1849.] 



Circar of Wanmgul. 



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The ofBcers employed in the collection are, a Circar naib under 

 the Talookdar Sumboo Persaud, who has under him eight inferior 

 naibs — who, assisted by a peshcar, superintend the collection of one 

 or two pergunnahs each, and render their reports and collections to the 

 Circar naib who resides at Hunnumcondah. 



The grain rents are stored in granaries in the forts of villages, and 

 sales are effected according to circumstances to Bunnyas of the 

 country or to the same class, residents of Hyderabad, or agents sent 

 from thence. The exchange on Hyderabad is usually one per cent, 

 against the Circar, although the halee sicca be more valuable than 

 any of the rupees current there. The sowcars giving as a reason 

 that they have the expense of transporting the halee sicca rupee to 

 Hyderabad, which is very seldom the case. The hoondees are com- 

 monly at nine days' sight. 



The present minister proposes giving the Talookdars or Zillahdars 

 a fixed salary, but the practice that has hitherto prevailed through- 

 out the Nizam's country has been to give an allowance of two annas 

 on the rupee to the Talookdar on whatever collections he may make, 

 but from this sum he is expected to support the whole of the civil 

 expenses including peons. The inferior officers employed in the col- 

 lection are sheristadars, usually Brahmins, who are accountants and 

 attached to the lesser naibs — and havildars who collect the revenue 

 of one or more villages. The salary of the Circar naib is rupees 

 200 a month — of the deputy naib rupees 40 to rupees 50. Of the 

 peshcar rupees 20 to rupees 25 — and of the havildars and sherista- 

 dars rupees 10 to rupees 12. 



There is also a head peshcar or surduftur with a salary of ru- 

 pees 60 per month, and a sursheristadar with rupees 60 who receives 

 his accounts from the lesser sheristadar as the surduftur, who re- 

 sides at Hunnumcondah attached to the Circar naib, receives the ac- 

 counts from the inferior peshcars. 



The havildars are paid in the araanee villages — that is the vil- 

 lages under the immediate superintendence of Government by the ta- 

 lookdar — but in villages where there is a middle man they often re- 

 ceive the share of the extinct Patell whose place they occupy. The 

 sheristadar is paid by a small contribution from each village. 



The Circar naib is a Mussulman, the deputy naibs Mussulmen 

 and Hindoos, mostly all the other inferior functionaries engaged in 

 collecting the revenue are Hindoos. Such are the officers and the 

 mode of collection of the revenue. A vamping up of the old Hindoo 



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