhs or Desh- 

 pundyahs, or derive any pecuniary advantage from their position. 

 It may be presumed however that such claims once existed, not so 

 much from the present Surdeshmookh's attempting to revive the 



