1849.] 



Circar of WarunguL 



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having |)een erected seventy or eiglity years ago, by a very power- 

 ful noble Zuffur-ood Dowlah, to overawe the refractory zemindars. 

 It has a stone wall, a ditch, and bastions surmounted pieces of 

 cannon, some of them of great size. It has a garrison, nominally 

 of three hundred men, but their place is supplied by about fifty 

 ill armed and coarsely dressed pyaders. 



The population returns, allowing fifty inhabitants 

 Population. „ , Vi -n i i t • n 



for each Corwa village, and an addition of two 



thousand for the Woodewars, Yerkulwars, &c. give 41 inhabitants to 



the square mile, a low average which is accounted for by the vast 



wastes of the Pakhall and Sumthamonyam pergunnahs, which occupy 



nearly half the area of the Circar. Rejecting the Corwa villages, 



there are in the Circar 501 inhabited villages, with an average of 257 



inhabitants to each village, and 4-71 for each house. 



There are 5030 Musselmen in the Circar, giving an average of 

 about four per cent, to the Hindoo population. The cotton cleaners 

 and carpet weavers are Mahometans. 



There are no registers kept of births or deaths in this Circar. It is 

 thus impossible to furnish any statistics of the rate of increase of po- 

 pulation or of mortality, 



I need not here repeat other particulars that may be found in the 

 general summary, which gives, I believe, a true picture of the pre- 

 sent condition of the Circar. 



It was my intention to have endeavoured to have given a rough 

 estimate of the land presently assessed in beegahs, or acres, using 

 for data the quantity of seed sown, and the amount of money rent 

 collected, but the conflicting statements I received of the proportion 

 of seed required for sowing a given space, and the constantly var}^- 

 ing rent according to the quality of the ground, have induced me to 

 abandon the attempt, which I do with little regret, seeing how pro- 

 fitless and without value, in the absence of an accurate revenue sur- 

 vey, any such estimate would be. 



The gross revenue may be thus summed up : 

 Revenue derived from Land, Shop, and House Rent, es. a. 



KuUalee, &c. ~ . 2,70,958 8 2 



Sahyer, 14^251 0 0 



Zemindars, &c. allowances, 15 per cent, deductions from 



the Government collections, ----- 40,643 11 2 



Total Rupees. .3,25,853 3 4 



