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Statistical Report on the 



[No. 35, 



syjstem, — the functions of the Talooktlar, naib, deputy naib and 

 havildar being those formerly exercised by tlie Surdeshmookh, Desh- 

 mookh, and Patell. The surduftur, peshcar, he. answering to the 

 Surdeshpundya and Deshpundya — yet in name and in possession 

 of certain rights the old Hindoo officers remain. The whole is a ruin 

 with tlie parts standing ill-patched — having for a parallel what we see 

 in the desolate city of Warungul— gates that give entrance to no tem- 

 ple, and pillars that support no roof, meet representatives of Hin- 

 doo Zemindars who exist for self aggrandizement alone — while the 

 mosque formed from the desecrated and ruined temple, with here and 

 there a pillar of a different stone and of far inferior execution to what 

 it is designed to imitate — and Hindoo shrines built up hastily and 

 without taste or order, are no unfit emblems of the modern functiona- 

 ries as they now^ exist. 



The land customs and transit duties are under the sahyer naib 

 who receives 40 rupees a month, with inferior collectors at each 

 masool chokee. 



The number of these in the Circar is no less than 

 Chokees. forty-four, and the sum carried to government on 



account of land and transit duties only rupees 14,251. The accounts 

 of the sahyer are very complicated— and it is with some difficulty 

 that they have been reduced to the form in the Appendix. A revi- 

 sion of the land and transit duties is now in progress and some of them 

 have been abolished or modified. Nothing can be more vexatious 

 than the manner in which they have been exacted. 



For the carriage of salt to Hyderabad certain parties receive per- 

 mits at different rates. Some of the more deserving and respectable, if 

 Buch terms be applicable, of the brinjaries are permitted to pass 

 their goods at a more favorable rate than others, on condition that 

 they take certain roads to avoid collision with others of a different 

 caste, for bloody quarrels have often been the result of such meet- 

 ings. 



There are no fairs of any great importance in 

 the Circar, but still considerable gatherings, when 

 the season has been favorable, take place. 



1st. Ainool, in the Vizianuggur pergunna, where the Dhungeers 

 swing with a hook fixed in their backs before their god Molenna — the 

 Kundooba of the Mahrattas— and for the privilege of torturing them- 

 selves they pay a fine to government according to their means. 



